Raja Ram Pandey
Raja Ram Pandey was an Indian politician from the Samajwadi Party. He was a three-term member of legislative assembly and had also represented Vishwanathganj constituency of Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh. He was in the Cabinet of the chief minister Akhilesh Yadav.
Career
Raja Ram Pandey fought election six times and three times he won election from Vishwanathganj constituency of Pratapgarh. Raja Ram Pandey began his career from the political party Janata Dal and was elected first time as member of legislative assembly in 1997. He became a cabinet minister in the Bhartiya Janta Party government in Uttar Pradesh. Later he won as a candidate of Ram Vilas Paswan s'outfit Lok Janshakti Party in the 2002 Uttar Pradesh assembly election.He lost in the 2007 assembly election as a Samajwadi Party candidate and in 2012 Raja Ram won election from Vishwanathganj Vidhan Sabha in Pratapgarh.
He died on 31 October 2013 following a heart attack.