Vishnu Dayal Ram (Hindi pronunciation:[ʋɪʂɳʊdəjaːlɾaːm]) 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 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 2,88,807 votes in 2024 Lok Sabha