Avinash Pandey

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| name = Avinash Pandey

| birth_date = {{bda|df=y|26 July 1958}}

| birth_place = Nagpur, Bombay State, India

| residence = Delhi, Nagpur

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| office = General Secretary of the Indian National Congress for Uttar Pradesh

| term_start = 24 December 2023

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| predecessor = Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

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| party = Indian National Congress

| spouse = Preeti Pande

| children = 2

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Avinash Pandey or Pande is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress party. He has been a Youth Congress leader and held the post of General Secretary in the Indian Youth Congress when Shri Maninder Singh Bitta was the President. He has been a member of the Legislative Council, Maharashtra (Upper House), and was appointed chairman, of Maharashtra State Small Scale Industries Development Corporation (MSSIDC).

He unsuccessfully fought the Rajya Sabha elections from Maharashtra in 2008, against industrialist Rahul Bajaj.{{cite news| title=Will build on Priyanka's legacy: New Cong gen secy incharge of U.P. | work=Hindustan Times | date=23 December 2023 | url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/will-build-on-priyanka-s-legacy-new-cong-gen-secy-incharge-of-up-101703352560302.html | access-date=25 August 2024}} He was defeated by Rahul Bajaj by one vote.

He was nominated to contest in June 2010 Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra. He won the election.{{cite news | title=Avinash Pande replaces Priyanka Gandhi as Congress' UP in-charge: 5 points about him | work=Hindustan Times | date=2023-12-24 | url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/avinash-pande-replaces-priyanka-gandhi-as-congress-up-in-charge-5-points-about-him-101703390291447.html | access-date=2024-08-25}}

On 25 January 2022, he was appointed as the General Secretary of the Indian National Congress Incharge - Jharkhand by Congress President Sonia Gandhi.{{cite news| first=Ajmal |last=Abbas|title=Who is Avinash Pande? Congress's new UP in-charge who replaced Priyanka Gandhi | work=India Today | date=2023-12-23 | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/avinash-pande-congress-general-secretary-in-charge-of-uttar-pradesh-profile-details-2479750-2023-12-23 | access-date=2024-08-25}}

He is the Congress party's All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary InCharge - Jharkhand and a Congress Working Committee (CWC) member.