1973-76 |
Vice-President, Pradesh Youth Congress, Meghalaya |
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1974-75 |
General-Secretary, Pradesh Youth Congress, Meghalaya |
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1975-80 |
General-Secretary, Pradesh Congress Committee [P.C.C. (I)], Meghalaya |
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1977 |
Elected to 6th Lok Sabha |
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1980 |
Re-elected to 7th Lok Sabha (2nd term) |
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Joint Secretary, All India Congress Committee (Indira) [A.I.C.C.(I)] |
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1980-82 |
Union Deputy Minister, Industry |
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1982-84 |
Union Deputy Minister, Commerce |
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1984 |
Re-elected to 8th Lok Sabha (3rd term) |
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Nov.-Dec. 1984 |
Union Deputy Minister, Commerce |
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Jan.-March 1985 |
Union Minister of State, Commerce and Supply |
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March-Sept. 1985 |
Union Minister of State, Commerce |
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1985-86 |
Union Minister of State, Home Affairs |
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1986-88 |
Union Minister of State, Labour (Independent Charge) |
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1988-90 |
Chief Minister, Meghalaya |
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1988-91 |
Member, Meghalaya Legislative Assembly |
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1990-91 |
Leader of the Opposition, Meghalaya Legislative Assembly |
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1991 |
Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (4th term) |
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1991-93 |
Union Minister of State, Coal (Independent Charge) |
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1993-95 |
Union Minister of State, Labour (Independent Charge) |
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Feb.-Sept. 1995 |
Union Cabinet Minister, Labour |
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1995-96 |
Union Cabinet Minister, Information and Broadcasting |
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1996 |
Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (5th term) |
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1996-98 |
Speaker, Lok Sabha |
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Chairman, (i) Business Advisory Committee; (ii) Rules Committee; (iii) General Purposes Committee; (iv) Standing Committee of the Conference of Presiding Officers of the Legislative Bodies in India; and (v) Institute of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies; |
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President, (i) Indian Parliamentary Group, (ii) National Group of Inter-Parliamentary Union; and (iii) India Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association |
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1998 |
Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (6th term) |
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1998-99 |
Member, Committee on External Affairs and
its Sub-Committee-I |
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1998-2004 |
Vice-President, Indian Institute of Public Administration
Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of External Affairs |
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1999 |
Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (7th term) |
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1999 – 2004 |
Founder Member and General Secretary of Nationalist Congress Party |
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1999-2000 |
Member, Committee on Labour and Welfare |
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Feb. 2000 – 2002 |
Member, National Commission to Review the Working of the Constitution |
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June 2000-2002 |
Member, National Commission on Population |
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2002 |
Member, Committee on External Affairs |
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2003-2004 |
Member, Committee on Home Affairs |
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2004 – 2005 |
Nationalist Trinamool Congress |
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2004 |
Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha ( 8th term) (resigned from Lok Sabha on 10.10.2005 as a member of All India Trinamool Congress) |
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Member, Committee on External Affairs |
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Member, Committee on Private Members Bills and Resolutions |
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Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs |
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December, 2005 |
Nationalist Congress Party |
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23 Feb. 2006 |
Re-elected to Lok Sabha as N.C.P. candidate |
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Sept. 2006 4 March 2016 |
General Secretary, NCP |
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20 March 2008 |
Resigned from Lok Sabha |
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2008 – 2012 |
Member, Meghalaya Legislative Assembly |
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Chairman, Meghalaya State Planning Board |
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2012 |
Presidential Candidate |
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January 2013 |
Founder of National People`s Party |
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May, 2014 |
Re-elected to 16th Lok Sabha (9th term) |
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1 Sep. 2014 – 4 March 2016 |
Member, Standing Committee on Energy |
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Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region |
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25 May 2015 – 4 March 2016 |
Member, National Monitoring Committee for the Education of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Persons With Disabilities |
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