title: Laxminarayan Pandey
text: # Laxminarayan Pandey
  
  Laxminarayan Pandey (28 March 1928 – 19 May 2016) was a member of the 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Mandsaur constituency of Madhya Pradesh and was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party.
  
  ## Political career
  
  Pandey has had many spells as an MP. The first was in 1971 and 1977 where he was elected on the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) and Bharatiya Lok Dal (BLD) ticket, respectively. Pandey was the first MP from Mandsaur for Jan Sangh and a very close aide of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and LK Advani.
  
  ## Death
  
  He died aged 88 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh after battling old-age related illnesses in a private hospital.
  
  