Lakhan Lal Dewangan

Lakhan Lal Dewangan (born 12 April 1962) is an Indian politician serving as Minister of Commerce And Industry, Labour in Government of Chhattisgarh and represents Korba as MLA. He is former Parliamentary secretary (Minister of State rank) in Government of Chhattisgarh. On 29 September 2020, he was appointed as Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Chhattisgarh.

Political career Lakhan Lal Dewangan was first elected as Mayor of Korba Municipal Corporation in 2005. On 8 December 2013, Dewangan became Member of Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly from Katghora Constituency by defeating Bodhram Kanwar of Indian National Congress, a six term MLA from same seat by 13,130 votes and became Parliamentary secretary (Minister of State rank) for Food, Civil Supply, Consumer Protection, Village Industry, Planning, Economic and Statistics in Raman Singh Third ministry. Again, Dewangan contested the 2018 Assembly election against Purushottam Kanwar (INC) for Katghora but lost to Kanwar by 11,511 votes. In the 2023 Assembly election, he was fielded from Korba against 3 term MLA and incumbent Revenue Minister Jai Singh Agrawal and defeated him by huge margin of 25,629 votes and was sworn in as Cabinet Minister in Vishnudeo Sai ministry.