Lakhan Lal Dewangan (born 12 April 1962) is an

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serving as Minister of Commerce And Industry, Labour in

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and represents Korba as MLA. He is former Parliamentary secretary (

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rank) in

. On 29 September 2020, he was appointed as Vice President of

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Political career

Lakhan Lal Dewangan was first elected as Mayor of Korba Municipal Corporation in 2005. On 8 December 2013, Dewangan became

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from Katghora Constituency by defeating Bodhram Kanwar of

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, a six term MLA from same seat by 13,130 votes and became Parliamentary secretary (

rank) for Food, Civil Supply, Consumer Protection, Village Industry, Planning, Economic and Statistics in

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. Again, Dewangan contested the 2018 Assembly election against Purushottam Kanwar (INC) for

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but lost to Kanwar by 11,511 votes.http://election.cg.nic.in/trmsacelection2018/resultacelection.aspx In the 2023 Assembly election, he was fielded from Korba against 3 term MLA and incumbent Revenue Minister

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and defeated him by huge margin of 25,629 votes and was sworn in as Cabinet Minister in Vishnudeo Sai ministry.

References

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