Mathura Prasad Pal (3 January 1946 – 22 July 2017) was an Indian politician and a member of

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (Hindi: ''Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha'') is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Uttar Pradesh. There are 403 seats in the house filled by direct election using a single-member first-past-the-p ...

. He represented the Sikandra assembly constituency of

Kanpur Dehat Kanpur Dehat district is a district in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. The administrative headquarters of the district are at Mati- Akbarpur. This district is part of Kanpur division. Kanpur was formerly spelled Cawnpore. History The s ...

district.

Political career

He was elected for the first time in 1991 from Sarvankhera assembly constituency of

district as the

Janata Dal Janata Dal (“People’s Party”) was an List of political parties in India, Indian political party which was formed through the merger of Janata Party factions, the Lok Dal, Indian National Congress (Jagjivan), and the Jan Morcha united on 11 ...

candidate and a second time in 1996 as 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 ...

candidate. In the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, Pal defeated his close contestant Mahendra Katiyar of the

Bahujan Samaj Party The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is a national level political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans (literally means "community in majority"), referring to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes (OBC), alon ...

with a margin of 38,103 votes and became a member of the

for the third time. Pal died on 22 July 2017 of cancer.

Posts held

References

1946 births 2017 deaths Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2017–2022 Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh People from Kanpur Dehat district {{UttarPradesh-BJP-politician-stub