Poonam Chand Vishnoi (20 February 1924 - 25 May 2006) was a former speaker of

Rajasthan Legislative Assembly The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly or the Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the Indian states and territories of India, state of Rajasthan. The assembly meets at Vidhana Bhavan situated in Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan ...

from 7 July 1980 to 20 March 1985. He was a senior leader of

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

Party in Rajasthan. He hailed from

Jodhpur Jodhpur (; ) is the second-largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan and officially the second metropolitan city of the state. It was formerly the seat of the princely state of Jodhpur State. Jodhpur was historically the capital of the Ki ...

region of Rajasthan. He was elected to Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from

Bhinmal Bhinmal (previously Shrimal Nagar) is an ancient town in the Jalore District of Rajasthan, India. It is south of Jalore. Bhinmal was the capital of the Bhil king, then the capital of Gurjaradesa, comprising modern-day southern Rajasthan and nor ...

Phalodi Phalodi is a town and a municipality in Jodhpur district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is the headquarters for Phalodi tehsil. Phalodi is also called the "salt city" due to the salt industry in Rin. Phalodi is in the buffer zone of Thar ...

and Luni. He also served as deputy speaker of

and Cabinet Minister in

Rajasthan Government The Government of Rajasthan is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Rajasthan and its 33 districts. It consists of an executive, led by the Governor of Rajasthan, a judiciary and a legislative. Jaipur is the capital of Raja ...

. His daughter

Vijay laxmi Bishnoi Vijay may refer to: People *Vijay (name) *Vijay (actor) (born 1974), an Indian Tamil actor *Vijay (director), Kannada film director Fiction * ''Vijay'' (1942 film), a 1942 Indian Hindi film * ''Vijay'' (1988 film), a 1988 Indian Hindi film direc ...

was Member of

and Parliament Secretary between 1998 and 2003. She is ex-Chief of Woman Wing of

and Several Boards in

. Poonam Chand Vishnoi had also contested 1999 Loksabha election from

Jodhpur (Lok Sabha constituency) Jodhpur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 25 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Rajasthan state in India. Assembly segments Presently, Jodhpur Lok Sabha constituency comprises eight Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments. Thes ...

as INC candidate and lost to

Jaswant Singh Bishnoi Jaswant Singh Bishnoi (born 1 August 1958) was a member of 13th Lok Sabha, 13th and 14th Lok Sabha from Jodhpur. He is senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party in Rajasthan. Early life He was born in the village Guda Vishnoiyan in Jodhpur dist ...

by a small margin.

Early life

Poonam Chand Bishnoi was born in Feench village luni (tehsil) in District of Jodhpur. After doing LLB he was a practicing lawyer in Rajasthan High Court Jodhpur. In 1957, he successfully contested MLA election from Luni.

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* Rajasthani people Speakers of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly Deputy Speakers of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly Indian National Congress politicians 1924 births 2006 deaths Indian National Congress politicians from Rajasthan {{Rajasthan-INC-politician-stub