Shri Raghunath Keshav Khadilkar Member of Parliament (MP) from Baramati (Maharashtra) Biodata

Name of Member: Shri Raghunath Keshav Khadilkar

Political Party: Congress

Constituency & State: Baramati (Maharashtra)

Lok Sabha Experience: 2,3,4,5

Fifth Lok Sabha

Members Bioprofile 

KHADILKAR, SHRI R. K., B.A., LL.B., (Cong.) Maharashtra-Baramati- 1971, Son of Shri Keshav Babaji Khadilkar; b. at Naringa, Taluk Devgad, Distt. Ratnagiri, Maharashtra State, December 15, 1905; ed. at Ferguson and Law Colleges of Poona, University of Bombay; m. Dr. Chapala R. Khadilkar, August 13, 1936; 4 d.; Social and Political Worker, Served several terms of imprisonment between 1930 and 1945; Joined Youths League Movement in 1928 and became Secretary, Maharashtra Youth Congress in 1931; One of the founder Members of the Congress Socialist Party in 1934; Publicity Secretary, Faizpur Session of the Indian National Congress in 1936; Member, (i) Indian National Congress 1930-48 and since 1962, and (ii) Maharashtra Provincial Congress Committee and its Peasants Inquiry Committee which drafted the agrarian programme of the Faizpur Session; Left Congress in 1948 and organised along with other colleagues the “All India Peasants” and Workers’ Party” and was elected its General Secretary in 1953; Took a leading part in forming the “All India Mazdoor Kisan Party” a coalition of seven leftist organisations in 1955 and was elected Secretary Convener of the Central Committee of the Organisation; Rejoined Congress in 1962 consequent on the merger of the “Mazdoor Kisan Party” with the Congress; Member (i) Poona Municipality, 1945-50, (ii) Poona University Court, (iii) Executive Committee, Poona Branch of the Indian Council of World Affairs; Delegate to the Asian Peace Conference held in China in 1952; Delegate to the World Agricultural and Forestry Workers Conference held in Vienna in 1953; Member, (i) Second Lok Sabha, 1957-62, (ii) Estimates Committee, 1957-58, (iii) Third Lok Sabha, 1962-67, and (iv) Public Accounts Committee, 1962-63 and 1963-64 and also its Chairman for some time; Chairman, Study Team appointed by the Government to examine the Iron and Steel Control Organisation; Member of Parliamentary Delegation to U.S.A. in 1963; Member of Delegation to the Middle Eastern countries in 1965; Member, Fourth Lok Sabha, 1967-70; Deputy Speaker, Lok Sabha, March 28, 1967-November 1, 1969; Minister of Supply and Minister in the Ministry of Finance, November, 1969-June, 1970; Minister of Supply June 1970-March, 1971; Minister of Labour and Rehabilitation, 1971.

Favourite pastime and recreation.—Reading.

Special interests.—International affairs and the socio-economic development in the under-developed regions of Africa and Asia.

Books published.—”Nava Cheenchya Nirmitichi Roop Rekha” an outline of the developments in China after liberation.

Travels abroad.–U.K., France, West Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Itlay, U.S.S.R., U.S.A., Japan, China and German Democratic Republic, U.A.R., Rumania, Middle East countries.

Permanent address.—”Pushpak”, Laxmi Road, 200, Narayan Peth, Poona-30, Maharashtra.

 


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