Sheetla Sahai (1932–2011) was a leader of
Bharatiya Janata Party
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. He was a cabinet minister in
Government of Madhya Pradesh
Government of Madhya Pradesh also known as the State Government of Madhya Pradesh, or locally as the State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and its 52 districts. It consists of an executive, ...
. He represented
Gwalior
Gwalior() is a major city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh; it lies in northern part of Madhya Pradesh and is one of the Counter-magnet cities. Located south of Delhi, the capital city of India, from Agra and from Bhopal, the s ...
in the
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 ...
. He died in 2011. He was elected MLA for the first time in 1967. He served as Opposition Leader and also as Cabinet Minister and held portfolios of health, housing, public contact, home, transport, jail, irrigation, Narmada Valley Development.
Sahai is survived by his daughters, Archana Shrivastava (nee Sahai), Alka Pradhan (nee Sahai) and Achala Sahai. Alka is married to Vinod Pradhan, son of Late
K.N. Pradhan, a prominent Congress Leader from Madhya Pradesh, erstwhile member of Eighth Lok Sabha representing Bhopal parliamentary constituency of Madhya Pradesh and served as Cabinet Minister in the Government of Madhya Pradesh from 1969 to 1972.
References
For more information about shri Sahai follow link https://web.archive.org/web/20140714133334/http://shitlasahai.org/
2011 deaths
1932 births
State cabinet ministers of Madhya Pradesh
Bharatiya Jana Sangh politicians
Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1967–1972
People from Gwalior
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Madhya Pradesh
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