Faggan Singh Kulaste

Some Lesser Known Facts About Faggan Singh Kulaste

• Faggan Singh Kulaste has been interested in sports since his college days. He represented his university in many state-level competitions for kabaddi, kho-kho, and volleyball.

• Faggan served as the president of the Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad, Madhya Pradesh, in 1980. He also served as the vice-president of Akhil Bhartiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad, Delhi.

• Faggan defeated the INC candidate Dayal Singh Tumrachi by a margin of 3,622 votes in the 1990 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, which he contested from the Niwas constituency on a ticket from the BJP.

• He won the 1996 Lok Sabha elections from the Mandla constituency in Madhya Pradesh with a margin of 64,620 votes.

• In 1998, he was appointed as the patron of the Akhil Bharatiya Gond Sangh.

• Faggan won the 1998 Lok Sabha elections from the Mandla constituency in Madhya Pradesh with a margin of 13,512 votes by defeating Sanjeev Chhotelal Uikey, an INC candidate.

• In 1999, he was re-elected to the 13th Lok Sabha from the Mandla constituency; he defeated the INC candidate Devendra Tekam by a margin of 6,572 votes.

• Faggan won the 2004 Lok Sabha elections from the Mandla constituency by defeating the Gondwana Gantantra Party candidate Hira Singh Markam with a margin of 64,897 votes.

• In 2009, he lost his Lok Sabha seat to an INC candidate named Basori Singh Masram, who won the elections with a margin of 65,053 votes.

• In 2014, Faggan defeated the INC candidate Omkar Singh Markam in the 16th Lok Sabha elections by a margin of 1,10,469 votes.

• In 2019, he defeated the INC candidate Kamal Maravi in the 17th Lok Sabha elections.

• Faggan has focused on promoting education and preserving tribal culture. He has taken various steps such as setting up educational units and committees to offer free education to underprivileged sections and establishing the Babalia Development Block for Adivasis.

• In 2021, he inaugurated an oxygen plant at the Tirath Ram Shah Hospital in New Delhi.

  

• In 2024, he defeated the INC candidate Omkar Singh Markam by a margin of 1,03,846 votes in the Lok Sabha elections.