Shankar Pratap Singh Bundela belongs to village Basari block Rajnagar, which was his former Estate under Madhya Pradesh. He is popularly known as Munna Raja.

Political career

He joined the

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in the year 1972 and has been a member ever since. Elected from

Chhatarpur Chhatarpur is a city and a municipality in Chhatarpur district in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Chhatarpur District. Chhatarpur is a city and a municipality in Chhatarpur district in the state of ...

, Madhya Pradesh, he has been a Member of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly twice. From the year 1980 to 1985 and 1993 to 1998. He went on to become the president of M.P. State Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank in 1997 and again in the year 2002. In 2003, he became the Vice-President of National Co-operative Bank Federation, New Delhi. Contested

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from Rajnagar Constituency of Madhya Pradesh with

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Social life

Since 1997, he has been continuously organising '

Bundeli Festival Bundeli Utsav (Bundeli Festival) is a cultural festival to promote the Bundeli (Bundelkhandi) folk arts, held in village Basari, tehsil Rajnagar, District Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh, India, every year during the spring season for seven days s ...

' (known as

Bundeli Utsav Bundeli Utsav (Bundeli Festival) is a cultural festival to promote the Bundeli (Bundelkhandi) folk arts, held in village Basari, tehsil Rajnagar, District Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh, India, every year during the spring season for seven days s ...

) at village Basari to preserve and promote

Bundelkhand Bundelkhand (, ) is a geographical and cultural region and a proposed state and also a mountain range in central & North India. The hilly region is now divided between the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, with the larger portion lyin ...

's Culture and Tradition.

Sources

*https://archive.today/20070703053043/http://archive.eci.gov.in/se98/background/S12/winners93-mp.htm item no.49 *http://www.rediff.com/election/2003/nov/01mp1.htm *http://news.oneindia.in/2007/03/13/mp-hc-quashes-petition-seeking-cancellation-of-cooperative-elections-1174133273.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20090218153220/http://archive.eci.gov.in/nov2003/pollupd/ac/candlwc/S12/S12INCAcnst.htm *http://archive.eci.gov.in/Nov2003/pollupd/ac/states/s12/Partycomp49.htm *https://web.archive.org/web/20081109072215/http://www.aicc.org.in/home-layout.php?id=62 1950 births Living people People from Chhatarpur Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1980–1985 Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1993–1998 Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Madhya Pradesh Indian National Congress politicians from Madhya Pradesh Bahujan Samaj Party politicians from Madhya Pradesh {{MadhyaPradesh-INC-politician-stub