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Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo

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(born 6 August 1941), the scion of Dhenkanal is a former Member of Parliament and a retired Indian Territorial Army officer. He was a member of the 4th,

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, 10th, 11th and

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. He was first elected to

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in 1967 representing

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Details

Political career

K.P. Singh Dev is the son of the late Shankar Pratap Singh Dev, the last Raja of Dhenkanal. In the 1967 Lok Sabha elections, he stood as a candidate for the

and was elected from the Dhenkanal constituency of

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. Aged 25, he was among the youngest MPs elected that year. From 1967 until 1970, he served as chief whip for the party in the Lok Sabha. By 1980, he had transferred his allegiance to the

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. He was the president of the Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee.

Military career

Singh Dev was commissioned a Territorial Army second lieutenant in the

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on 1 June 1971. He was awarded

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(AVSM) in 1994. He was

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to the President of India. Upon reaching retirement age, he was promoted colonel on 30 August 1995, and retired the following day. On 10 October 1997, he was granted the honorary rank of brigadier. He contested in the General Election 2019 as an

candidate from Dhenkanal . Not only did he get defeated in that election, he also lost election deposit.

Dates of rank

References

External links

Members of 13th Lok Sabha - Parliament of India website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Deo, Kamakhya Prasad Singh Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Odisha Indian National Congress politicians from Odisha India MPs 1967–1970 India MPs 1980–1984 India MPs 1984–1989 India MPs 1991–1996 India MPs 1996–1997 India MPs 1999–2004 1941 births Living people Swatantra Party politicians Lok Sabha members from Odisha Rajya Sabha members from Odisha Ministers for Information and Broadcasting of India People from Dhenkanal Indian Army officers Indian military personnel of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971