Gondia
Gondia (also spelled Gondiya) is a city and municipal council in the Indian state of Maharashtra which serves the administrative headquarters of the eponymous administrative district. Gondia is also known as ''Rice City'' due to the abundance ...
Lok Sabha constituency was a
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-p ...
(Parliamentary) constituency of
Maharashtra state in western
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
. This constituency was in existence during Lok Sabha elections of 1962 for the
3rd Lok Sabha
List of Members of the 3rd Lok Sabha, (2 April 1962 – 3 March 1967) elected February–March 1962. The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the Parliament of India. The election was held for 494 seats out of which Indian nati ...
. It was abolished from next 1967 Lok Sabha elections. It was reserved for Scheduled Caste candidate.
Members of the Parliament
*1952-1961: ''Constituency does not exist''
*1962:
Balkrishna Ramchandra Wasnik
Balkrishna Ramchandra Wasnik (12 August 1929 – 10 September 2015) was an Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress.
Political career
In 1957, at the age of 28 he was elected in the Bhandara lok sabha constituency. He was ...
,
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British E ...
(as Gondia (SC) ( Constituency no 34 of Maharashtra State ) )
*1967 onwards: ''Constituency does not exist''
''See
Bhandara Lok Sabha constituency''
See also
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Bhandara-Gondiya Lok Sabha constituency ( 2009 elections of
15th Lok Sabha
Members of the 15th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2009 general election in India. It was dissolved on 18 May 2014 by President Pranab Mukherjee.
Indian National Congress-led United Progressive Alliance won 44 more seats than the previou ...
onwards)
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Bhandara Lok Sabha constituency ( 1951 to 2004 elections for
1st to
14th Lok Sabha
The 14th Lok Sabha (17 May 2004 – 18 May 2009) was convened after the 2004 Indian general election held in four phases during 20 April – 10 May 2004, which led to the formation of first Manmohan Singh ministry (2004–2009). Indian Nation ...
)
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Chimur Lok Sabha constituency
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List of former constituencies of the Lok Sabha
This is a list of former constituencies of the Lok Sabha of India, organised by date of abolition. It does not include constituencies which were merely renamed.
Constituencies abolished in 1956
Bombay (2)
The constituencies came into existence ...
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Gondia district
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Bhandara district
Bhandara District (Marathi pronunciation: ʰəɳɖaːɾa is an administrative district in the state of Maharashtra in India. The district headquarters are located at Bhandara. The district occupies an area of 3717 km2 and has a population o ...
References
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Former constituencies of the Lok Sabha
Former Lok Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra
1967 disestablishments in India
Constituencies disestablished in 1967
1962 establishments in Maharashtra