Chittu Pandey

{{Short description|Indian independence activist and revolutionary}}

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Chittu Pandey (10 May 1895 – 6 December 1946), popularly referred to as the Sher-e Ballia (Lion of Ballia), was an Indian independence activist and revolutionary.

Pandey was born in Rattuchak, a village in Ballia District of what was then the North-West Provinces in a Saryuparin Brahmin family.

A distinguished independence activist, he led the Quit India Movement in Ballia; described as the "Tiger of Ballia" by Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose,{{Cite web |url=http://geocities.com/dakshina_kan_pa/art24/aug.htm |title=August Kranti : Ballia |access-date=8 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027173636/http://geocities.com/dakshina_kan_pa/art24/aug.htm |archive-date=27 October 2009 |url-status=dead }} he headed the National Government declared and established on 19 August 1942 for a few days before it was suppressed by the British. The parallel government succeeded in getting the Collector to hand over power and release all the arrested Congress leaders.Book- India's Struggle for Independence by Bipan Chandra But within a week, soldiers marched in and the leaders had to flee. He used to call himself a Gandhian.

There is a crossroads also on the name of Chittu Pandey.

Pandey ji had two children. Son's name was Maksudan Pandey and daughter's name was Lalita Devi.