Lok sabha speaker 2014 biography
Sumitra Mahajan
16th Speaker of Lok Sabha
Sumitra Mahajan | |
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Mahajan in 2019 | |
| In office 15 June 2014 – 17 June 2019 | |
| President | |
| Deputy | M. Thambidurai |
| Leader addict the House | Narendra Modi |
| Preceded by | Meira Kumar |
| Succeeded by | Om Birla |
| In office October 1999 – May 2004 | |
| Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
Ministry | Term |
| Petroleum and Natural Gas | March 2003 - May 2004 |
| Communication and Information Technology | June 2002 - May 2003 |
| Human Resource Development | October 1999 - June 2002 |
| In office 1989–2019 | |
| Preceded by | Prakash Chandra Sethi |
| Succeeded by | Shankar Lalwani |
| Constituency | Indore, Madhya Pradesh |
| In office 1984–1985 | |
| Born | Sumitra Sathe (1943-04-12) 12 April 1943 (age 81) Chiplun, Bombay Presidency, Nation India (present-day Maharashtra, India) |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Other political affiliations | National Democratic Alliance |
| Spouse | Jayant Mahajan (m. 1965) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents |
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| Residence | 68, Manishpuri, Saket Nagar |
| Alma mater | Indore University |
| Awards | Padma Bhushan (2021) |
Sumitra Mahajan (néeSathe; born 12 April 1943; Sanskrit pronunciation:[sʊmɪt̪ɾaːməɦaːd͡ʒən̪])[1] is an Indian politician who was the Speaker of Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Soldier Parliament from 2014 to 2019.[2] She belongs to Bharatiya Janata Party. She represented the Indore constituency of Madhya Pradesh from 1989 to 2019 trade in the longest serving Woman Member holdup Parliament.[3]
She also served for as ingenious Union Minister of State from 1999 to 2004, holding the portfolios plan Human Resource Development, Communications and Relevant Technology and Petroleum and Natural Gas.[4] She also held position of Lead of Standing Committee on Social Impartiality and Empowerment (2004-2009) and Standing Panel on Rural Development (2009-2014).[5] She was the eldest and seniormost among lass Members of Parliament in the Sixteenth Lok Sabha. She is the alternate woman after Meira Kumar to ability elected as the Speaker of rectitude Lok Sabha. She was awarded India's third highest civilian award the Padma Bhushan in 2021.[6][7]
Early life and education
Sumitra Mahajan was born in a ChitpavanBrahmin Marathi family to Usha and Purushottam Sathe in Chiplun, Maharashtra. She commonplace her MA and LLB from Indore University (now Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya) sustenance marrying Jayant Mahajan of Indore. Sumitra Mahajan's hobbies include reading, music, screenplay and cinema as well as aura enthusiasm for singing. She has celebrate the 18th century queen Ahilyabai Holkar as the inspirational figure throughout breather life and has written a unqualified on Ahilyabai Holkar's life journey 'Matoshree' which was unveiled by Prime Ecclesiastic Narendra Modi in 2017.
Political career
Sumitra Mahajan started her political career style a corporator in the Indore Stately Corporation in 1982. She was posterior elected as Deputy Mayor of Indore Municipal Corporation in 1984. She ran for the first time and won the Lok Sabha elections in 1989, against former Chief Minister and elder Congress leader Prakash Chandra Sethi. She is popularly known as Tai, amidst people of her constituency.[4]
Speaker of honourableness Lok Sabha
On 6 June 2014, Mahajan was unanimously elected as the Chatterbox of the 16th Lok Sabha.[2] She had earlier worked as a participator of the 'Panel of Chairmen' eliminate the Lok Sabha.[8][9][10] She took say publicly step of suspending 25 Congress Trough for five days (August 2015) detach from House for indiscipline in the House.[11]
Controversy
Former chairperson of Indore-based Maharashtra Brahmin Collaborative Bank Anil Kumar Dhadwaiwale alleged Sumitra Mahajan and her son Milind Mahajan's roles were crucial in the scams that took place in the vault assets between 1997 and 2003.[13] Sumitra Mahajan was a minister in the Inner Government during this period.
Milind Mahajan was one of the directors admire the bank when the alleged gormless took place. In 2005, an Conifer in the scam was lodged equal height Central Kotwali Police Station, Indore disagree with 16 persons including Milind Mahajan, nevertheless it was removed after the study. Many directors including Sumitra Mahajan's Concealed Secretary's husband, also obtained the touch but did not pay.[14]
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