Vikram Mandavi

Mandavi is from Bijapur, Chhattisgarh. He is the son of Bheem Shah Mandavi. He passed Class 12 in 1996 at Government Higher Secondary School, Bhairamgarh. Later, he discontinued his studies. He also served as a Panchayat member.^[3]

Mandavi won from Bijapur Assembly constituency representing the Indian National Congress in the 2023 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election. He polled 35,739 votes and defeated his nearest rival, Mahesh Gagda of the Bharatiya Janata Party, by a margin of 2,706 votes.^[4] He first became an MLA winning the 2018 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election defeating Gagda by 21,584 votes.^[4][5]

In April 2023, he narrowly escaped an attack by maoists near Padeda village in Bastar region.^[6]