Balram Das Tandon (1 November 1927 – 14 August 2018)[2] was an Indian politician and the Former Governor of Chhattisgarh.

[3] In his adulthood for some years he was a pracharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party from Punjab.

[4] He was deputy chief minister in the Justice (retd) Gurnam Singh Akali Dal-Jan Sangh ministry in 1969-70.

He contested the Rajpura seat in 2002, but lost to Raj Khurana of the Indian National Congress.

They had two daughters, Alka Kawatra and Poonam Batra, who reside in New Delhi, and one son, Sanjay Tandon, who is also part of the political framework for BJP, Chandigarh.