Party Name : Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)
Constituency : Udhampur
State : Jammu and Kashmir
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 1 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 17
Father's Name : Late Shri Rajinder Singh
Mother's Name : Smt. Shanti Devi
Date of birth : 06 Nov 1956
Profession : Medical Practitioner Author,Professor,Newspaper Columnist,Diabetologist & Consultant Physician
Positions held :
May, 2014 Elected to 16th Lok Sabha27 May 2014 - 25 May 2019 Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office; Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Space27 May 2014 - 9 Nov. 2014 Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Science and Technology; and Ministry of Earth Science09 Nov. 2014 - 25 May 2019 Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region22 May 2016 - 28 May 2016 Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Ministry of Youth Affairs and SportsMay, 2019 Re-elected to 17th Lok Sabha (2nd term)30 May 2019 onwards Union Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region; Minister of State, Prime Minister`s Office; Minister of State, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Minister of State, Department of Atomic Energy; and Minister of State, Department of Space
More Information :
Books Published
Author of 8 Books including Monograms on Diabetes and World Book Fair "Best Seller", "Diabetes Made Easy"; Author of Chapters on Diabetes consecutively in around dozen successive editions of API Text Books for Post Graduate Course (Medicine); Syndicated weekly column "Tales of Travesty", popularly read and regularly published for three decades
Literary, Artistic & Scientific Accomplishments
Author of 8 books; Over 10,000 published articles in newspapers & journals; Awarded coveted "Jamna Devi Gian Devi Award for Journalism, Gold Medal for Oration at JIPMER, Puducherry, and Outstanding Personality Award, 2009; Has flair for Writing; Newspaper Columnist
Favourite Pastime and Recreation
Reading biographies, Writing on Medical as well as topical subjects, Listening to old film music from 1950s and early 1960s (Favourites - Mehdi Hasan, Mohd Rafi, Begum Akhtar).
Other Information
Professor, Medicine & Diabetes, 1986-2011
