Party Name : Lok Jan Shakti Party
Constituency : Hajipur
State : Bihar
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 9 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 16
Father's Name : Late Shri Jamun Paswan
Mother's Name : Late Smt. Siya Devi
Date of birth : 05 Jul 1946
Profession : Social Worker
Positions held :
1969 Member, Bihar Legislative Assembly1970 Joint-Secretary, S.S.P., Bihar1974 General-Secretary, Lok Dal, Bihar1977 Elected to 6th Lok Sabha1980 Re-elected to 7th Lok Sabha (2nd term)1982-84 Leader of Lok Dal (K), Lok Sabha1983 Founder, National President, Dalilt Sena1985-86 National General-Secretary, Lok Dal1987-88 National General-Secretary, Janata Party1988-90 Secretary, National FrontNational General-Secretary, Janata Dal1989 Re-elected to 9th Lok Sabha (3rd term)1989-90 Union Cabinet Minister, Labour and Welfare1991 Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (4th term) Member, Business Advisory CommitteeMember, Standing Committee on Home Affairs1996 Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (5th term)Leader of the House, Lok Sabha (During the tenure of 11th Lok Sabha, both the Prime Ministers, Sarvashri H.D. Devegowda and I.K.Gujral, being Members of Rajya Sabha, Shri Paswan was designated as Leader of the House ,Lok Sabha ) Member, Business Advisory Committee1996-98 Union Cabinet Minister, Railways1 June 1996-29 June 1996 Minister, Parliamentary Affairs1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (6th term)Leader, Janata Dal Parliamentary Party1998-99 Member, General Purposes CommitteeMember, Standing Committee on RailwaysMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs1999 Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (7th term)13 Oct. 1999- 1 Sept. 2001 Union Cabinet Minister, Communications1 Sept. 2001- 29 April 2002 Union Cabinet Minister, Coal and Mines2004 Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha (8th term)23 May 2004 - 22 May 2009 Union Cabinet Minister, Chemicals & Fertilizers; SteelJuly 2010-May 2014 Member, Rajya SabhaAug. 2010 Member, Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and JusticeSept. 2010 Member, Committee on PetitionsSept. 2010 - Sept. 2011 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry Urban Development2011 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Human Resource DevelopmentMay 2013 Member, Committee on Rules, Rajya SabhaMay, 2014 Re-elected to 16th Lok Sabha (9th term)27 May 2014 onwards Union Cabinet Minister, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution29 Jan. 2015 onwards Member, General Purposes Committee
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Chairman, Vichar Shakti, 2002; Member, (i) SC/ST Welfare Committee 1977-78; (ii) DDA Advisory Council, 1980-85; (iii) Parliamentary Official Language Committee, 1980-85 and 1989-95; (iv) AIIMS Advisory Committee, 1991-96; and (v) Court, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1998-99; (vi) India-Trinidad and Tobago Parliamentary Friendship Group (since July 2010); Name recorded in Guninees Book of World Records in 1977 for winning election in Sixth Lok Sabha from Hajipur by highest margin
