Rajesh Pandey

Rajesh Pandey
Member of Parliament 16th Lok Sabha
Assumed office
16 May 2014 - Present
Preceded by R. P. N. Singh, INC
Constituency Kushinagar
Personal details
Citizenship  India
Political party Bhartiya Janta Party
Residence Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh & Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Alma mater City Montessori School, Lucknow

Rajesh Pandey is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a member of 16th Lok Sabha

Early life and education

Rajesh Pandey was born in Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh. He was born on March 19, 1959 to Raj Mangal Pandey and Malti Pandey. He completed his Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (PGDBA) from the Institute of Productivity and Management, Lucknow (U.P.).[1]

Politics

Shri Rajesh Pandey was elected Member of the Legislative Council Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council for the first time from Deoria Local Authority Constituency in 1991 and was re-elected for the second term in 1997. He is the President and Patron of several Degree Colleges and Inter-Colleges in Kasia, Kushinagar and Deoria. As an MLC, he has shouldered many important responsibilities such as, Chairman of Privilege Committee; Deputy Leader, U.P. Vidhan Mandal Dal; Presiding Officer, U.P. Vidhan Parishad. and he has discharged these numerous responsibilities with utmost efficiency.

Shri Rajesh Pandey won the trust of the Former Prime Minister, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who entrusted him the job of media management of his home constituency Lucknow. As a media in charge of the Prime Minister’s Constituency, Mr. Pandey handled national and international media with distinction.

He has won the Indian general elections, 2014 from the Kushi Nagar (Lok Sabha constituency) defeating R. P. N. Singh of INC .[2]

Personal life

He comes from an affluent political family. He is son of Late Shri Raj Mangal Pandey a prominent minister in Uttar Pradesh government who later became Union HRD Minister (21.11.1990 - 21.06.1991) Ministry of Human Resource Development (India).His mother was also a Member of Legislative Council for two terms consecutively.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.newspatrolling.com/rajesh-pandey/
  2. ↑ "Constituencywise-All Candidates". Eciresults.nic.in. Retrieved 2014-05-17.


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