1969 |
Member, Bihar Legislative Assembly |
1977-79 |
Member, Sixth Lok Sabha (Name recorded in Guninees Book of World Records in 1977 for winning elections to the Sixth Lok Sabha from Hajipur by highest margin of4,24,545 votes. |
1980-84 |
Member, Seventh Lok Sabha (2nd term) Leader of Lok Dal (K), Lok Sabha |
1989-91 |
Member, Ninth Lok Sabha (3rd term) Union Cabinet Minister, Labour and Welfare |
1991-96 |
Member, Tenth Lok Sabha (4th term) Member, Business Advisory Committee Member, Committee on Home Affairs |
1996-98 |
Member, Eleventh Lok Sabha (5th term) Leader of the House, Lok Sabha (during the tenure of both the PM’s) Union Cabinet Minister, Railways Minister, Parliamentary Affairs |
1998-99 |
Member, Twelfth Lok Sabha (6th term) Leader, Janata Dal Parliamentary Party
Member, General Purposes Committee
Member, Committee on Railways
Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Home Affairs |
1999-2004 |
Member, Thirteenth Lok Sabha (7th term) Union Cabinet Minister, Communications Union Cabinet Minister, Coal and Mines |
2004-2009 |
Member, Fourteenth Lok Sabha (8th term) Union Cabinet Minister, Chemicals and Fertilizers; Steel |
July 2010 |
Elected to Rajya Sabha
Member, Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Member, Committee on Petitions
Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Urban Development and Ministry of HRD |
16 May 2014 |
Re-elected in 16th Lok Sabha (9th term) |
27 May 2014 to 30 May, 2019 |
Union Cabinet Minister, Consumer Affair, Food & Public Distribution |
30 May, 2019 onwards |
Union Cabinet Minister, Consumer Affair, Food & Public Distribution |
Sports, Clubs, Favourite
Pastime and Recreation |
Chess |
Countries Visited |
Widely travelled |
Other Information |
Founder & President:
Lok Jan Shakti Party
Since 28th November, 2000
Chairman,
International Dalit and Minority Front
Chief Editor,
Nyaya Chakra since 1989
Chairman,
Vichar Shakti, since 2002
Secretary, Samyukta Socialist Party, Bihar, 1970;
General Secretary,
- Lok Dal, Bihar, 1974 and
- National General Secretary Lok Dal,1985-86
Founder President,
Dalit Sena since -1983
National General Secretary,
- Janata Party, 1987-88 and
- Janata Dal, 1988-90;
Secretary,
National Front, 1988-90;
Member,
- Welfare Committee,1977-78,
- DDA Advisory Council, 1980-85,
- Parliamentary Committee on Official Language,1980-85 and 1989-95,
- AIIMS Advisory Committee, 1991-96, and
- Court of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1998-99;
- National Dalit and Minority Front
- Chairman, International Dalit and Minorities Forum, 1994
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