Dulu Mahato (also spelled Dhullu Mahto; born 12 May 1975) is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He represented the Baghmara assembly seat for three terms from 2009 and was elected to the Lok Sabha from Dhanbad, Jharkhand, in 2024.
Dulu Mahato
Dhullu Mahto
12 May
Tundu Chitahi, Dhanbad District, Jharkhand, India
Politician (Lok Sabha MP, Dhanbad)
Savitri Devi (m. 1999)
2009–present
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (since 2024)
Dhanbad, Jharkhand
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Married
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Mahato was first elected MLA from Baghmara in 2009 on a Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) ticket. He later joined the BJP and retained the seat in 2014 and 2019.
In the 2024 general election the BJP fielded him from Dhanbad. He polled 7,89,172 votes and defeated Congress candidate Anupama Singh by 3,31,583 votes.
In October 2019 a Dhanbad court convicted Mahato and five others in a 2013 case of freeing a person from police custody and sentenced them to 18 months in jail; a special MP/MLA court upheld the sentence in August 2022, and the Jharkhand High Court subsequently granted him bail in the case. Other criminal cases against him are pending in court; the BJP has said these cases are sub judice and that he is not a criminal.
In April 2024 the Jharkhand High Court dismissed a petition seeking an SIT probe into his assets. In 2025 the Supreme Court issued notice on a plea seeking such a probe; no final ruling on that plea has been reported.
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