Educational
Qualifications

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B.A., LL.B and Sahitya Visharad. Educated at Maharaja College, Jaipur; Agra University, Agra and Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, Prayag (Uttar Pradesh).

Profession

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Advocate and Agriculturist

Position Held

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Chairman, Municipal Board, Dausa – 1951-56

Pradhan, Panchayat Samiti – 1961-65

Elected to Lok Sabha (Fourth) – 1968

Re-elected to Lok Sabha (Fifth) – 1971

Secretary, Congress Parliamentary Party and Member, House Committee – 1971-72

Chairman, Committee on Public Undertakings – 1972-73

Chairman, Joint Select Committee on Companies (Amendment) Bill – 1972-74

Joint Secretary, AICC – 1974-77

Elected to Lok Sabha (7th) for the third time – 1980

President, I.N.T.U.C, Rajasthan – 1980-82.

President, Pradesh Congress Committee, Rajasthan – 1982-85

Elected to Lok Sabha (8th) for the fourth time – 1984

Union Minister of State, Finance – Nov-Dec.1984

Union Minister of State (Ind.Charge), Petroleum & Natural Gas – 1985-86

Secretary, A.I.C.C., Member of Working Committee – 1986-87, 1992-94

Chairman of Khadi and Village Industries Commission – 1994-96

Elected to Lok Sabha (11th) for the fifth time – 1996

Elected MLA from Jaipur Rural Constituency – 1998

Chairman of Rajasthan Golden Jubilee Celebration Committee – 1998

General Secretary of AICC for the third time – 2003

Literary, Artistic
and Scientific Accomplishments

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Editor of ‘Socialist India’ and ‘Socialist Bharat’; Columnist

Honoured with Honorary D’Litt for his Gandhian ideology and constructive work by Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth University, Varanasi in 1998

Social and Cultural Activities

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Upliftment of Adivasi people and removal of untouchability

Organised convention for non-residents of Rajasthan living in and outside the country to involve them sentimentally with their native land

Organised national and international sports events to celebrate the golden jubilee

Special Interests

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Reading and writing