Till 1977 |
Joint Secretary, Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Bihar |
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1977 |
Elected to 6th Lok Sabha |
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1977-79 |
Chairman, Sub-Committee on Hindi, Department of Steel and Mines |
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Union Minister of State, Steel and Mines |
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1980 onwards |
Member, Central Working Committee, Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.) |
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1982-84 |
Member, Bihar Legislative Assembly |
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Member, Tribal Welfare Committee |
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1989 |
Re-elected to 9th Lok Sabha (2nd term) |
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1990-91 |
Member, Standing Committee on Science and Technology; and Environment and Forests |
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Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Industry |
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1991 |
Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (3rd term) |
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1991-93 |
Member, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes |
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1992 onwards |
President, Tribal Cell, B.J.P. |
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1994-96 |
Member, Standing Committee on Urban and Rural Development |
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1994-98 |
President, All India Scheduled Tribes Front, B.J.P. |
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1996 |
Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (4th term) |
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16 May-1 Jun. 1996 |
Union Cabinet Minister, Welfare |
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1996-97 |
Member, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes |
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Member, Standing Committee on Energy |
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Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Energy |
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1998 |
Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (5th term) |
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1998-99 |
Chairman, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes; and its Sub-Committee on Monitoring and Implementation of reservation orders in respect of SCs and STs |
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Member, Standing Committee on Food, Civil Supplies and Public Distribution; and its Sub-Committee-B on Department of Sugar and Edible Oils |
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Member, General Purposes Committee |
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Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Civil Aviation |
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1999 |
Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (6th term) |
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1999-2000 |
Member, Standing Committee on Communications |
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2000-2001 |
Member, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes |
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2000- Sep. 2001 |
Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Mines and Minerals |
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1 Sep. 2001 – 29 Jan. 2003 |
Union Cabinet Minister, Agro and Rural Industries |
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29 Jan. 2003 – 09 Jan. 2004 |
Union Cabinet Minister, Coal |
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9 Jan. 2004-22 May 2004 |
Minister, Non-Conventional Energy Sources |
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2005-2009 |
Member, Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha |
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2009 |
Re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha (7th term) |
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8 Jun. 2009 |
Deputy Speaker, Lok Sabha |
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04 Sep. 2009 |
Chairman, Joint Committee on Security in Parliament Complex |
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10 Sep. 2009 |
Chairman, Committee on Budget |
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23 Sep. 2009 |
Chairman, Committee on Private Members` Bills and Resolutions |
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Chairman, Library Committee |
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19 Oct. 2009 |
Member, General Purposes Committee |
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21 Dec. 2009 |
Chairman, Committee on Provision of Computers for MPs, Offices of Political Parties in Lok Sabha and Officers of Lok Sabha Secretariat |
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Vice-President, Executive Committee of Indian Parliamentary Group |
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Vice-President, Parliamentary Forum on Children |
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Vice-President, Parliamentary Forum on Water Conservation and Management |
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Vice-President, Parliamentary Forum on Youth |
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Vice-President, Parliamentary Forum on Population and Public Health |
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Vice-President, Parliamentary Forum on Global Warming and Climate Change |
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May, 2014 |
Re-elected to 16th Lok Sabha (8th term) |
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14 Aug. 2014 – 30 April 2016 |
Member Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes |
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1 Sep. 2014 onwards |
Member, Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment |
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Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Coal |
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15 Sep. 2014 onwards |
Member, Committee on Ethics |
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