| Tej Narayan Pandey | |
| Office: | Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly |
| Term Start: | 15 March 2012 |
| Constituency: | Ayodhya |
| Term End: | 19 March 2017 |
| Party: | Samajwadi Party |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Alma Mater: | Lucknow University, 2003 |
| Profession: | Politician |
| Succeeded: | Ved Prakash Gupta |
| Preceded: | Lallu Singh |
Tej Narayan Pandey is an Indian politician. He represents Ayodhya as a Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He is a member of the Samajwadi party. He was elected as MLA of the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Ayodhya.
On February 7, 2013, he was assigned to be the minister for entertainment tax (independent Charge) in the newly elected Akhilesh Yadav government.[1] On June 17, 2014, Pandey stepped down from Akhilesh Yadav ministry, while continuing to be part of the party executive committee.[2]
Pandey was born to Rajbhushan and hails from Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh. He did his post graduation work at Lucknow University in 2003.[3]
Pandey joined the Samajwadi party in 1998. He was elected Vice-President of Lucknow University in 2004.[4] He is a member of Akhilesh yadav, or "Team Eleven".[4]
Some of his efforts were recognized by the people of Faizabad for his approval of a medical college there.[5]
Pandey was the seventh Akhilesh aide in a prominent post only to be expelled by Shivpal within a month.[6]
He lost his seat in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election to Ved Prakash Gupta of the Bharatiya Janata Party.[7]