Sheetal Pandey is an Indian politician and a member 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. Since 2014, it has been the List of ruling p ...

. He is a one-term member of the

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, representing the Sahajanwa constituency in

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from 2017 to 2022.

Political career

Pandey contested his first election in the 2006 by-election from the Kauriram assembly constituency,

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. He lost that election to the Samajwadi Party candidate Ram Bhuwal Nishad by about 10000 votes. Pandey had the support of the then

Bharatiya Janata Party Member of parliament and the current Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh

Yogi Adityanath Yogi Adityanath (born on 5 June 1972 as Ajay Singh Bisht),

. 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. Ram Bhuwal Nishad, who won that election, polled about 52,000 votes. Pandey was given a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket again in 2017 to contest the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. 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 The Samajwadi Party ( SP; translation: ''Socialist Party'', founded 4 October 1992) is a socialist political party in India, headquartered in New Delhi but mainly based in Uttar Pradesh, with significant presence in other states as well. With ...

, 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 The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is a national level political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans (literally means "community in majority"), referring to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes (OBC), a ...

secured 54,143 votes. 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

References

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