{{Short description|Indian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}} {{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Ila Pant | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1938|03|10|df=yes}} | birth_place = Nainital, United Provinces, British India | office = Member of the Lok Sabha | constituency = Nainital | term_start = 10 March 1998 | term_end = 26 April 1999 | predecessor = Narayan Datt Tiwari | successor = Narayan Datt Tiwari | education = Bachelor of Arts | alma_mater = Allahabad University | occupation = Politician and Social worker | party = Bhartiya Janata Party | spouse = Krishna Chandra Pant | children = 2 | footnotes = }} '''Ila Pant''' (born 10 March 1938) is an Indian politician who was a Member of Parliament in 12th Lok Sabha from Nainital constituency of Uttar Pradesh (now part of Uttarakhand). She was married to former minister K. C. Pant.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/nation/story/19980223-ila-pants-lackluster-speeches-shorn-of-local-issues-825753-1998-02-22|title=Electrion images: Ila Pant| publisher=India Today|date=23 February 1998}}</ref>
==Personal life and family==
Ila Pant was born in Nainital district (Uttarakhand) on 10 March 1938. She is the daughter of Shobha and Govind Ballabh Pande. She graduated from the University of Allahabad with a Bachelor of Arts degree. On 20 June 1957, she married the politician Krishna Chandra Pant from Uttarakhand Brahmin family. The couple has two sons.<ref name="BioSketch_12LS">{{cite news |url=https://www.indiapress.org/election/archives/lok12/biodata/12up04.php |title=Biographical Sketch of the Member of the 12th Lok Sabha |publisher=India Press |accessdate=12 May 2016 }}</ref>
==Politics ==
Ila Pant's father-in-law Govind Ballabh Pant was one of the major architect of modern India and a senior Indian National Congress leader, and her husband went on to become a minister as well. She won the 1998 general election as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate, winning 38.52% of the votes in the Nainital constituency.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://eci.nic.in/archive/GE2004/States/PartyCompWinner/S28/partycomp04.htm |title=Nainital Parliamentary Constituency |publisher=Election Commission of India |accessdate=12 May 2016 }}</ref> She defeated the former Chief Minister and Congress leader Narayan Dutt Tiwari by a margin of 15,557 votes.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20121014/dun.htm#3 |title=Mala Raj Lakshmi Shah first woman Member of Parliament from state of Uttrakhand |author=Sandeep Rawat |work=The Tribune |location=Chandigarh |date=14 October 2012 }}</ref>
During 1998-99, she served as a member of the Committee on External Affairs and of the Consultative Committee, Ministry of External Affairs.<ref name="BioSketch_12LS"/>
She has also served on the Board of Governors of the Pant Nagar University, and as a Secretary of the G.B. Pant Memorial Society in New Delhi.<ref name="BioSketch_12LS"/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links ==
*[http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok12/biodata/12up04.htm Biographical Sketch - Member of Parliament 12th Lok Sabha] *[https://www.rediff.com/news/1998/jan/31pant.htm Interview of K. C. Pant]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pant, Ila}} Category:Living people Category:India MPs 1998–1999 Category:University of Allahabad alumni Category:1938 births Category:Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttarakhand Category:Women in Uttarakhand politics Category:People from Nainital district Category:20th-century Indian women