Jagdambika Pal

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Sneh Lata Pal
(m. 1975)
Jagdambika Pal
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
In office
21 February 1998 — 23 February 1998
Children3
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.

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Political career

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]

Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh

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 ]

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.
Political offices
Preceded by Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (de facto)
21 February 1998 23 February 1998
Succeeded by