| Born | 1953-08-05 (age 73) |
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| Born | Daman, Portuguese India
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| Nationality | Indian
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| Alma mater | South Gujarat University
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Gopal Kalan Tandel (born 5 August 1953) is an Indian politician.[1] He was a Member of Parliament in the 8th (elected in 1987) and 1996-1998 in 11th Lok Sabha. [1] He was the first parliamentarian to represent Daman and Diu (Lok Sabha constituency) in the Lok Sabha.[2] He has been part of Indian National Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party, and currently Nationalist Congress Party.
Early life and education
Gopal Kalan Tandel is the son of Kalan Bijia Tandel.[1] He studied at the South Gujarat University, obtaining a B.Com. degree.[1] He served as the president of the Daman Municipal Council between 1984 and 1986.[1]
Daman and Diu by-election
After Daman and Diu were separated from Goa and given Union Territory status of its own, a by-election for a new Lok Sabha constituency was held on 7 November 1987.[2] Tandel won the seat, defeating the independent candidate Narayan Fugro.[3] Tandel had stood as an Indian National Congress candidate and obtained 17,027 votes.[2][4] He lost the Daman and Diu seat in the 1989 Lok Sabha election. He stood as an Indian National Congress candidate, finishing second with 13,807 votes (37.79%).[5]
He stood as an independent in the election for the Daman and Diu seat in the 1991 Lok Sabha election. He finished in second place with 9,808 votes (25.85%).[6]
He regained the Daman and Diu seat in the 1996 Lok Sabha election, standing as an Indian National Congress candidate. He obtained 24,543 votes (50.62% of the votes in the constituency).[7] He resigned from the Indian National Congress on 26 December 1997, along with three other parliamentarians.[8] He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 20 January 1998, along with B.P. Maurya and Mohanbhai Sanjibhai Delkar.[9] On 15 March 2004 the Central Election Committee of BJP declared Tandel as its candidate in the Daman and Diu seat in the 2004 Lok Sabha election.[10] He finished in second place with 26,916 votes.[11] Tandel contested the 2009 Lok Sabha election as a Nationalist Congress Party candidate. He got 2,144 votes (3.15%) in the Daman and Diu constituency.[12] As of 2011 he was the president of the NCP unit in Daman.[13]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Lok Sabha. TANDEL, SHRI GOPAL KALAN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Asian Recorder, vol. 33{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}(1987)
- ↑ Election Commission of India. Bye-election results 1952-95
- ↑ Political Events Annual{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Lok Sabha Secretariat(1989)
- ↑ Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Elections, 1989 to the Ninth Lok Sabha - Volume I (National and State Abstracts & Detailed Results) Template:Webarchive
- ↑ Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Elections, 1991 To the Tenth Lok Sabha - Volume I (National and State Abstracts & Detailed Results) Template:Webarchive
- ↑ Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Elections, 1996 To the Eleventh Lok Sabha - Volume I (National and State Abstracts & Detailed Results)
- ↑ Asian Recorder{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. K. K. Thomas at Recorder Press(1998)
- ↑ Data India{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Press Institute of India(1998)
- ↑ The Hindu. BJP clears second list
- ↑ Election Commission of India. Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 To the Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Volume I (National and State Abstracts & Detailed Results)
- ↑ Election Commission of India. Constituency-Wise Detailed Result Template:Webarchive
- ↑ Collector, Daman and Diu. Meeting 30-09 2011