Tej Narayan Pandey

Tej Narayan Pandey is an Indian politician. He represented Ayodhya as a Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He is a member of the Samajwadi Party. He was elected as MLA of the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Ayodhya.

Tej Narayan Pandey
Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office 15 March 2012 – 19 March 2017
Preceded by	Lallu Singh
Succeeded by	Ved Prakash Gupta
Constituency	Ayodhya
Personal details
Born	1980 or 1981 (age 44–45)[1]
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Samajwadi Party
Alma mater	Lucknow University, 2003
Profession	Politician

On February 7, 2013, he was assigned to be the minister for entertainment tax (independent Charge) in the newly elected Akhilesh Yadav government.^[2] On June 17, 2014, Pandey stepped down from Akhilesh Yadav ministry, while continuing to be part of the party executive committee.^[3]

Early life

Pandey was born to Rajbhushan and hails from Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh. He did his post graduation work at Lucknow University in 2003.^[1]

Political career

Pandey joined the Samajwadi party in 1998. He was elected vice-president of Lucknow University in 2004.^[4] He is a member of Akhilesh yadav, or "Team Eleven".^[4]

Some of his efforts were recognized by the people of Faizabad for his approval of a medical college there.^[5]

Pandey was the seventh Akhilesh aide in a prominent post only to be expelled by Shivpal within a month.^[6]

He lost his seat in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election to Ved Prakash Gupta of the Bharatiya Janata Party.^[7]