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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