Jagdambika Pal

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Jagdambika Pal
Domariyaganj
Personal details
Born (1950-10-21) 21 October 1950 (age 73)
Bharvaliya, Uttar Pradesh, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Other political
affiliations
Indian National Congress
All India Indira Congress (Tiwari)
Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress
Spouse
Sneh Lata Pal
(m. 1975)
Children1 son, 2 daughters
EducationMA & LLB
Gorakhpur University

Jagdambika Pal is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for 1 day in 1998. He is also currently a member of the Lok Sabha since 2009. In the 15th Lok Sabha he represented the Indian National Congress, until he resigned on 7 March 2014. Contextually, he joined the BJP in 2014 and re-entered the Lok Sabha.

Political career

He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. He parted from the

Naresh Agarwal, Rajeev Shukla and Shyam Sunder Sharma and Bacha Pathak and became Minister of Transport in Kalyan Singh
government.

Later, Jagdambika Pal became the president of the Uttar Pradesh state unit of the Indian National Congress.

In 2009 he was elected to the

Domariyaganj Lok Sabha constituency in Siddharthnagar district, Uttar Pradesh
.

On 3 July 2011, Jagdambika Pal and other members of Lok Sabha, Lower House of the Parliament of India, opened Commemorative plaque at Mahua Dabar, where the British massacred 5,000 people during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.[1]

Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh

When, the

Kalyan Singh
government.

He holds the record for the shortest stint as

Kalyan Singh government's dismissal had been declared unconstitutional by the Allahabad High Court
.

Personal life

He was born to Surya Baksha Pal and Mool Rajidevi at Bharvaliya village of Bankati Block in Basti district of Uttar Pradesh state. He founded Surya Baksha Pal Girls Inter college and Surya Baksha Pal Post Graduate Degree College at Bankati, Basti district.

Positions held

References

  1. ^ Mahua Dabar commemorative plaque
  2. ^ "Jagadambika Pal holds record of CM with shortest tenure". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  3. ^ "उत्तर प्रदेश में 1998 में सिर्फ 24 घंटा ही मुख्यमंत्री रह सके थे जगदंबिका पाल". Jagran (in Hindi). Retrieved 26 November 2019.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (de facto
)

21 February 1998 – 23 February 1998
Succeeded by