Saryu Rai (born July 16, 1951, Khanita, Buxar, Bihar, India) is an Indian politician from Bihar and Jharkhand. He was a minister in the Government of Jharkhand from 2014 to 2019 under Chief Minister Raghubar Das, holding Parliamentary Affairs and Food, Public Distribution and Consumer Affairs. He left the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2019, held Jamshedpur East as an independent from 2019 to 2024, and has represented Jamshedpur West since November 2024 for the Janata Dal (United), which he joined in August 2024. He is elected to Jharkhand assembly in December 2014 from Jamshedpur-West assembly constituency for the second time after defeating his nearest rival Banna Gupta by a margin of over 10,000 votes. He was first elected as an MLA from Jamshedpur-West seat in 2005. He lost the 2009 assembly seat by a narrow margin of around 3000 votes to the then INC candidate Banna Gupta. Prior to this, in the undivided Bihar he served as an MLC for a six-year term from 1998 to 2004.

Early Life

Saryu Roy was born on July 16, 1951 in a middle class farmer family in a small village named ‘Khanita’ in Itahi Block of erstwhile Shahabad district in Bihar.His father Late Keshaw Prasad Rai did not have formal education and mother Late Sukhwasi Devi was a housewife, not literate at all. He has five sisters all except one are elder to him, besides a younger brother, Yamuna Rai who looks after ancestral farming in the village.He completed his high school education up to class XI at Block Headquarter Itarhi and was awarded National Merit Scholarship after passing matriculation exam conducted by Bihar School Examination Board in 1966. He is a graduate in Physics from Science college, Patna.He also holds a master’s degree in the same subject with Spectroscopy as special paper from Patna University in 1970-72 batch.

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