He was Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh twice, from 20 January 1980 to 17 February 1980 and from 5 March 1990 to 15 December 1992.
He was the only politician who defeated Congress strong man Kamal Nath in 1997 from Chhindwara constituency for member of parliament.
[1][2] Sunder Lal Patwa was born in a Svetambara Jain family[3][4][5] in the village of Kukreshwar located between Manasa and Rampura in the Neemuch District of Madhya Pradesh.
[3] He spent six months in jail in 1948 when RSS was banned in the wake of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination.
He was first elected to Lok Sabha via by-poll in Chhindwara in 1997 by defeating Congress strongman Kamal Nath in his home turf.
In 1999, he was elected to the Lok Sabha from Narmadapuram constituency, and was minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government from 1999 to 2001.