Lt. Col. Maharaja Manabendra Shah (26 May 1921 – 5 January 2007) was a member of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Lok Sabha of India.[1][2][3] He represented the Tehri Garhwal constituency of Uttarakhand and was a member of the Indian National Congress before joining the Bharatiya Jan Sangh and later the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party. He became one of the BJP's longest-serving members. Shah was ambassador to Ireland from 1980 to 1983.[2]
Shah was also the last ruling Maharaja of the Garhwal Kingdom (1946–1949), when Tehri Garhwal princely state acceded to independent India on 1 August 1949.
He served as an Honorary Lieutenant Colonel in the Bengal Engineer Group (formerly, the King George Vs Own Bengal Sappers and Miners Group, Royal Indian Engineers and prior to that, the 1st Prince of Wales Own Bengal Sappers and Miners).[2]
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^ abcRathore, Abhinay (1948). "Tehri Garhwal (Princely State)". Rajput Provinces of India. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
^"Lok Sabha veterans with a difference". The Times of India. 23 April 2004. Archived from the original on 9 March 2019. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
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for (SC/ST/None) Candidate Party Poll On Result 1 Tehri Garhwal None ManabendraShah Bharatiya Janata Party Won 2 Garhwal None Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri Bharatiya...
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