Party Name : Bharatiya Janata Party
Constituency : Ahmedabad East
State : Gujarat
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 7 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 15
Father's Name : Late Shri Ramchandra Pathak
Mother's Name : Late Smt. Madhu Kantaben
Date of birth : 20 Jul 1947
Profession : Teacher (Retd.)
Positions held :
1967-68 President, Bharatiya Jan Sangh Khadia Ward Booth Samiti1968-80 Member, Working Committee, Jana Sangh, Gujarat1975-80 Member, National Council, Bharatiya Jan Sangh1975-92 Elected Carporator, Municipal Corporation, Ahmedabad (for 3 Consecutive terms-17 years)1980 onwards Member, Working Committee, Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.), Gujarat1982-83 President, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, Gujarat1987-90 Chairman, Municipal Transport Committee, Ahmedabad1989 Elected to 9th Lok Sabha1990-91 Member, Committee on EstimatesMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Textiles1991 Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (2nd term)1991-93 President, B.J.P., Ahmedabad1992-94 Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee to enquire into irregularities in security and banking transactionsMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers1995-96 Member, Committee on Finance1996 Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (3rd term)1996-97 Member, Committee on CommunicationsMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (4th term)Whip, B.J.P. Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha1998-99 Chairman, Committee on Labour and WelfareMember, General Purposes CommitteeMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Civil Aviation1999 Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (5th term)13 Oct. 1999-11 Nov. 2000 Union Minister of State, Defence Production and Supplies15 Oct. 2001-28 Jan. 2003 Union Minister of State, Department of Defence Production and Supplies29 Jan. 2003-11 Feb. 2003 Union Minister of State, Ministry of Home Affairs12 Feb. 2003-May 2004 Union Minister of State, Home Affairs with additional charge of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Law and Justice18 May 2004 Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha( 6th term)Member, House Committee Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Commerce and IndustryMember, Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances Law and JusticeMember, General Purposes CommitteeChairman, Committee on Government Assurances2004 Member, National Executive, B.J.P.5 Aug. 2007 Member, Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law & Justice17 May 2009 Re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha (7th term)9 Jun. 2009 Member, House Committee31 Aug. 2009 Member, Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice, Rajya Sabha16 Sep. 2009 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Commerce and Industry23 Sep. 2009 Chairman, Committee on Papers Laid on the Table19 Oct. 2009 Member, General Purpose Committee20 Oct. 2009 Member, Committee on Food Management in Parliament House Complex21 Jan. 2010 Member, Hindi Salahakar Samiti for the Department of TelecommunicationsApr. 2010 Elected President, First Contact Group Meeting on Parliamentarians for Education in the UNESCO, New Delhi Cluster Countries-India Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka & Maldives26 Jul. 2010 Nominated as Vice-President, India-China Parliamentary Friendship Group16 Sep. 2010 Member, India-Spain Parliamentary Friendship Group3 Dec. 2010 Member, India-Morocco Parliamentary Friendship Group4 Mar. 2011 Member, Joint Committee to Examine Matters Relating to Allocation and Pricing of Telecom License and Spectrum15 Jun. 2011 Member, Press Council of India
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Literary, Artistic & Scientific Accomplishments
Written several short stories, poems and ghazals
Social And Cultural Activities
Welfare of the poor and the downtrodden, relief work; served in a hospital as a social worker for three hours everyday for about 10 years; Managing Trustee, Madhuram Charitable Trust
Favourite Pastime and Recreation
Reading, writing, watching movies and other programmes on T.V.
Sports and Clubs
Cricket
Countries Visited
Canada, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Thailand, U.K. and U.S.A.; attended, (i) World Conference on Urban Transport, Jakarta, 1988; Member (i) Indian Parliamentary Delegation to Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (C.P.C.), Ottawa, 1994; and (ii) C.P.C., Wellington, New Zealand, 1998; (iii) Nigeria, 2006
Other Information
Sent to Baroda Central Jail during Emergency 1975-77 for about 11 months and took part in various public agitations and sometimes put behind the bars but never convicted by any Court
