Former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Anand Mishra has made a stunning political debut by winning the Buxar seat in the recently concluded Bihar Assembly elections. He contested on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket after switching from Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj Party in August. He defeated Congress candidate Sanjay Kumar Tiwari by a margin of over 28,000 votes. He was a 2011-batch officer, who previously served in the Assam–Meghalaya cadre. He resigned from the police service in January 2024.

Born on June 1, 1981, in Bihar's Bhojpur, Mishra completed his schooling and college education in Kolkata. He holds a master’s degree in Police Management from Osmania University. Mishra initially served in the West Bengal Civil Service from 2005 to 2010 before successfully clearing the U

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