Gajendra Prasad Himanshu

Gajendra Prasad Himanshu (born 10 January 1942) is an Indian former politician. He served as the Deputy Speaker of the Bihar Legislative Assembly, twice as a minister in the Bihar government, and seven times. Seven times as an MLA from Hasanpur, Bihar.

In year 1977, he became Minister of State irrigation, Government of Bihar. He was Deputy Speaker of Bihar Legislative Assembly from 1980 to 1985. In 1990, he became Cabinet Minister of Public Health and Engineering Department (PHED), Bihar.

He was nominated as Speaker of Bihar Assembly in year 2000, by Janata Dal (United) Government. However, the nomination was withdrawn last minute to retain the sanctity of the House particularly that of the chair's post and would not like to contest the election just to create a precedence.