Giriraj Poddar is an Indian politician and industrialist from Murwara in Katni District, Madhya Pradesh state. He was elected as a MLA of the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha in 2008 for Murwara, running as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. His victory margin was one of the highest in the assembly of around 30000 votes.[1] He is a member of various committees of the Vidhan Sabha. He is originally from Sambhar Lake in Rajasthan, but his family later shifted its base to Mughal Sarai in Uttar Pradesh.
As a MLA he is credited for the over-bridge of Khirani, for the founding of the Katni Development Authority, the starting of city buses in Katni and Transport Nagar.
he has done lot of work for katni as katni development authority, transport nagar,city buses,food park,katni river bridge etc good mla