Name of Member: Shri Mahabir Prasad
Political Party: Indian National Congress
Constituency & State: Bansgaon-SC (SC)(Uttar Pradesh)
Lok Sabha Experience: 7,8,9,14
Fourteenth Lok Sabha
Members Bioprofile
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| Constituency : |
Bansgaon -SC (Uttar Pradesh) |
| Party Name : |
Indian National Congress (INC) |
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| Father’s Name |
Late Shri Amar Prasad |
| Mother’s Name |
Late Smt. Bartani Devi |
| Date of Birth |
11 Nov 1939 |
| Place of Birth |
Ujjarpar, Distt. Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) |
| Marital Status |
Married |
| Date of Marriage |
03 Apr 1959 |
| Spouse’s Name |
Late Smt. Udasi Devi |
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| No.of Daughters |
2 |
Educational
Qualifications |
M.A. (Geography), B.Ed. and LL.B.
Educated at Gorakhpur University and Lucknow University (Uttar Pradesh) |
| Profession |
Agriculturist
Teacher, Educationist, Social Worker |
| Permanent Address |
| Village Ujjarpar, |
| Distt. Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) |
| Tel. (0551)2320988 |
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| Present Address |
| 1, Tyagraj Marg, |
| New Delhi – 110 001 |
Tels. (011) 23012745, 23015924 (R), 23061739, 23062778 (O)
Fax: (011) 23015598 (R), 23063141 (O) |
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| Positions Held |
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| 1958 |
Member, Gram Panchayat, Ujjarpar |
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| 1960 |
Sarpanch, Sadhan Co-operative Society, Ujjarpar |
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| 1962 |
Member, Gagaha Area Society |
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| 1963 |
Member, Gorakhpur Zilla Parishad |
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General Secretary Gorakhpur Zilla Congress Committee |
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| 1974-77 |
Member, Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly |
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| 1974-79 |
General Secretary, PCC, later PCC (I), Uttar Pradesh |
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| 1980 |
Elected to 7th Lok Sabha
Member, Estimates Committee for 2 years
Member, Public Accounts Committee for 1 year |
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| 1983-85 |
Vice-President, PCC (I), Uttar Pradesh |
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| 1984 |
Re-elected to 8th Lok Sabha (2nd term) |
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| 1985-86, 1987-88, 1992-94 |
President, Congress Working Committee, Uttar Pradesh |
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| Feb. 1988-July 1989 |
Union Deputy Minister, Railways |
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| July 1989 – Dec. 1989 |
Minister of State, Mines and Steel, Department of Mines |
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| 1989 |
Re-elected to 9th Lok Sabha (3rd term) |
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| 1990 |
Member, Committee on Government Assurances |
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Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Railways |
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| 1990 & 2001 |
General Secretary, All India Congress Committee (I) |
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Member, All India Congress (I) Central Election Committee |
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| 14 June 1995-2000 |
Governor, Haryana |
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| 18 Sept.95-16 Nov.95 and 23 April 96-26 July 97 |
Held additional charge of the Governor of Himachal Pradesh |
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| 2004 |
Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha |
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| 22 May Onwards |
Union Cabinet Minister, Small Scale Industries and Agro & Rural Industries |
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| Books Published |
| Rashtriya Chetna Aur Atmasadhana (in Hindi) |
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| Social And Cultural Activities |
| Propagated the policies of Congress as a student leader; worked for the welfare of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, minorities and oppressed; Chairman, District Social Welfare Committee, 1963 |
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| Special Interests |
| Dissemination of education in the lower strata of society |
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| Favourite Pastime and Recreation |
| Reading, horticulture, agriculture, tourism and social service |
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| Sports and Clubs |
| Volleyball, kabbadi and football |
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| Countries Visited |
| Nepal, Mauritius, U.A.E. (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah) |
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| Other Information |
| Continously endeavouring selflessly to provide social justice to the opressed sections of society and promoting women upliftment through education; works for communal harmony and national integration, promoting love for fraternity and feelings of peaceful co-existance; presently engaged in furthering ancient Indian ideals and cultural heritage; striving continously to let Hindi get its due place as national language since national language is the representative of country`s collective consciousness; working on eradicating illiteracy from the society, protecting environment through afforestation, and advocating control of population explosion by way of lectures oranised in Haryana and the rest of the country; President, Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Memorial Institute; awarded Babu Jagjivan Ram Award, 1996-97 by All India Scheduled Castes Council in Amritsar on 1 August 1996; donated the cash amount of the award to Baba Bhimrao Amebedkar Memorial Institute; firm believer in the ideals, principles and policies of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and Babu Jagjivan Ram; engaged in the task of nation building by harmonising the ideologies of past leaders; worked as a lecturer at Gandhi Inter College, Mahnapur, Gorakhpur and taught there for 34 years; started his public and political life with active participation in Panchyati Raj Institutions and infrastructural units of democrarcy; demonstrated his political and administrative skills in organisation and administration of these institutes |
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