Tej Narayan Pandey

Tej Narayan Pandey is an Indian politician who represents Ayodhya as a Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He is a member of Samajwadi party. He is elected as MLA of 2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Ayodhya.

On February 7, 2013, he was assigned the minister of state for entertainment tax (independent Charge) in the newly elected Akhilesh Yadav government. On June 17, 2014, Pandey stepped down from Akhilesh Yadav ministry, while continuing to be part of the party executive committee.

Early life
Pandey was born to Rajbhushan and hails from Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh. He did his post graduation in Lucknow University in 2003.

Political career
Pandey joined the Samajwadi party in 1998. He was elected vice-president of Lucknow University in 2004. He is the member of Akhilesh yadav "Team Eleven".

His efforts are praised by the people of Faizabad for the approval of a medical college in Faizabad.

A former student union leader at Lucknow University, Pandey is a first-time MLA from Ayodhya in Faizabad district. "I will continue working to strengthen Samajwadi Party, Netaji (Mulayam) and Akhilesh with a target to ensure that Akhilesh becomes CM again after the 2017 polls. The SP is in my heart and spirit and that cannot be removed by merely a letter issued by Shivpal Yadav." Pandey was the seventh Akhilesh aide in a prominent post only to be expelled by Shivpal within a month.

He lost his seat in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election to Ved Prakash Gupta of the Bharatiya Janata Party.