Party Name : Samajwadi Party
Constituency : Firozabad-SC
State : Uttar Pradesh
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 4 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 14
Father's Name : Shri Gajadhar Singh
Mother's Name : Smt. Gendo Devi
Date of birth : 25 Jul 1950
Profession : Agriculturist Advocate
Positions held :
- Member, National Executive, Samajwadi Yuvjan Sabha- Senior Vice-President, Janata Party, Uttar Pradesh (for 4 years)- General Secretary, Janata Party, Uttar Pradesh (for 5 years)- Member, National Committee, Janata Party, Uttar Pradesh (for 9 years)1977-79 Elected to 6th Lok SabhaMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs1989 Re-elected to 9th Lok Sabha (2nd term)Member, Committee on Government AssurancesMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs1990 Union Minister of State, Labour and Welfare1996 onwards National General Secretary, Samajwadi Party1999 Re- Elected to 13th Lok Sabha (3rd term)1999-2000 Member, Committee on EnergyMember, Business Advisory CommitteeMember, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled TribesMember, Committee on Home AffairsMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Social Justice and EmpowermentMember, Joint Parliamentary Committee on Security in Parliament House ComplexMember, Hindi Advisory Committee, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilisers2004 Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha( 4th term)Member, Committee on Petroleum & Natural GasMember, Business Advisory CommitteeMember, Committee on Subordinate LegislationMember, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled TribesMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Environment and Forests5 Aug. 2007 onwards Member, Committee on Petroleum & Natural Gas
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Special Interests
Rural sports, reciting Urdu poetry, keen interest in parliamentary proceedings
Countries Visited
Australia (as a member of Indian Parliamentary Delegation), Hong Kong, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Syria , U.K. and U.S.A. (New York represented India in the United Nations twice)
Other Information
Actively participated in Samajwadi movement since student life; went to jail several times for demosnstrating for the cause of farmers, labours, minorities and Dalits; imprisoned during the entire emergency period