KUNDU, SHRI SAMARENDRA, B.Sc., LL.B. (Janata Daf-Orissa, Balasore, 1989):  s. of Late Sitanath Kundu; b at Balasore District, Orissa, October 5, 1930; ed, at Ravenshaw College, Cuttack and M.S. Law College Cuttack; m. Dipti Biswal Kundu, December, 23, 1982; Lawyer, Journalist, Political and Social Worker, Teacher; 

Public Offices held:  Union Minister of State, External Affairs, August 1977-July 1979;

Prev. Association with Political Parties:  Gen. Secy. Samajvadi Yuvak Sabha, 1964—68; Secy. SP, 1974-77; Executive Member, PSP, SP, JP, 1967—88; 

Committee Experience:  Member, Consultative Committee, Steel 1967-70, Estimates Committee, 1968-70; Chairman, Committee on Environment and Forests, June 7, 1990; Member, General Purposes Committee, August 7, 1990 and Consultative Committee, Department of Atomic Energy, Space, Electronics, Ocean Development and Ministry of Science and Technology, 1990; 

Favourite Pastime and Recreation:  Reading and writing music, theatre and art;

Publications:  Articles in newspapers, wrote poems;

Delegation to Foreign countries:  Member, National Union of Students to Afro-Asian Students conference at Bangdung, 1954, Delegate of SYS to IUSY Conference at Vienna, 1960, at Colombo, 1968 and at Oslo, Delegate to World Youth Conference at Tokyo, 1968; attended 36th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference at Harare and World Conference on Environment and Ecology, North Korea in October 1990;

Travels Abroad:  U.K. U.S.A., France, Switzerland, Guyana, Vietnam, Japan, Zambia, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Moscow;

Special Interests:  Peace Movement, International Economics, trade union movement, rural development, disarmament, education, ecology and environment; 

Sports and Clubs:  Cricket;

Social Activities:  Socio-cultural development of adivasis and rural poor, adult education, improvement of medical facilities,; President, Janavikash Kendra, Mayurbhanj, Orissa;

Other Information:  Imprisonment in 1955 during the States Reorganisation Movement, in 1969 for Satyagraha before the British High Commission demanding freedom of South Africa and Rhodesia and in 1970 for launching the movement for distribution of land to the landless, arrested under MISA during 1975—77; President, All India Hind Mazdoor Sabha, 1989; President India-Africa Centre, New Delhi; Member, ICWA, August 9, 1990;

Permanent Address:  At Soelpur Street, P.O. & Distt. Balasore Orissa.