Pawan Pandey

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Pawan Kumar Pandey is an Indian politician. Pandey is a former Shiv Sena member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Akbarpur constituency in Ambedkar Nagar district. [1] [2] [3]

He was among those accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case arising from the destruction of a mosque in December 1992. He is alleged to have been involved in the planning of the demolition of the Babri Masjid under the leadership of Uma Bharti, Lal Krishna Advani, Ashok Singhal and other members of the Vishva Hindu Parishad. [4] He was elected as an MLA from the Akbarpur (Assembly constituency) during the 1991 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election on the ticket of Shiv Sena..

Personal life

His elder brother Rakesh Pandey (politician, born 1952) was Samajwadi Party MLA from Jalalpur and his younger brother Krishna Kumar Pandey alias Kakku Pandey contested a seat at Isoli in Sultanpur district as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate. His nephew Ritesh Pandey is currently MP from Ambedkarnagar district and a member of the Bahujan Samaj Party. [5] His son Prateek Pandey contested a seat at Katehri in 2022 Vidhan Sabha elections of Uttar Pradesh as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate.

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