Know your Politician
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Constituency : |
Bansgaon-SC (Uttar Pradesh )
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Party Name :
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Indian National Congress(INC)
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Father’s Name
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Late Shri Amar Prasad
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Mother’s Name
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Late Smt. Bartani Devi
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Date of Birth
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11.11.1939
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Place of Birth
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Ujjarpar, Distt. Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh)
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Marital Status
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Married
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Date of Marriage
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03 Apr 1959
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Spouse’s Name
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Late Smt. Udasi Devi
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No.of Daughters
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2
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Educational Qualifications
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M.A. (Geography), B.Ed. and LL.B.
Educated at Gorakhpur University and Lucknow University (Uttar Pradesh)
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Profession
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Agriculturist
Teacher, Educationist, Social Worker
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Permanent Address |
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Village Ujjarpar,
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Distt. Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh)
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Tel. (0551)2320988
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Present Address |
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1, Tyagraj Marg,
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New Delhi – 110 001
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Tels. (011) 23012745, 23015924 (R), 23061739, 23062778 (O)
Fax: (011) 23015598 (R), 23063141 (O)
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Position Held |
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1958
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Member, Gram Panchayat, Ujjarpar
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1960
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Sarpanch, Sadhan Co-operative Society, Ujjarpar
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1962
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Member, Gagaha Area Society
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1963
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Member, Gorakhpur Zilla Parishad
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General Secretary Gorakhpur Zilla Congress Committee
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1974-77
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Member, Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
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1974-79
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General Secretary, PCC, later PCC (I), Uttar Pradesh
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1980
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Elected to 7th Lok Sabha
Member, Estimates Committee for 2 years
Member, Public Accounts Committee for 1 year
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1983-85
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Vice-President, PCC (I), Uttar Pradesh
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1984
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Re-elected to 8th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
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1985-86, 1987-88, 1992-94
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President, Congress Working Committee, Uttar Pradesh
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Feb. 1988-July 1989
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Union Deputy Minister, Railways
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July 1989 – Dec. 1989
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Minister of State, Mines and Steel, Department of Mines
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1989
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Re-elected to 9th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
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1990
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Member, Committee on Government Assurances
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Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Railways
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1990 & 2001
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General Secretary, All India Congress Committee (I)
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Member, All India Congress (I) Central Election Committee
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14 June 1995-2000
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Governor, Haryana
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18 Sept.95-16 Nov.95 and 23 April 96-26 July 97
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Held additional charge of the Governor of Himachal Pradesh
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2004
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Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha
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22 May Onwards
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Union Cabinet Minister, Small Scale Industries and Agro & Rural Industries
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Book Published
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Rashtriya Chetna Aur Atmasadhana (in Hindi)
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Social And Cultural Activities
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Propagated the policies of Congress as a student leader; worked for the welfare of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, minorities and oppressed; Chairman, District Social Welfare Committee, 1963
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Special Interests
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Dissemination of education in the lower strata of society
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Favourite Pastime and Recreation
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Reading, horticulture, agriculture, tourism and social service
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Sports and Clubs
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Volleyball, kabbadi and football
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Countries Visited
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Nepal, Mauritius, U.A.E. (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah)
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Other Information
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Continously endeavouring selflessly to provide social justice to the opressed sections of society and promoting women upliftment through education; works for communal harmony and national integration, promoting love for fraternity and feelings of peaceful co-existance; presently engaged in furthering ancient Indian ideals and cultural heritage; striving continously to let Hindi get its due place as national language since national language is the representative of country`s collective consciousness; working on eradicating illiteracy from the society, protecting environment through afforestation, and advocating control of population explosion by way of lectures oranised in Haryana and the rest of the country; President, Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Memorial Institute; awarded Babu Jagjivan Ram Award, 1996-97 by All India Scheduled Castes Council in Amritsar on 1 August 1996; donated the cash amount of the award to Baba Bhimrao Amebedkar Memorial Institute; firm believer in the ideals, principles and policies of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and Babu Jagjivan Ram; engaged in the task of nation building by harmonising the ideologies of past leaders; worked as a lecturer at Gandhi Inter College, Mahnapur, Gorakhpur and taught there for 34 years; started his public and political life with active participation in Panchyati Raj Institutions and infrastructural units of democrarcy; demonstrated his political and administrative skills in organisation and administration of these institutes
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Reference: Loksabha