Prem Khandu Thungon (born 5 June 1946) is an Indian politician and leader of the

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 ...

. He was a former central minister of state for Urban Development in the Government of India. He was the Chief Minister of Janata Party led

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Government following the first assembly elections held in 1978. He was convicted in 2015 of misappropriating public funds intended for an irrigation project in

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, and sentenced him to 4 years in jail.

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