Sheetal Pandey
MLA in 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh
In office
March 2017 – March 2022
Preceded byRajendra
Succeeded byPradeep Shukla
ConstituencySahajanwa
Personal details
BornRajghat, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Residence(s)Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
Alma materGraduate from Gorakhpur University
OccupationMLA
ProfessionPolitician[1]

Sheetal Pandey is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a one-term member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, representing the Sahajanwa constituency in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh from 2017 to 2022.[1]

Political career

Pandey contested his first election in the 2006 by-election from the Kauriram assembly constituency, Gorakhpur.[2]

He lost that election to the Samajwadi Party candidate Ram Bhuwal Nishad by about 10000 votes.[3][2]

Pandey had the support of the then Gorakhpur Bharatiya Janata Party Member of parliament and the current Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath.[2] His loss was attributed to Bharatiya Janata Party rebel Upendra Shukla, who polled about 17,000 votes against Pandey's 41,600 votes, thus dividing the Bharatiya Janata Party vote share.[2] Ram Bhuwal Nishad, who won that election, polled about 52,000 votes.[2] Pandey was given a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket again in 2017 to contest the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.[4][5]

In 2017, aged 63, he was elected for the first time to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He defeated Yashpal Singh Rawat of the Samajwadi Party, securing 72,213 votes; her nearest rival contestants Yashpal Singh Rawat of the Samajwadi Party secured 56,836 votes and Devnarayan Singh Alias GM Singh of the Bahujan Samaj Party secured 54,143 votes.[4]

The division in the vote share between the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party helped Pandey secure a victory margin of about 18,000 votes.

Posts held

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01March 2017March 2022Member, 17th Legislative Assembly

References

  1. 1 2 "candidate affidavit". myneta.info. 2017. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "2006 by-election from the Kauriram assembly constituency, Gorakhpur". Hindustan Times. 28 March 2006. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "Samajwadi Party wins Kauriram by-election". The Hindu. 28 March 2006. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Uttar Pradesh – Sahajanwa Result Declared". eciresults.nic.in. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "Sahjanwa, Gorakhpur". Retrieved 4 November 2017 – via PressReader.
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