Ila Pant
Member of the Lok Sabha
In office
10 March 1998 – 26 April 1999
Preceded byNarayan Datt Tiwari
Succeeded byNarayan Datt Tiwari
ConstituencyNainital
Personal details
Born (1938-03-10) 10 March 1938
Nainital, United Provinces, British India
Political partyBhartiya Janata Party
SpouseKrishna Chandra Pant
Children2
EducationBachelor of Arts
Alma materAllahabad University
OccupationPolitician and Social worker

Ila Pant (born 10 March 1938) is an Indian politician who was a Member of Parliament in 12th Lok Sabha from Nainital constituency of Uttar Pradesh (now part of Uttarakhand). She was married to former minister K. C. Pant.[1]

Personal life and family

Ila Pant was born in Nainital district ( Uttarakhand ) on 10 March 1938. She is the daughter of Shobha and Govind Ballabh Pande. She graduated from the University of Allahabad with a Bachelor of Arts degree. On 20 June 1957, she married the politician Krishna Chandra Pant from Uttarakhand Brahmin family . The couple has two sons.[2]

Politics

Ila Pant's father-in-law Govind Ballabh Pant was a key architect of modern India and a senior Indian National Congress leader, and her husband went on to become a minister as well. She won the 1998 general election as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate, winning 38.52% of the votes in the Nainital constituency.[3] She defeated the former Chief Minister and Congress leader Narayan Dutt Tiwari by a margin of 15,557 votes.[4]

During 1998-99, she served as a member of the Committee on External Affairs and of the Consultative Committee, Ministry of External Affairs.[2]

She has also served on the Board of Governors of the Pant Nagar University, and as a Secretary of the G.B. Pant Memorial Society in New Delhi.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Electrion images: Ila Pant". India Today. 23 February 1998.
  2. 1 2 3 "Biographical Sketch of the Member of the 12th Lok Sabha". India Press. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "Nainital Parliamentary Constituency". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  4. ↑ Sandeep Rawat (14 October 2012). "Mala Raj Lakshmi Shah first woman Member of Parliament from state of Uttrakhand". The Tribune. Chandigarh.
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