Jagdambika Pal | |
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Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh | |
In office 21 February 1998 — 23 February 1998 | |
Preceded by | Kalyan Singh |
Succeeded by | Kalyan Singh |
Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha | |
Assumed office 16 May 2009 | |
Preceded by | Mohammed Muqueem |
Constituency | Domariyaganj,Uttar Pradesh |
President of Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee | |
In office 30 May 2003 —7 November 2004 | |
Preceded by | Arun Kumar Singh Munna |
Succeeded by | Salman Khurshid |
Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |
In office 1993 —2007 | |
Preceded by | Lakshameshwar Singh |
Succeeded by | Jeetender Kumar |
Constituency | Basti |
Personal details | |
Born | Bharvaliya,Uttar Pradesh,India | 21 October 1950
Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Other political affiliations | Indian National Congress All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress |
Spouse | Sneh Lata Pal (m. 1975) |
Children | 3 |
Residence | 12, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi |
Education | MA & LLB |
Alma mater | Awadh University Gorakhpur University |
Jagdambika Pal (born 21 October 1950) is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for 31 hours 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. He joined the BJP in 2014 and re-entered the Lok Sabha.
He is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. He parted from the Indian National Congress to join All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) of N. D. Tiwari but in 1997, he formed Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress along with 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 15th Lok Sabha from 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]
When the Uttar Pradesh state government led by Kalyan Singh was dismissed on 21 February 1998 by Governor of Uttar Pradesh Romesh Bhandari, he became the Chief Minister. Kalyan Singh moved Allahabad High Court which termed the dismissal of government unconstitutional on 23 February 1998, thereby reinstating the Kalyan Singh government.[ citation needed ]