won the seat four times, in 1962, 1967, 1977, and 1980. Damodar Pandey of Congress won it in 1984. Yadunath Pandey of BJP won it in 1989. Bhubneshwar Prasad Mehta of CPI won the seat in 1991 and in 2004. Mahabir Lal Viswakarma of BJP won the seat in 1996. Yashwant Sinha of BJP won the seat in 1998 and went on to become Finance Minister and later Foreign Minister in the NDA government. He also won the seat in the 2009 Lok Sabha Elections. Bhubneshwar Prasad Mehta of the Communist Party of India won the seat in 2004 with the help of seat-sharing of the UPA. Jayant Sinha, a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the son of former Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha, won the Lok Sabha elections in 2014, defeating the closest rival Saurabh Narayan Singh of the Indian National Congress by a huge margin of 1,59,128 votes. A scion of the erstwhile kingdom of Ramgarh Raj; Rajkumar Udaybhan Narain Singh is the director of J.I.A.D.A. and is a senior member of Bhartiya Janta Party, he has a stronghold over this area. Transportation The nearest international airport is Birsa Munda Airport Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand, (). Ranchi is connected with Bengaluru, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kolkata and Patna by regular flights. A new long railway line has been constructed from Koderma-Hazaribagh-Barkakana line and became operational in February 2015. Two trains run between and Hazaribagh Town railway station (not to be confused with Hazaribagh Road railway station). The railway line from Hazaribagh to Barkakana Junction has been completed and the trains are running from Hazaribagh to Barkakana. Hazaribagh is situated on NH 33 and the road distances to major cities are: Ranchi , Dhanbad (via GT road), Bokaro (via Ramgarh), Gaya , Patna , Daltonganj , and Kolkata (via Dhanbad-Asansol-Govindapur-Bardhaman) . Regular bus service connects Hazaribagh to these places. Notable residents A. E. J. Collins (18 August 1885 – 11 November 1914) - held the record for the highest score in cricket (628 not out) for 116 years Subodh Ghosh - journalist and writer, born at Hazaribagh in 1909; also studied at St. Columba's College Raj Kumar Gupta - Film Director, born & educated in Hazaribagh. Bulu Imam - environmental activist, Gandhi International Peace Award Recipient, 2011 Tapen Sen - judge in the Calcutta High Court Yashwant Sinha - Indian politician and a former finance minister