Rajesh Pandey

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

Rajesh Pandey
Member of Parliament 16th Lok Sabha
In office
16 May 2014 – 30 May 2019
Preceded byR. P. N. Singh, INC
ConstituencyKushinagar
Succeeded byVijay Kumar Dubey
Personal details
CitizenshipIndia
Political partyBhartiya Janta Party
ResidenceKushinagar, Uttar Pradesh and Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Alma materCity Montessori School, Lucknow

Early life and education

Rajesh Pandey was born in Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh. He was born on 19 March 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.).

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 2014 Indian general elections from the Kushi Nagar (Lok Sabha constituency) defeating R. P. N. Singh of INC .[1]

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 November 1990 - 21 June 1991) Ministry of Human Resource Development (India).His mother was also a Member of Legislative Council for two terms consecutively.

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References
  1. "Constituencywise-All Candidates". Eciresults.nic.in. Retrieved 17 May 2014.


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