Archana Pandey

Archana Pandey (born 5 June 1960) is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh. She is MLA in 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh and former Minister of State for Mining, Excise, and Prohibition (2017–19). She is a daughter of former Bhartiya Janta Party's MP, MLA (4 times) and former General Secretary and Vice-President of Bharatiya Janata Party state unit of Uttar Pradesh Late Shree Ram Prakash Tripathi Ji.

Archana Pandey
Minister of State for Mining, Excise and Prohibition Government of Uttar Pradesh
In office 19 March 2017 – 20 August 2019[1][2]
Chief Minister	Yogi Adityanath
Personal details
Born	(1960-06-05) 5 June 1960 (age 64) Uttar Pradesh, India
Political party	Bhartiya Janta Party[3]
Residence(s)	H.No. 244, Bajariya Chhibramau, Kannauj[4]
Alma mater	M.A.(English),1980, University of Allahabad[4]
Profession	Politician

She has won the Chhibramau constituency of Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly. The fight of Chhibramau was between Archana Pandey (BJP), Tahir Hussain Siddiqui (BSP) and Arvind Singh (SP). She defeated her nearest competitor Tahir Hussain Siddiqui by 37,224 votes.

Political life

Initially she worked in public as a basic social worker.

• 2017:She was elected as Member of Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh from Chhibramau (Vidhan Sabha constituency) as Bharatiya Janta Party candidate. She got 11209 votes in this election^[3][5][4]
• March 19, 2017:became State Minister in the cabinet of Yogi Adityanath^[6]

She got the ministries of Mining, Excise, Prohibition.^[7]

Archana Pandey has around 25 years of experience in social works and active politics. She has participated in MLA election from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at Chhibaramau in 2012. She was the former member of consumer forum of six years, ex member of Samaj Kalyan Board (UP), and previous director of Gramin Bank. She is a member of working committee from BJP Uttar Pradesh. She remained a Member of National Council BJP two times and secretary of Mahila Morcha BJP for Uttar Pradesh three times.

Minister of State – Uttar Pradesh Government

Archana Pandey, the member of BJP, is an MLA from Vidhan Sabha constituency of Uttar Pradesh. She won the Chhibramau constituency by getting around 112209 votes in assembly election, Kannauj District of Uttar Pradesh. Tahir Hussain Siddiqui has received 74985 votes and Arvind Singh got 72663 votes in 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. Total 37224 voters have used their voting rights to make Archana Pandey the winner in 2017 assembly elections from the seat of Uttar Pradesh.^[6][3]

On 20 August 2019, she resigned from the State Minister post along with four other members of the cabinet.^[1][2]

References

1. Qazi Farad Ahmad (21 August 2019). "In First Cabinet Expansion, UP CM Yogi Adityanath Inducts 18 Ministers, Promotes 5". News18. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
2. ANI (21 August 2019). "Resignations of 5 cabinet ministers accepted". ANI. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
3. "UP News in Hindi:UP News Samachar,Uttar Pradesh Hindi News Paper, यू पी न्यूज़ - Dainik Bhaskar". Archived from the original on 12 June 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
4. ADR. "Archana Pandey(Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)):Constituency- CHHIBRAMAU(KANNAUJ) – Affidavit Information of Candidate". myneta.info. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
5. "Chhibramau Election Results 2017: Archana Pandey of BJP Wins". news18.com. 11 March 2017. Archived from the original on 6 March 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
6. "दो नायब व 22 कैबिनेट मंत्रियों के साथ योगी ने ली यूपी के मुख्यमंत्री पद की शपथ". jagran.com. Archived from the original on 5 August 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
7. "CM Yogi Adityanath keeps home, revenue: UP portfolio allocation highlights", Hindustan Times, 22 March 2017, archived from the original on 10 August 2017