Thursday, June 19, 2014

Sumitra Mahajan Political career



She contested for the first time and won the Lok Sabha Elections in 1989, against former Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Prakash Chandra Sethi. She has brought many projects for Indore from Railways, Aviation, Urban Development Ministry. She is known for simplicity, honesty and clean politics. She has a clean track record and has always maintained distances from Special Interest Group. She is popularly known as Tai, among people of her constituency.

1984-85 Deputy Mayor, Municipal Corporation, Indore

1989 Elected to 9th Lok Sabha

1990-91 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Health and Family WelfarePresident, Mahila Morcha, Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.), Madhya Pradesh

1991 Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (2nd term)

1991-92 Member, Joint Committee for 73rd Constitution Amendment Bill

1991-93 Member, Joint Committee for Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Bill, 1991

1991-96 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Communications

1992-94 Vice-President, B.J.P., Madhya Pradesh

1995-96 Secretary, B.J.P., Parliamentary Board

Chairman, Parliamentary Board, Madhya Pradesh

1996 Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (3rd term)

1996 onwards Secretary, B.J.P.

1997 Member, Committee on Public Accounts

1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (4th term)

1998 onwards General-Secretary, B.J.P.

1998-99 Convenor, Sub-Committee on Drug Control, Committee on Human Resource Development Member, Committee on Human Resource Development and its Sub-Committee-I on Value-based Education Member, Joint Committee on the Empowerment of Women and its Sub-Committee on Appraisal of Laws relating to Women—Criminal Laws Member, Committee on Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADs) Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Human Resource Development

1999 Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (5th term)

Oct. 1999- Jun. 2002 Union Minister of State, Ministry of Human Resource Development

Jul. 2002 - May 2003 Union Minister of State, Ministry of Communication & Information Technology

24 May 2003- May 2004 Union Minister of State, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

2004 Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha( 6th term)

2004-2009 Member, General Purposes Committee Chairperson, Commmittee on Social Justice and Empowerment Member, Panel of Chairmen

2005 Prabhari, Mahilla Morcha, B.J.P. Member, Consultative Committee on Civil Aviation

5 Aug. 2007 - May 2009 Chairperson, Standing Committee on Social Justice & Empowerment 2009 Re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha (7th term)

Jun. 2009 Member, Panel of Chairmen

31 Aug. 2009 Chairperson, Standing Committee on Rural Development

23 Sep. 2009 Member, Committee on Empowerment of Women

On 6 June 2014, Mahajan was elected as the Speaker of the 16th Lok Sabha




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