KHADILKAR, SHRI R. K.,
B.A., LL.B., (Cong.) Maharashtra-Baramati- 1971, Son of Shri Keshav Babaji
Khadilkar; b. at Naringa, Taluk Devgad, Distt. Ratnagiri, Maharashtra State,
December 15, 1905; ed. at Ferguson and Law Colleges of Poona, University of
Bombay; m. Dr. Chapala R. Khadilkar, August 13, 1936; 4 d.; Social and
Political Worker, Served several terms of imprisonment between 1930 and
1945; Joined Youths League Movement in 1928 and became Secretary,
Maharashtra Youth Congress in 1931; One of the founder Members of the
Congress Socialist Party in 1934; Publicity Secretary, Faizpur Session of
the Indian National Congress in 1936; Member, (i) Indian National Congress
1930-48 and since 1962, and (ii) Maharashtra Provincial Congress Committee
and its Peasants Inquiry Committee which drafted the agrarian programme of
the Faizpur Session; Left Congress in 1948 and organised along with other
colleagues the "All India Peasants" and Workers’ Party" and was
elected its General Secretary in 1953; Took a leading part in forming the
"All India Mazdoor Kisan Party" a coalition of seven leftist
organisations in 1955 and was elected Secretary Convener of the Central
Committee of the Organisation; Rejoined Congress in 1962 consequent on the
merger of the "Mazdoor Kisan Party" with the Congress; Member (i)
Poona Municipality, 1945-50, (ii) Poona University Court, (iii) Executive
Committee, Poona Branch of the Indian Council of World Affairs; Delegate to
the Asian Peace Conference held in China in 1952; Delegate to the World
Agricultural and Forestry Workers Conference held in Vienna in 1953;
Member, (i) Second Lok Sabha, 1957-62, (ii) Estimates Committee, 1957-58,
(iii) Third Lok Sabha, 1962-67, and (iv) Public Accounts Committee, 1962-63
and 1963-64 and also its Chairman for some time; Chairman, Study Team
appointed by the Government to examine the Iron and Steel Control
Organisation; Member of Parliamentary Delegation to U.S.A. in 1963; Member
of Delegation to the Middle Eastern countries in 1965; Member,
Fourth Lok Sabha, 1967-70; Deputy Speaker, Lok Sabha, March 28,
1967-November 1, 1969; Minister of Supply and Minister in the Ministry of
Finance, November, 1969-June, 1970; Minister of Supply June 1970-March,
1971; Minister of Labour and Rehabilitation, 1971.
