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Kamlesh Pratap Shah (born 1972) is an Indian politician from
Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (; ; ) is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and the largest city is Indore, Indore. Other major cities includes Gwalior, Jabalpur, and Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, Sagar. Madhya Pradesh is the List of states and union te ...
. He is a three time MLA from Amarwara constituency. He won the 2023 Assembly election, representing
Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...
, but later shifted to the
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necessitating a by-election and won the 2024 by-election.


Early life and education

Shah is from
Amarwara Amarwara is a tehsil and a Nagar Palika Parishad in Chhindwara district in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. Geography and climate Geography Amarwara is located at . It has an average elevation of 796 metres (2,611 feet). Amarwara i ...
, Chhindwara District, Madhya Pradesh. He is the son of Ugra Pratap Bhanu Shah. He married Madhvi Shah. He passed Class 10 in 1989 at Mathura Prasad School, Chhindwara.


Political career

Shah won from Amarwara Assembly constituency in the
2023 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly elections were held in Madhya Pradesh on 2023 elections in India, 17 November 2023 to elect all List of constituencies of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly, 230 members of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. The resu ...
representing
Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...
. He polled 109,765 votes and defeated his nearest rival, Monika Batti of the
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 ...
, by a margin of 25,086 votes. He first became an MLA winning the
2013 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election A Legislative Assembly election was held on 25 November 2013 in Madhya Pradesh, India, with the result announced on 8 December. Along with four other state assembly elections, these were the first elections in which the Election Commission of Ind ...
. He retained the Amarwara Assembly constituency seat again in the 2018 Assembly election and won for the third time in the 2023 Assembly election.


See also

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Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha or the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly is the unicameral state legislature of Madhya Pradesh state in India. The seat of the Vidhan Sabha is at Bhopal, the capital of the state. It is housed in the ''Vidh ...
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2013 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election A Legislative Assembly election was held on 25 November 2013 in Madhya Pradesh, India, with the result announced on 8 December. Along with four other state assembly elections, these were the first elections in which the Election Commission of Ind ...
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2008 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election The 2008 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election was declared by the Election Commission of India on 14 October 2008. Elections for 230 seats took place on 27 November 2008, and counting started on 8 December. The Bharatiya Janata Party won ...


References

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