Manharan Lal Pandey (27 October 1938 - 21 January 2013) was an Indian Politician and

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

representing Janjgir constituency of

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(now in

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) in

11th Lok Sabha General elections were held in India in 1996 Indian general election, April–May 1996 to elect the members of the 11th Lok Sabha. The result of the election was a hung parliament, which would see three Prime Ministers in two years and force t ...

. He was a member of the

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 ...

Career

Pandey was first elected to

Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha or the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly is the unicameral state legislature of Madhya Pradesh state in India. The seat of the Vidhan Sabha is at Bhopal, the capital of the state. It is housed in the ''Vidhan ...

in 1967 from Takhatpur on

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ticket and became

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for Electricity. In 1972 Election, he lost the seat to Congress Party but won 1977 election on

Janata Party The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian Nati ...

ticket and became

Kailash Chandra Joshi Kailash Chandra Joshi (14 July 1929 – 24 November 2019)Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha (4 March 1930 – 31 May 1999) was an Indian politician who served as the 10th Chief Minister Of Madhya Pradesh from 18 January 1978 to 19 January 1980. He was a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He hailed from Mandsa ...

ministry. Again, he lost 1980 election but won 1985, 1990 and 1993 election consecutively. He was elected to 11th

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in 1996 but lost 1998 General election to

Charan Das Mahant Charan Das Mahant (born 13 December 1954) is an Indian politician from Indian National Congress who serves as the Speaker of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly. He was the member of the Indian Parliament, representing Korba constituency. He ...

of Congress by margin of 44,586 votes.

References

India MPs 1996–1997 1938 births Living people Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Chhattisgarh Lok Sabha members from Chhattisgarh People from Janjgir-Champa district People from Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1967–1972 Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1977–1980 Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1985–1990 Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1990–1992 Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1993–1998 Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University alumni {{Chhattisgarh-BJP-politician-stub