SHARMA CHIRANJI LAL Biography

SHARMA, SHRI CHIRANJI LAL

[Cong. (I) – Karnal (Haryana)]

Positions held

1962-67

1962-64

1962-67

1965-67

1972-77

1980-85

1984

1989

1 May, 1990

1990

1991

Other Positions held

13th September, 1923

Ahulana in Distt. Sonepat (Haryana)

Married on 26th May, 1946

Smt. Sharda Rani

Three sons and three daughters

B.A., (Hons.) English, LL.B.

Educated at Hindu College, Delhi and Law
College, Delhi, Distinguished as an elocutionist and a good orator

Lawyer, Teacher and Educationist, Political
and Social Worker

(Practised law from 1949 and is a leading
Criminal Lawyer of repute)

Mission Road, Sonepat (Haryana). Tel. 2741

15, Balwant Rai Mehla Lane, Kasturba Gandhi
Marg, New Delhi-110001. Tel. 3782411

Member, Punjab Legislative Assembly

Member, Committee on Subordinate
Legislation, Punjab Legislative Assembly

Member, Committee on Prohibition,
Punjab Legislative Assembly

Secretary, Opposition Party, Punjab
Legislative Assembly

Member, Consultative Committee on Police
Deptt. and Public Prosecutions

Chairman, Committee on Government
Assurances, Punjab Legislative Assembly

Member, Haryana Legislative Assembly

Cabinet Minister, Haryana [Minister for
Revenue, P.W.D. (B&R) Technical
Education and also Education Ministry]

Elected 10 Lok Sabha (Seventh)

Chairman, First Sub-Committee and Deputy
Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee
on Official Languages

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of
Civil Aviation and Tourism

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of
Defence

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of
Home Affairs

Re-elected to Lok Sabha (Eighth)

Member, Committee on Public Undertakings

Member, Public Accounts Committee

Member, Railway Convention Committee

Member, Consultative Committee, Railway
Ministry

Elected to Lok Sabha (Ninth) for the third
time

Member, Estimates Committee

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of
Information and Broadcasting

Elected to Lok Sabha (Tenth) for the fourth
time

Chairman, Joint Committee on Offices of
Profit

President, D.C.C., Sonepat (Haryana) for 10
years;

Senior Vice-President, P.C.C., Haryana for
10 years

Translated the Punjab Gram Panchayat Act in
1949 (from English to Urdu);
Contributed articles in Magazines

Implementation of 20 point-programme for
the welfare of landless, Harijans and
Backward classes in Haryana, promotion
of educational institutions; President, Janata High
School, Ganaur, District Sonepat; President, Gaur Brahman
School and Colleges, Rohtak; Member, Management
Body CRA College, Sonepat for 17 years, Member
of the Managing Committee of Goswami Ganesh
Dutt College, Chandigarh

Welfare of Harijans and the downtrodden

Football and volleyball

Widely travelled; As Chairman of the
Parliamentary Sub-Committee on Official
Language visited Austria, Egypt,
France, Kuwait, Switzerland, U.K., U.S.S.R. and West
Germany, September-October, 1980; Also visited U.S.A.
and Canada in 1985

Member, State Transport Authority, Punjab
1962-64,

Member, State Citizens Council, Punjab
1962-67.