Manabendra Shah

Lt. Col. Maharaja Manabendra Shah Sahib Bahadur (26 May 1921 – 5 January 2007) was a member of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Lok Sabha of India. 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). He became one of the BJP's longest-serving members. Shah was India's ambassador to Ireland from 1980 to 1983.

He was also the Patron of the Badrinath and Kedarnath Temples, President of the Temple Board of Management, Tehri Garhwal, Trustee of the Maharaja Narendra Shah Trust and the Maharaja Kirti Shah Trust.

His interests include reading, photography and travelling.

He was a sports enthusiast and member of the following sports clubs: Cricket Club, Gymkhana Club, Golf Club, Army Golf Club, National Sports Club, Royal Western India Turf Club, and Rotary Club. Mahendra was elected to the Lok Sabha from Chittorgarh in the 1989 Indian general election from BJP with a record winning margin of over 1,90,000 votes. He moved to Indian National Congress and contested from Chittorgarh Constituency and lost to Jaswant Singh of the BJP and then from Bhilwara Constituency where he lost to Subhash Chandra Baheria in 1996 Lok Sabha elections.

His grandson Vishvaraj Singh Mewar is the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Nathdwara constituency for the 2023 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly Elections.

Death He died on 5 January 2007 in New Delhi after a long illness, and was accorded a state funeral at Narendranagar, Tehri-Garhwal on the 7 January 2007.