Gopal Kalan Tandel

Gopal Kalan Tandel (born 5 August 1953) is an Indian politician.[1] He was a Member of Parliament in the 8th and 11th Lok Sabha.[1] He was the first parliamentarian to represent Daman and Diu in the Lok Sabha.[2]

Gopal Kalan Tandel
Member of the Indian Parliament
for Daman and Diu
Personal details
Born (1953-08-05) 5 August 1953
Daman, Portuguese India
NationalityIndian
RelationsKalan Bijia Tandel (Father)
Alma materSouth Gujarat University

Early life and education

Gopal Kalan Tandel is the son of Kalan Bijia Tandel.[1] He studied at the South Gujarat University, obtaining a B.Com. degree.[1] He served as the president of the Daman Municipal Council between 1984 and 1986.[1]

Daman and Diu by-election

After Daman and Diu were separated from Goa and given Union Territory status of its own, a by-election for a new Lok Sabha constituency was held on 7 November 1987.[2] Tandel won the seat, defeating the independent candidate Narayan Fugro.[3] Tandel had stood as an Indian National Congress candidate and obtained 17,027 votes.[2][4] He lost the Daman and Diu seat in the 1989 Lok Sabha election. He stood as an Indian National Congress candidate, finishing second with 13,807 votes (37.79%).[5]

He stood as an independent in the election for the Daman and Diu seat in the 1991 Lok Sabha election. He finished in second place with 9,808 votes (25.85%).[6]

He regained the Daman and Diu seat in the 1996 Lok Sabha election, standing as an Indian National Congress candidate. He obtained 24,543 votes (50.62% of the votes in the constituency).[7] He resigned from the Indian National Congress on 26 December 1997, along with three other parliamentarians.[8] He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 20 January 1998, along with B.P. Maurya and Mohanbhai Sanjibhai Delkar.[9] On 15 March 2004 the Central Election Committee of BJP declared Tandel as its candidate in the Daman and Diu seat in the 2004 Lok Sabha election.[10] He finished in second place with 26,916 votes.[11] Tandel contested the 2009 Lok Sabha election as a Nationalist Congress Party candidate. He got 2,144 votes (3.15%) in the Daman and Diu constituency.[12] As of 2011 he was the president of the NCP unit in Daman.[13]

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References
  1. Lok Sabha. TANDEL, SHRI GOPAL KALAN
  2. Asian Recorder, vol. 33. 1987. p. 9780.
  3. Election Commission of India. Bye-election results 1952-95
  4. Political Events Annual. Lok Sabha Secretariat. 1989. p. 110.
  5. Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Elections, 1989 to the Ninth Lok Sabha - Volume I (National and State Abstracts & Detailed Results) Archived 18 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  6. Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Elections, 1991 To the Tenth Lok Sabha - Volume I (National and State Abstracts & Detailed Results) Archived 18 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Elections, 1996 To the Eleventh Lok Sabha - Volume I (National and State Abstracts & Detailed Results)
  8. Asian Recorder. K. K. Thomas at Recorder Press. 1998.
  9. Data India. Press Institute of India. 1998. p. 44.
  10. The Hindu. BJP clears second list
  11. Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 To the Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Volume I (National and State Abstracts & Detailed Results)
  12. Election Commission of India. Constituency-Wise Detailed Result Archived 11 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  13. Collector, Daman and Diu. Meeting 30-09 2011
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