| Birth date | 23 July 1951 (age 75) |
|---|---|
| Birth place | Nainijor, Buxar, Bihar |
| Office | Member of parliament, Lok Sabha |
| Term start | 16 May 2014 |
| Constituency | Palamu |
| Occupation | Civil Servant |
| Predecessor | Kameshwar Baitha |
| Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Spouse | Smt. Pushpa Dayal |
| Alma mater | Netarhat Vidyalaya and Patna College |
| Date | 15 December |
| Year | 2016 |
| Source | http://164.100.47.194/Loksabha/Members/MemberBioprofile.aspx?mpsno=4731 |
Vishnu Dayal Ram (ʋɪʂɳʊ dəjaːl ɾaːm) is a former director general police of Jharkhand state in India. He is a 1973 batch IPS officer and had served as DGP of Jharkhand Police twice from 1 July 2005 to 27 September 2006 and from 4 August 2007 to 13 January 2010. He has earlier served as SP of Bhagalpur and SSP of Patna.[1] After retirement, he joined Bharatiya Janata Party and won the 2014 Lok Sabha election from Palamu (Lok Sabha constituency).[2] Vishnu Dayal Ram of BJP registered a hat-trick on the Palamu Lok Sabha seat by registering a win against RJD's Mamta Bhuinya by a record margin of 288,807 votes in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
References
- ^ "Ex-DGP Ram & 2 more IPS officers retire | Ranchi News – Times of India". The Times of India. 30 July 2011.
- ^ Pranav Pratyush (28 April 2013). "Ex-DGP VD Ram joins 'party with a difference'". The Daily Pioneer. Retrieved 15 April 2023.