Sunder Lal was an Indian freedom fighter, politician and Member of Parliament of India. MP for five straight terms, he was member of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and the 5th Lok Sabhas of India. Lal represented the Saharanpur constituency of Uttar Pradesh and was a member of the Congress political party.
Early life And Political Career
Sunder Lal was born in village Baliakheri, Saharanpur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh. He participated in the Indian independence movement and after Indian independence he joined active politics.
Sunder Lal was Member of Parliament for five straight terms from Saharanpur. However, during the 1st and the 2nd Lok Sabha, Saharanpur constituency was differently defined and was not in existence. Lal represented the “Saharanpur (West) cum Muzaffarnagar (North)” constituency during the 1st Lok Sabha and “Saharanpur (SC)” during the 2nd Lok Sabha. He was a member of a Congress party.[1] And was supposed to be close to Indira Gandhi and Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna.
Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha today
This profile was published on India Vote Kar in July 2016 and describes Sunder Lal as it stood then. Uttar Pradesh returns 80 members to the 18th Lok Sabha, elected in 2024; the first 12 by seat number are:
- Saharanpur — Imran Masood, Indian National Congress
- Kairana — Iqra Choudhary, Samajwadi Party
- Muzaffarnagar — Harendra Singh Malik, Samajwadi Party
- Bijnor — Chandan Chauhan, Rashtriya Lok Dal
- Nagina — Chandrashekhar Azad, Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram)
- Moradabad — Ruchi Veera, Samajwadi Party
- Rampur — Mohibbullah Nadvi, Samajwadi Party
- Sambhal — Zia ur Rahman Barq, Samajwadi Party
- Amroha — Kanwar Singh Tanwar, Bharatiya Janata Party
- Meerut — Arun Govil, Bharatiya Janata Party
- Baghpat — Rajkumar Sangwan, Rashtriya Lok Dal
- Ghaziabad — Atul Garg, Bharatiya Janata Party