Ila Pant (born 10 March 1938) is an Indian politician who was a Member of Parliament in 12th

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, also known as the House of the People, is the lower house of Parliament of India which is Bicameralism, bicameral, where the upper house is Rajya Sabha. Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by a ...

from Nainital constituency of

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(now part of

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). She was married to former minister K. C. Pant.

Personal life and family

Ila Pant was born in Nainital district (Uttarakhand) on 10 March 1938. She is the daughter of Shobha and Govind Ballabh Pande. She graduated from the

University of Allahabad The University of Allahabad is a Central university (India), Central University located in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. It was established on 23 September 1887 by an act of Parliament and is recognised as an Institute of National Importance (INI). ...

with a

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degree. On 20 June 1957, she married the politician Krishna Chandra Pant from Uttarakhand Brahmin family. The couple has two sons.

Politics

Ila Pant's father-in-law

Govind Ballabh Pant Govind Ballabh Pant (10 September 1887 – 7 March 1961) was an Indian freedom fighter and the first chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. Alongside Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabh Bhai Patel, Pant was a key figure in the movement for ...

was one of the major architect of modern India and a senior

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leader, and her husband went on to become a minister as well. She won the 1998 general election as a

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

(BJP) candidate, winning 38.52% of the votes in the Nainital constituency. She defeated the former Chief Minister and Congress leader

Narayan Dutt Tiwari Narayan Datt Tiwari (18 October 1925 – 18 October 2018) was an Indian politician who served as the 9th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and 3rd Chief Minister of Uttarakhand from 2002 to 2007. He was first Indian Chief Minister who served for t ...

by a margin of 15,557 votes. During 1998-99, she served as a member of the Committee on External Affairs and of the Consultative Committee, Ministry of External Affairs. She has also served on the Board of Governors of the Pant Nagar University, and as a Secretary of the G.B. Pant Memorial Society in New Delhi.

References

External links

Biographical Sketch - Member of Parliament 12th Lok Sabha
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pant, Ila Living people India MPs 1998–1999 University of Allahabad alumni 1938 births Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttarakhand Women in Uttarakhand politics People from Nainital district 20th-century Indian women