Lok Nath Mahato
Loknath Mahato was a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the state of Jharkhand, India, elected from constituency Barka-gaon (Gaon means village) which is in the Hazaribagh district of the state. He was first elected in 1995. Since then he has been re-elected for three times, representing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), one of the main national parties of India. He is one of the contenders in the 17 April 2014 Loksabha election from the state party called AJSU.He is also popular partly thanks to his wife Molani Devi who is self-employed as an independent grocer, something uncommon in present day India for a wife of high-profile figure.