Chandrasekhar Mishra

Chandrasekhar Mishra died on Wednesday 28 October 2026 in Jamshedpur. According to the BJP and local reports, he fell ill with chest pain as he was leaving home for a foundation stone laying ceremony in Chhayanagar. Family members and party workers took him to a local doctor and then towards Tata Motors Hospital, but he died before he could be saved. Dainik Jagran and other local papers reported the cause as a heart attack. PTI and Dainik Jagran gave his age as 78; Hindustan reported 72.

MP Bidyut Baran Mahato, Jamshedpur East MLA Purnima Das Sahu, city BJP president Sanjeev Sinha and hundreds of party workers gathered at the hospital. Former chief ministers Raghubar Das and Arjun Munda and MLA Saryu Roy issued condolences. His funeral procession was due to leave his home at 11am on 29 October for cremation at the Swarnarekha burning ghat in Bhuiyandih.

Little has been published about Chandrasekhar Mishra's birth and family background. Former Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das said Mishra had been his classmate and that the two had worked together for the party since their teenage years, which places his political involvement in the Jana Sangh and BJP tradition from a young age. Dainik Jagran described him as having been a Jan Sanghi all his life.

Mishra spent his working life as an organizer for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. He rose through the city organization and served as president of the BJP's Jamshedpur Mahanagar committee, the party's city unit. He did not hold high elected office, but was regarded as one of the party's senior figures in the city and continued to attend party programmes into his late seventies.

He was also prominent in community life in the Bhalubasa area, serving as president of the Basti Vikas Samiti, a neighbourhood development committee, and of the Bhalubasa Sheetla Mandir committee, which manages a local temple. Reports said he was associated with a number of other religious and social organizations.

Mishra lived at Indranagar in Bhalubasa, Jamshedpur. His son Naveen Mishra spoke to local media about the circumstances of his death. Other details of his family life have not been made public.

Mishra is remembered as a grassroots organizer who gave decades to the BJP in Jamshedpur and to the civic and religious life of his neighbourhood. Arjun Munda called his death an irreparable loss to the BJP family and said his dedication and service to the organization would always be remembered.