Amarjeet Kushwaha

Amarjeet Kushwaha was brought up in the Siwan district of Bihar.[5] He attended the M.M.M. PG College, Bhatparrani, Deoria and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree.[6] Later he got a graduation for a second time with a Bachelor of Laws degree from Gorakhpur University.[5] Kushwaha is married to Maya Devi.[7]

During his course in Gorakhpur University, Kushwaha joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation. After completing his course in Uttar Pradesh, he returned to Siwan as a party activist.[5] In Siwan, Kushwaha became an activist for farmer's and dalit's rights and stepped to intervene to assure protection of the rights of Dalits when in 2013 upper caste landlords of the region attempted to attack them with the help from a Bhartiya Janata Party MLA.[8] He was reported to have become a rival of Mohammad Shahabuddin due to his activism.[9] He has been involved in agitations for poor farmers in getting possession of their land.[10]

In 2007, he became the state president of the Revolutionary Youth Association and then its national president in 2010. He was elected to the state committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation in 2012.[5] He was also nominated to contest the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election from the Ziradei constituency.[11] Following the nomination, he was arrested in the case of a land dispute and later released in 2016. It was alleged that the arrest had been made on the behest of Mohammad Shahabuddin.[2][8][12] During the 2019 Indian general election, Kushwaha worked for the campaign of Amarnath Yadav in the Siwan constituency.[13]