I.K. Gujral
12th Prime Minister
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| I.K. Gujral |
Birth : 4 December 1919
Shri Inder Kumar Gujral was confirmed as the twelfth Prime Minister of India on Monday, the 21st of April, 1997.
Child of Late Shri Avtar Narain Gujral and Late Smt. Pushpa Gujral, Shri Gujral is M.A., B.Com. Ph.D. and D.Litt. (Hons. Causa). He was conceived at Jhelum (in unified Punjab) on fourth December 1919. He and Smt. Shiela Gujral were hitched on May 26, 1945.
Shri Gujral has a place with a group of political dissidents: the two his folks took an interest in the opportunity battle in Punjab. At the youthful age of eleven, he himself effectively took an interest in the opportunity battle in 1931 and was captured and seriously beaten by the police for sorting out development of little youngsters in the Jhelum town. In 1942, he was imprisoned during the Quit India Movement.
Prior to expecting the workplace of the Prime Minister of India, Shri Gujral was the Minister of External Affairs from June 1, 1996 and held extra charge of the Ministry of Water Resources from June 28, 1996. He was the Minister of External Affairs prior during 1989-1990. He was Ambassador of India to U.S.S.R. (Bureau Rank) from 1976-1980 and held the accompanying Ministerial situations from 1967-1976:
1. Pastor of interchanges and Parlamentry Affairs;
2. Pastor of Information and Broadcast and Communication;
3. Pastor of Works and Housing;
4. Pastor of Information and Broadcasting;
5. Pastor of arranging.
Pioneer of the House, Rajya Sabha from June 1996; Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce and Textiles, 1993 to April 1996; Member of Parliamentary Standing Committee for External Affairs – till April 1996; Member of Parliament 1964 to 1976, 1989 to 1991; reappointed to Rajya Sabha in 1992 from Bihar; Member, Committee on Petitions, Public Accounts Committee, Committee on Rules, Rajya Sabha; Committee on Subordinate Legislation, Rajya Sabha; General Purposes Committee, Rajya Sabha; Standing Committee on External Affairs.
Administrator, Indian Council of South Asian Co-activity; Member of the Capital Plan Monitoring Committee; previous President of the Institute of Defense Studies and Analysis (IDSA); Chairman of the official Committee for the Promotion of Urdu (Gujral Committee); Vice-President of the New Delhi Municipal gathering 1959-64; President Lahore Students Union; General Secretary of the Punjab Students Federation; Convenor and Spokesman of United Front of the Opposition Parties Conclave at Calcutta, Srinagar and Delhi.
Pioneer of the Indian Delegation to United Nations General Assembly – 1996; Leader of the Indian Delegation to UN Session of Human Rights, Geneva 1995; Leader of the Indian Delegation in the UN General Assembly 1990 and Leader of the Indian Delegation at the UN Special Session of Economic Development 1990; Member, Indian Delegation to UNO 1995 and 1994; Leader of the Indian Delegation to UNESCO Conference on Education and Environment, 1977; Alternate Leader of the Indian Delegation to the UNESCO Session in 1970, 1972 and 1974; Chairman, UNESCO Seminar on Man and Communication Systems, Paris 1973 newly Delegate Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference-Bucharest 1995; Delegate – Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference, Canada 19194; Delegate – Inter-Parliamentary Union Meeting Canberra (Australia) 1967; Alternate Leader of Indian Delegation to the UN Session on Environment, Stockholm 1974; Special Envoy of India to Gabon, Cameroon, Congo, Chad and Republic of Central Africa 1975; Special Envoy of India to the debut of the Republic of Malawi 1966; Special Envoy to Bulgaria 1961; Union Minister in participation to President of India during State Visits to Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Egypt and Sudan; Chairman – Indian Council of South Asian Co-activity; Co-Chairman Asian Rotary Conference 1961.
Memorial schools and trust's like " Nari Niketan" and "A.N. Gujral Memorial" Jalandhar (Punjab); President, and also Indo-Pak Friendship Society; Founder President of Delhi Art Theater; Vice-President of Lok Kalyan Samiti; President of Rotary Club of Delhi 1960; Co-Chairman of the Asian Rotary Conference in 1961.
Shri Gujral has been an author and reporter on National and International Affairs, just as theater.
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