Rajmani Pandey
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Rajmani Pandey राजमणि पाण्डेय (born 12 November 1943) is an Indian politician who was a member of 10th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. He was elected as MLA from 168, Basti Sadar constituency of District Basti Uttar Pradesh as a candidate of Janta Dal in 1989.[1]
Personal life and education
He was born in 1943 in a Brahmin family of Rampur Rewati Village of Basti District. He completed his schooling at Basti and moved to Gorakhpur University for Higher Education. From Gorakhpur University he completed MA (Sociology and Political Science), B.Ed and LLB. His Father name was Divakar Pandey.He got married at age of 17 years in 1960.He have a son Dr. Ajay Pandey and a daughter Saraswati Pandey. [4]
Political career
His political career started from Gorakhpur University where he started participating in Chatra Andolan, Majdor Andolan, Kisan Andolan. He was president of Gorakhpur University Student union in 1972-73. He was prisoned in the Basti, Gorakhpur, Gonda, Lucknow, Tihar prison for overall of 6 years. During the emergency, he was in prison for more than 19 months in Misa. He became president and All india general secretary of Samajwadi Yuva Jan Sabha U.P. and also president of Mandi Samiti, Basti.[4]First time he participated in UP Assembly election in 1980 as a candidate of JNP (SR)from Basti constituency and stood at 3rd position with 13983 votes.[2]Again he participated in 1985 UP assembly election as a candidate of LKD from basti constituency and stood second with 26191 votes.[3]He got elected as MLA of Basti Sadar in 10th Assembly Election of UP in 1989 as candidate of Janta Dal. He defeated Ex- Chief Minister of UP and candidate of Indian National Congress Jagadambika Pal by 22,783 votes getting 52,530 votes.[5]He was MLA of Basti Sadar for 488 days (December 1989- April 1991). [7] He joined Samajwadi Party and again contested as candidate of Samajwadi party from Basti Sadar in 14th Assembly election in 2007 but lost to the candidate of BSP Jitendra Chaudhary.[8]
References
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7][circular reference] [8]
- ^ "Members of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly". uplegisassembly.gov.in.
- ^ Page 493 https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3254-uttar-pradesh-1980/
- ^ Page 504 https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3255-uttar-pradesh-1985/
- ^ Page 320 http://uplegisassembly.gov.in/Members/pdfs/10th_vs_sadashya_parichay.pdf
- ^ Page 511 https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3256-uttar-pradesh-1989/
- ^ "RAJMANI PANDEY(Samajwadi Party(SP)):Constituency- BASTI(BASTI ) - Affidavit Information of Candidate:". myneta.info.
- ^ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basti_Sadar_(Assembly_constituency)
- ^ Page 598 https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3261-uttar-pradesh-2007/