Shri Inder Kumar Gujral Member of Parliament (MP) from Jullundur (Punjab) Biodata

Name of Member: Shri Inder Kumar Gujral

Political Party: Janata Dal

Constituency & State: Jullundur (Punjab)

Lok Sabha Experience: 9,12

Biographical Sketch Member of Parliament 12th Lok Sabha



GUJRAL, SHRI INDER KUMAR
[JANATA DAL - JULLUNDUR (PUNJAB)]


Father's Name       	Late Shri Avtar Narain Gujral           

Date of Birth       	4 December 1919

Place of Birth      	Jhelum (Now in Pakistan)                          

Marital Status      	Married on 26 May 1945

Children            	Two sons

Educational Qualifications  

               B.Com., M.A.

               Educated at D.A.V. College, Haily College of Commerce
	       and Forman Christian College, Lahore (now in Pakistan)

Permanent Address  

               G-13 Maharani Bagh,                     
               New Delhi-110065                        

               Tel. (011) 6834002, 6834003                                           

Present Address   

	       5, Janpath,                        
	       New Delhi-110001 
             
	       Tel. (011) 3794433, 3014300   
	       Fax  (011) 3794444  
	       E-Mail -  [email protected]

Positions Held  

1959-64        Vice-President, New Delhi Municipal Council

1964-76        Member, Rajya Sabha (two terms)

1967-69        Union Minister of State, Parliamentary Affairs
               and Communications

1969-71        Union Minister of State, Information and
               Broadcasting and Communications

1971-72        Union Minister of State, Works, Housing and Urban
               Development

1972-75        Union Minister of State, Information and
               Broadcasting

1975-76        Union Minister of State, Planning

1976-80        India's Ambassadar to U.S.S.R. (Cabinet rank)

1989           Elected to 9th Lok Sabha

1989-90        Union Cabinet Minister, External Affairs

1992-98        Member, Rajya Sabha (3rd term)

1992-96        Member, Committee on External Affairs
       
               Member, Committee on Petitions

               Member, Public Accounts Committee

               Member, Committee on Rules

               Member, Committee on Subordinate Legislation

               Member, General Purposes Committee

1993-96        Chairman, Committee on Commerce and Textiles


June-Nov.1996 Leader of the House, Rajya Sabha
and April 1997 -
March 1998

1996-97        Union Cabinet Minister, External Affairs

June 1996      Union Cabinet Minister, Water Resources

Apri1 1997-    Prime Minister of India and also incharge of
March 1998     Ministries/Departments of Atomic Energy, Personnel
               Public Grievances and Pensions, Electronics,
               External Affairs, Jammu and Kashmir Affairs,
	       Ocean Development and Space, Urban Affairs and 
	       Employment, Petroleum and Natural Gas and Power, 
	       Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs and
	       Public Distribution, Finance and Labour, Health
	       and Family Welfare and Planning and Programme
	       Implementation

1998           Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (2nd term)

               Chairman, Committee on External Affairs and
	       its Sub-Committees (I,II and III)

	       Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of External
	       Affairs

Books Published

A Foreign Policy for India (in English); and Mazameen-e-Gujral
(in two parts)
 
Social and Cultural Activities  

President, Nari Niketan Trust and A.N. Gujral Memorial
School, Jalandhar, Punjab; Founder-President, Delhi Art
Theatre; and Vice-President, Lok Kalyan Samiti

Special Interests  

Author and commentator on national and international
affairs

Sports and Clubs  

Former President, Rotary Club, Delhi, 1960; and Co-Chairman,
Asian Rotary Conference, 1961; and Founder-Member, India
International Centre, New Delhi; Member, (i)Delhi Gymkhana Club;
and (ii) Golf Club, New Delhi

Countries Visited  

Widely travelled;  India's Special Envoy, (i) Bulguria, 1961;
(ii) Gabon, Cameroon, Congo, Chad and Republic of Central
Africa, 1975; and (iii) Republic of Malawi; Leader, 
Indian Delegation to (i) UNESCO Conference on Education 
and Environment, Tbilisi, 1977; (ii) UN Special Session 
on Economic Development, New York, 1990; (iii) UN General 
Assembly, New York, 1990; (iv) UN Session on Human Rights,
Geneva, 1995; and (v) UN General Assembly, New York, 1996; 
Alternate Leader, Indian Delegation to (i) UNESCO Session,
1970, 1972 and 1974; and (ii) UN Session on Environment, 
Stockholm, 1974; Chairman, UNESCO Seminar on "Man and 
New Communication Systems", Paris, 1973; Member, Indian
Delegation to UN, New York, 1994 and 1995; Member, Indian 
Parliamentay Delegation to, (i) Inter-Parliamentary Union 
(IPU) Conference, Canberra, 1967; (ii) Commonwealth 
Parliamentary Association Conference, Canada, 1994; and
(iii) 94th IPU Conference, Bucharest, 1995; Member, 
UNO Panel of `Eminent Persons' to study and report on 
situation in Algeria, 1998; and visited Sri Lanka, Bhutan,
Egypt and Sudan as Union Minister in attendance to the President 
of India

Other Information  

Belongs to a family of freedom fighters; parents
participated in the Freedom Struggle in Punjab; actively
participated in Freedom Struggle at the age of eleven; was
arrested and severely beaten up by the police in 1931 for
organising movement of young children in Jhelum town; and
imprisoned during Quit India Movement, 1942; Conferred,
(i) Ph. D. (Honorary) by Jamia Urdu University, Aligarh,
Uttar Pradesh; (ii) D. Litt. (Honorary) by Guru Nanak Dev
University, Amritsar, Punjab; and (iii) D. Litt (Honorary)
by Soka University, South Korea; Chairman, (i) Indian
Council of South Asian Co-operation; and (ii) Official
Committee for Promotion of Urdu (Gujral Committee);
President, India-Pakistan Friendship Society; Currently President,
Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA); Former
President, Lahore Students' Union; General-Secretary, Punjab
Students' Federation; Convenor and Spokesman, United Front
of the Opposition Parties Conclave at Calcutta, Srinagar and
Delhi; Chancellor (currently), Visva Bharati University, 
Shanti Niketan; and Member, (i)Capital Plan Monitoring Committee;
(ii)Senate, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar; and (iii) Senate,
Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi


Election Result of
Jullundur Lok Sabha Constituency  

Total electorate 	11,12,633
Total votes polled 	 6,50,836

Votes polled in favour of the first four leading candidates

(1) Shri Inder Kumar Gujral 	(J.D.)   3,80,785
(2) Shri Umrao Singh 		(I.N.C.) 2,49,769
(3) Shri Baldev Singh 		[B.S.P.(A)] 5,693
(4) Shri Gurdev Singh 		(Ind.)      3,160

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