Party Name : Congress
Constituency : Jullundur
State : Punjab
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 4 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 5
More Information :
SWARAN SINGH, SARDAR, M.Sc., LL.B., (Cong.) Punjab-Jullundur— 1971, Son of Sardar Pratap Singh; b. at Vill Shankar, Distt. Jullundur, August 19, 1907; ed. at Randhir College, Kapurthala, Government College, Lahore and Law College, Lahore; m. Sardarni Charan Kaur, 1930; 4 d; Advocate; Member, Punjab Legislative Assembly, 1946-52; Parliamentary Secretary in the State Government, 1946; Minister of Development, Food and Civil Supplies, Punjab, 1946-47; Member, Partition Committee to divide assets of partioned Punjab; between 1947 and 1952, served several times as a Minister in the Government of Punjab; Member, Rajya Sabha and Minister of Works, Housing and Supply, Government of India, 1952—57; Leader, Indian Delegation to the Sessions of U.N. Economic and Social Council held in Geneva, 1954 and 1955; Member, Second Lok Sabha, 1957—62 and Minister of Steel, Mines and Fuel, Government of India; Led a delegation; to USSR to negotiate a large Soviet credit for India's development plans in May, 1959; led an Economic Delegation to Japan in May, 1961; represented India at the Indo-Pakistan Conference on border problems held in October, 1959 and January, 1960; assisted late Prime Minister Nehru during the talks on the Sino-Indian border question with Mr. Chou-En-Lai at the time of Chinese leader's visit to New Delhi in 1960; took prominent part in the talks that preceded the signing of the Canal Waters Treaty betweeen India and Pakistan in 1960; Leader of the Indian delegation during six-rounds of the Indo-Pakistan talks on Kashmir and related problem during 1962-63; Led Indian delegation to Diakarta in April, 1964 for the preparatory meeting in connection with the Second Afro-Asian Conference; Member, Third Lok Sabha, 1962—67; Minister of Railways, 1962-63; Minister of Food and Agriculture, 1963-64; Minister of Industry and Supply, June-July, 1964 and Minister of External Affairs, 1964—66; After assuming office as Minister of External Affairs, paid goodwill visits to Afghanistan, Nepal, Burma and Ceylon; visited Cairo to attend the non-aligned Nations' Conference at the Foreign Ministers' level and assisted late Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in the General Session of the Conference in October, 1964; Leader of the Indian delegation to the United Nations, 1964 and 1965; Paid goodwill visits to Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and U.A.R. in June, 1965; Accompanied the late Prime Minister Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri on the latter's official visit to the USSR in May, 1965; Accompanied late Prime Minister Shri Shastri to Tashkent and assisted him in his talks with President Ayub Khan of Pakistan; Appointed Minister of Defence in November, 1966; Member, Fourth Lok Sabha, 1967—70; Re-appointed Minister of Defence on March 13, 1967; Visited Moscow for official talks with the Government of USSR in September, 1967; Led the Indian Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly Session, October, 1967, and 1970; Paid goodwill visits to (i) Baghdad in February, 1968; (ii) USSR in October, 1968 and October, 1969 and (iii) Algiers in May-June, 1970; Led the Indian delegation to the 49th Session of the United Nations Economic and Social Council in 1970; attended the Conference of non-aligned Countries at Lusaka in September, 1970; Accompanied the Prime Minister Shrimati Indira Gandhi to New York in connection with Silver Jubilee Celebrations of the United Nations in October, 1970; Paid a goodwill visit to Ankara in November, 1970; attended ECAFE Conference and Bilateral Talks between India and Iran at Kabul and Tehran in December, 1970; attended the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference at Singapore in January, 1971; at present Minister of External Affairs. Special interests.—Scientific and Technical subjects. Travels abroad.—Switzerland, Italy, France, Belgium, U.K., West Germany, Lebanon, USSR., Yugoslavia, U.S.A., Canada, Japan, Indonesia, Nepal, Ceylon, Afghanistan, Burma, Pakistan, Egypt, Syria, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Iraq, Algeria, Turkey, Iran and Singapore. Permanent address.—Jullundur City, Punjab.
