Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda
, National Vice-President of the Bharatiya Janata Party
Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda is National Vice-President of the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) and In-Charge of Assam & Delhi BJP Units. He has been a four-time
Member of Parliament of India, elected twice each to the Rajya Sabha and the Lok
Sabha. Jay Panda graduated from the Michigan Technological University. He had
helped to form the erstwhile Young Parliamentarians Forum (YPF) and was its Convener. He has
also been associated with the India-USA Forum of Parliamentarians from its founding in 2001 and
was its Chairman for fifteen years. He was awarded the “Bharat Asmita National Award” for best
parliamentary practices by the Hon’ble Chief Justice of India in 2008. Since its inception in 2007,
he has been associated with the ‘Citizens’ Alliance Against Malnutrition’, an advocacy group
including many parliamentarians across parties, civil society activists and non-governmental
organizations, Bollywood actors and celebrities. He has also authored a book “Lutyens’ Maverick”.
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