Jagdambika Pal

Some Lesser Known Facts About Jagdambika Pal

• He holds the record for the shortest stint as Chief Minister of any state in India.

• He established Surya Bakhsha Pal Girls Inter Collage and Surya Bakhsha Pal Post Graduate Degree Collage in Bankati, Basti, Uttar Pradesh.

• He started his career in politics by joining the Indian National Congress.

• Later, he quit the Indian National Congress to join the All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) of N. D. Tiwari.

• In 1997, he supported Kalyan Singh‘s government after forming the Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress along with Naresh Agarwal, Rajeev Shukla, Shyam Sunder Sharma, and Bacha Pathak and became minister of transport in the Uttar Pradesh government.

• Later, he again joined the Indian National Congress and became the president of the Uttar Pradesh state unit.

• On 3 July 2011, he opened a Commemorative plaque at Mahua Dabar in Basti, Uttar Pradesh in a tribute to the 5,000 people massacred by the British during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

• In 2014, he again quit the Indian National Congress, and on 19 March 2014, before the Lok Sabha elections, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of the then Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.

  

• He contested the 2014 Lok Sabha election from the Domariyaganj constituency in Uttar Pradesh on a ticket of the BJP and won.

• He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha from Domariyaganj in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.