Party Name : Indian National Congress
Constituency : Pondicherry
State : Pondicherry
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 3 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 13
Father's Name : Shri M.O. Hasan Kuthoos Maricar
Mother's Name : Smt. Seyed Sultangani
Date of birth : 06 Sep 1937
Profession : Social Worker
Positions held :
1964-91 Member, Pondicherry Legislative Assembly1964-67 and 1980-85 Speaker, Pondicherry Legislative Assembly (two terms)1967-68, 1969-74 and 1985-90 Chief Minister, Pondicherry (three terms)March-Dec. 1990 Leader of Opposition, Pondicherry Legislative Assembly1991 Elected to 10th Lok Sabha1991-96 Member, Joint Committee to Enquire into Irregularities in Securities and Banking TransactionsMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Science and TechnologyMember, Standing Committee on Home AffairsJune 1991- Dec. 1992 Union Minister of State, Civil Aviation and Tourism1996 Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (2nd term)1999 Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (3rd term)Deputy Chief Whip, Congress Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha1999-2000 Member, Committee on Home AffairsMember, Committee on Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme
More Information :
Special Interests
Books, women welfare and upliftment of the downtrodden
Favourite Pastime and Recreation
Reading, sports, social work and horticulture
Sports and Clubs
Tennis; Member, Circle-de-Pondicherry
Countries Visited
Australia, France, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, U.K., U.S.A. and erstwhile U.S.S.R.; attended World Tamil Conference at Paris, 1970, Disarmament Conference at Vienna; attended a Seminar at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Harvard University, U.S.A.; Deputy Leader and Leader, Haj Goodwill Delegation in 1987 and 1989 respectively; visited Syria in 1991 for signing a protocol on Tourism
Other Information
Participated in struggle for liberation of Pondicherry as a student, during 1953-54 when Pondicherry was a French colony; Member, Central Haj Committee, Mumbai, 1975-2000
