Rajesh Pandey
| Rajesh Pandey | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament 16th Lok Sabha | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 16 May 2014 | |
| Preceded by | R. P. N. Singh, INC |
| Constituency | KushiNagar |
| Personal details | |
| Citizenship |  India |
| Political party | BJP |
| Residence | Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh & Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh |
| Alma mater | City Montessori School, Lucknow |
| Religion | Hinduism |
Rajesh Pandey is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a member of 16th Lok Sabha
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 .[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 (21.11.1990 - 21.06.1991) Ministry of Human Resource Development (India).His mother was also a Member of Legislative Council for two terms consecutively.
References
- ↑ "Constituencywise-All Candidates". Eciresults.nic.in. Retrieved 2014-05-17.
