Gopal Kalan Tandel

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Gopal Kalan Tandel
Member of the Indian Parliament
for Daman and Diu
Personal details
Born (1953-08-05) 5 August 1953 (age 71)
Daman, Portuguese India
RelationsKalan Bijia Tandel (Father)
Alma mater South Gujarat University

Gopal Kalan Tandel (born 5 August 1953) is an Indian politician. [1] He was a Member of Parliament in the 8th (elected in 1987) and 1996-1998 in 11th Lok Sabha. [1] He was the first parliamentarian to represent Daman and Diu (Lok Sabha constituency) in the Lok Sabha. [2] He has been part of Indian National Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party, and currently Bharatiya Janata Party.

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Early life and education

Gopal Kalan Tandel is the son of Kalan Bijia Tandel. [1] He studied at the South Gujarat University, obtaining a B.Com. degree. [1] He served as the president of the Daman Municipal Council between 1984 and 1986. [1]

Daman and Diu by-election

After Daman and Diu were separated from Goa and given Union Territory status of its own, a by-election for a new Lok Sabha constituency was held on 7 November 1987. [2] Tandel won the seat, defeating the independent candidate Narayan Fugro. [3] Tandel had stood as an Indian National Congress candidate and obtained 17,027 votes. [2] [4] He lost the Daman and Diu seat in the 1989 Lok Sabha election. He stood as an Indian National Congress candidate, finishing second with 13,807 votes (37.79%). [5]

He stood as an independent in the election for the Daman and Diu seat in the 1991 Lok Sabha election. He finished in second place with 9,808 votes (25.85%). [6]

He regained the Daman and Diu seat in the 1996 Lok Sabha election, standing as an Indian National Congress candidate. He obtained 24,543 votes (50.62% of the votes in the constituency). [7] He resigned from the Indian National Congress on 26 December 1997, along with three other parliamentarians. [8] He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 20 January 1998, along with B.P. Maurya and Mohanbhai Sanjibhai Delkar. [9] On 15 March 2004 the Central Election Committee of BJP declared Tandel as its candidate in the Daman and Diu seat in the 2004 Lok Sabha election. [10] He finished in second place with 26,916 votes. [11] Tandel contested the 2009 Lok Sabha election as a Nationalist Congress Party candidate. He got 2,144 votes (3.15%) in the Daman and Diu constituency. [12] As of 2011 he was the president of the NCP unit in Daman. [13]

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  3. ↑ Election Commission of India. Bye-election results 1952-95
  4. ↑ Political Events Annual. Lok Sabha Secretariat. 1989. p. 110.
  5. ↑ Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Elections, 1989 to the Ninth Lok Sabha - Volume I (National and State Abstracts & Detailed Results) Archived 18 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Elections, 1991 To the Tenth Lok Sabha - Volume I (National and State Abstracts & Detailed Results) Archived 18 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ↑ Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Elections, 1996 To the Eleventh Lok Sabha - Volume I (National and State Abstracts & Detailed Results)
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  9. ↑ Data India. Press Institute of India. 1998. p. 44.
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  11. ↑ Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 To the Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Volume I (National and State Abstracts & Detailed Results)
  12. ↑ Election Commission of India. Constituency-Wise Detailed Result Archived 11 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ↑ Collector, Daman and Diu. Meeting 30-09 2011 Archived 28 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine
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