Gopal Kalan Tandel (born 5 August 1953) is an Indian politician.Lok Sabha.

' He was a Member of Parliament in the

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(elected in 1987) and 1996-1998 in

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. He was the first parliamentarian to represent Daman and Diu (Lok Sabha constituency) in the

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. He has been part of

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Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

, and currently

Early life and education

Gopal Kalan Tandel is the son of Kalan Bijia Tandel. He studied at the

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, obtaining a B.Com. degree. He served as the president of the Daman Municipal Council between 1984 and 1986.

Daman and Diu by-election

After Daman and Diu were separated from

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and given Union Territory status of its own, a by-election for a new Lok Sabha constituency was held on 7 November 1987. Tandel won the seat, defeating the independent candidate

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.Election Commission of India.
Bye-election results 1952-95
' Tandel had stood as an

candidate and obtained 17,027 votes. He lost the Daman and Diu seat in the 1989 Lok Sabha election. He stood as an Indian National Congress candidate, finishing second with 13,807 votes (37.79%). He stood as an independent in the election for the Daman and Diu seat in the 1991 Lok Sabha election. He finished in second place with 9,808 votes (25.85%). He regained the Daman and Diu seat in the 1996 Lok Sabha election, standing as an Indian National Congress candidate. He obtained 24,543 votes (50.62% of the votes in the constituency). He resigned from the Indian National Congress on 26 December 1997, along with three other parliamentarians. He joined the

on 20 January 1998, along with B.P. Maurya and

Mohanbhai Sanjibhai Delkar Mohan Sanjibhai Delkar (19 December 1962 – 22 February 2021) was an Indian politician and tribal rights advocate, who was elected seven times as a member of Lok Sabha from Dadra and Nagar Haveli constituency, in the Union Territory of Dadra ...

. On 15 March 2004 the Central Election Committee of BJP declared Tandel as its candidate in the Daman and Diu seat in the 2004 Lok Sabha election. He finished in second place with 26,916 votes. Tandel contested the 2009 Lok Sabha election as a

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candidate. He got 2,144 votes (3.15%) in the Daman and Diu constituency. As of 2011 he was the president of the NCP unit in Daman.Collector, Daman and Diu.
Meeting 30-09 2011
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References

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