Sushilkumar Shinde

Sushilkumar Shinde

Sushilkumar Shinde (Marathi: सुशीलकुमार शिंदे) (born September 4, 1941, Solapur, Maharashtra) is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He is currently the Cabinet Minister for Power in the Manmohan Singh government.[1]

Dalit background

He belongs to "Dhor Kakkaya"(DHOR s in Maharastra ), Dalit caste. He is leader of Congress Party. He is the first Dalit caste person to have become the Chief Minister of Maharashtra. He served as Chief Minister from January 18, 2003.

Encouraged by Sharad Pawar, he quit his sub-inspector's job to enter politics in 1971. He contested an assembly by-election from Karmala,Reserved Constituency For SC in Solapur three years later and won by 25,000 votes. In November that year, the late V P Naik, then the chief minister, made Shinde a junior minister in his government.

Shinde rejoined the Congress Party and the congress party and became the finance minister in new Vasantrao Patil government. Later he won Maharashtra State Assembly elections in 1978, 1980, 1985 and 1990.[2]

He was elected to Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra during July 1992 to March 1998. .[3]

He acted as Sonia Gandhi's campaign manager in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh in 1999.

In 2002, he contested the election for the post of Vice-President of India against the National Democratic Alliance's candidate Bhairon Singh Shekhawat and lost.

On October 30, 2004, he was appointed the Governor of Andhra Pradesh. He replaced Surjit Singh Barnala, who became the Governor of Tamil Nadu. He served as governor for slightly more than one year before resigning and leaving office on January 29, 2006.

Shinde was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha for second time from Maharashtra on March 20, 2006.[4][5][6]

References

  1. ^ "Council of Ministers - Who's Who - Government: National Portal of India". http://india.gov.in. Government of India. http://india.gov.in/govt/cabinet.php. Retrieved 11 August 2010. 
  2. ^ "State Elections 2004 - Partywise Comparison for 218-North Solapur Constituency of Maharashtra". Eci.nic.in. http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/electionanalysis/AE/S13/partycomp218.htm. Retrieved 2010-08-26. 
  3. ^ "Rajya Sabha members". http://164.100.47.5/Newmembers/alphabeticallist_all_terms.aspx. Retrieved 2009-12-31. 
  4. ^ "Arjun, Bhardwaj, Shinde elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha", Tribuneindia.com, March 20, 2006.
  5. ^ "We are talking of a lifestyle sans God - Lifestyle - DNA". Dnaindia.com. 2009-12-24. http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_we-are-talking-of-a-lifestyle-sans-god_1326966. Retrieved 2010-08-26. 
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Political offices
Preceded by
Suresh Prabhu		 Minister of Power
?-present		 Incumbent
Preceded by
Vilasrao Deshmukh		 Chief Minister of Maharashtra
16 Jan 2003 - 1 Nov 2004		 Succeeded by
Vilasrao Deshmukh
Government offices
Preceded by
Surjit Singh Barnala		 Governor of Andhra Pradesh
2004-2006		 Succeeded by
Rameshwar Thakur