Name Giriraj Poddar | Role Politician | |
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Giriraj Poddar is an Indian politician and industrialist from Murwara in Katni District, Madhya Pradesh state. He was elected as a MLA of the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha in 2008 for Murwara, running as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. His victory margin was one of the highest in the assembly of around 30000 votes. He is a member of various committees of the Vidhan Sabha. He is originally from Sambhar Lake in Rajasthan, but his family later shifted its base to Mughal Sarai in Uttar Pradesh.
He is the highest distributar of jan sampark rashi. He is credited for khiraini over bridge, katni nadi bridge, a bow-shaped bridge one of its kind in Madhya Pradesh. He spent a consecutive 15 days outside his home in his constituency in yatra and interacted around 50,000 people gather data for further development of katni. He has raised igniting issue affecting daily life of people very effectively in Vidhansabha. He is also credited for food park, clearance of citi buses. social organisation to whom he is affiliated desh disha manch known for its efforts for khirani over bridge. He is also credited for food park, transport nagar. He became one of the very few mla of states utilised 100% of fund allocated to their corpus. He is also credited for constitution of katni development authority.