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'''Gopal Kalan Tandel''' (born 5 August 1953) is an Indian politician.<ref name="a">Lok Sabha. ''[http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/biodata_1_12/3202.htm TANDEL, SHRI GOPAL KALAN]''</ref> He was a Member of Parliament in the [[8th Lok Sabha|8th]] (elected in 1987) and 1996-1998 in [[11th Lok Sabha]]. <ref name="a"/> He was the first parliamentarian to represent [[Daman and Diu (Lok Sabha constituency)]] in the [[Lok Sabha]].<ref name="b"/> He has been part of [[Indian National Congress]], [[Bharatiya Janata Party]], and currently [[Nationalist Congress Party]].<br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Gopal Kalan Tandel is the son of Kalan Bijia Tandel.<ref name="a"/> He studied at the [[South Gujarat University]], obtaining a B.Com. degree.<ref name="a"/> He served as the president of the Daman Municipal Council between 1984 and 1986.<ref name="a"/><br />
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==Daman and Diu by-election==<br />
After Daman and Diu were separated from [[Goa]] and given [[Union Territory]] status of its own, a by-election for a [[Daman and Diu (Lok Sabha constituency)|new Lok Sabha constituency]] was held on 7 November 1987.<ref name="b"/> Tandel won the seat, defeating the independent candidate [[Narayan Fugro]].<ref name="e">Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/ByeElection/Bye-ele-results%2052-95.xls Bye-election results 1952-95]''</ref> Tandel had stood as an [[Indian National Congress]] candidate and obtained 17,027 votes.<ref name="b">{{cite book|title=Asian Recorder, vol. 33|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EBQuAQAAIAAJ|year=1987|page=9780}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Political Events Annual|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SaJHAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat|page=110}}</ref> He lost the Daman and Diu seat in the [[1989 Indian general election|1989 Lok Sabha election]]. He stood as an Indian National Congress candidate, finishing second with 13,807 votes (37.79%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1989/Vol_I_LS_89.pdf Statistical Report on General Elections, 1989 to the Ninth Lok Sabha - Volume I (National and State Abstracts & Detailed Results)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718183934/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1989/Vol_I_LS_89.pdf |date=18 July 2014 }}''</ref><br />
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He stood as an independent in the election for the Daman and Diu seat in the [[1991 Indian general election|1991 Lok Sabha election]]. He finished in second place with 9,808 votes (25.85%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1991/VOL_I_91.pdf Statistical Report on General Elections, 1991 To the Tenth Lok Sabha - Volume I (National and State Abstracts & Detailed Results)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718183558/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1991/VOL_I_91.pdf |date=18 July 2014 }}''</ref><br />
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He regained the Daman and Diu seat in the [[1996 Indian general election|1996 Lok Sabha election]], standing as an Indian National Congress candidate. He obtained 24,543 votes (50.62% of the votes in the constituency).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1996/Vol_I_LS_96.pdf Statistical Report on General Elections, 1996 To the Eleventh Lok Sabha - Volume I (National and State Abstracts & Detailed Results)]''</ref> He resigned from the Indian National Congress on 26 December 1997, along with three other parliamentarians.<ref>{{cite book|title=Asian Recorder|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3IxtAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=K. K. Thomas at Recorder Press}}</ref> He joined the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] on 20 January 1998, along with B.P. Maurya and [[Mohanbhai Sanjibhai Delkar]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Data India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kHlDAAAAYAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Press Institute of India|page=44}}</ref> On 15 March 2004 the Central Election Committee of BJP declared Tandel as its candidate in the Daman and Diu seat in the [[2004 Indian general election|2004 Lok Sabha election]].<ref>''The Hindu''. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20040627161840/http://www.hindu.com/2004/03/16/stories/2004031606001400.htm BJP clears second list]''</ref> He finished in second place with 26,916 votes.<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_2004/Vol_I_LS_2004.pdf Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 To the Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Volume I (National and State Abstracts & Detailed Results)]''</ref> Tandel contested the [[2009 Indian general election|2009 Lok Sabha election]] as a [[Nationalist Congress Party]] candidate. He got 2,144 votes (3.15%) in the Daman and Diu constituency.<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/archiveofge2009/Stats/VOLI/25_ConstituencyWiseDetailedResult.pdf Constituency-Wise Detailed Result] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811090059/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/archiveofge2009/Stats/VOLI/25_ConstituencyWiseDetailedResult.pdf |date=11 August 2014 }}''</ref> As of 2011 he was the president of the NCP unit in Daman.<ref>Collector, Daman and Diu. ''[http://collectordaman.gov.in/documents/2011/meeting-30-09-2011.PDF Meeting 30-09 2011]''</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Daman and Diu]]<br />
[[Category:Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Daman and Diu]]<br />
[[Category:Nationalist Congress Party politicians from Daman and Diu]]<br />
[[Category:Lok Sabha members from Daman and Diu]]<br />
[[Category:1953 births]]<br />
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