Biography

[J.D. – Kendrapara (Orissa)]

1960-61

1967

1967-71

1974-80

1977-78

1977-79

25 Jan. 1979 to 14 July 1979
and 28 July 1979 to 14 Jan. 1980

1989

19 Dec. 1989 to 9 July 1991

22 Dec. 1989

19 Jan. 1990

24 Jan. 1990

1991

Other Information

26th November, 1926

Bhauragarb in Distt. Puri (Orissa)

Married on 28th April, 1960

Dr. Saraswati Swain

B.A., (Hons.)

Educated at Ravenshaw College, Cuttack (Orissa)

Kalyani Nagar, Cuttack (Orissa). Tel. 22103

4, Janpath, New Delhi-110 001. Tel.
3018264

General Secretary, Socialist Party

Elected to Lok Sabha (Fourth)

Leader, SSP Parliamentary Party

Member, Rajya Sabha

Member, Joint Select Committee on Lok Pal
Bill

General Secretary, Janata Party

Union Minister, Health and Family Welfare

Re-elected to Lok Sabha (Ninth)

Speaker, Lok Sabha (Ninth)

Chairman, Business Advisory Committee

Member, Rules Committee

Member, General Purposes Committee

Elected to Lok Sabha (Tenth) for the third
time

Editor, ‘Chaukhamba’ (Hindi) fortnightly
and ‘Samata’ (Oriya) monthly

President, Gram Vikas Foundation: President, Lohia Academy

Social activities on Gandhian lines

Walking, reading

Volleyball

Widely travelled; Leader, Janata Party
Delegation to Bulgaria, 1978: Leader,
Delegation to WHO, Geneva 1979; Member of Indian Parliamentary Delegation to
Soviet Union and Hungary, led by the then Speaker, Shri Sanjiva Reddy in
1968; Leader, as the Speaker of the 9th Lok Sabha, Indian Parliamentary
delegations to Zimbabwe, UK, European Parliament (Strassburg) Luxemburg,
Argentina, Columbia, (Bogote) Mauritius, France, Poland and Hungary

Imprisoned in connection with the
Satyagraha launched by Socialist Party in 1960; imprisoned during emergency,
1975-76; Chairman, Press Council, 1977-78.