Nayagram (ST) in Jhargram district is currently represented by Dulal Murmu of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. In the 2021 election, he secured 1,00,903 votes (about 52per cent), defeating BJP’s Bakul Murmu, who polled 78,149 votes (around 41per cent), giving him a comfortable winning margin of 22,754 votes. A Scheduled Tribe–reserved seat carved out of the forested “Junglemahal” belt, Nayagram’s key issues centre on Adivasi livelihoods and basic services: secure land and forest rights, minor irrigation for paddy and vegetables, and better prices and storage for small farmers and forest‑produce gatherers. Road connectivity from remote villages to Block HQ Nayagram and to Jhargram/Medinipur, expansion of government health centres, and residential schooling and hostels for ST students remain persistent demands. Historically a CPI(M) stronghold under leaders like Bhutnath Saren and Ananta Saren, Nayagram shifted decisively to TMC with Dulal Murmu’s wins in 2011, 2016 and 2021, signalling a durable realignment of tribal support. The constituency falls under the Jhargram Lok Sabha seat, now held by TMC MP Kalipada Soren, who won the 2024 general election by over 1.7 lakh votes, aligning Assembly and parliamentary representation in this sensitive border‑forest region.