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Tej Narayan Pandey

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Tej Narayan Pandey
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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.

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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]

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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]

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