HARIN PATHAK THE NEW MINISTER OF
STATE FOR HOME
Shri Harindra Kumar
Ramachandra Pathak (Harin Pathak) has taken over as the new Minister
of State for Home in place of Shri Ch. Vidyasagar Rao who will
be the Minister of State for Commerce. Shri Pathak was the Minister
of State for Defence Production and Supplies.
Born on the 20th
July, 1947 at village Ratanpur in Panch Mahal District of Gujarat
Shri Pathak has a long and distinguished public life since college
days and held prominent positions as a student union leader and
subsequently in politics. He started his career as a teacher.
After joining politics he was elected as a Member of the Lok Sabha
from Ahmedabad city in 1989 and won this seat consecutively in
1991, 1996, 1998 and in 1999. Shri Pathak also participated in
the World Conference of Inter-Parliament Union held at Ottawa,
Canada and also visited Germany, USA and France. He represented
India at the 44th Commonwealth Conference in Wellington,
New Zeeland in 1998.
Shri Pathak was
a successful Corporator of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation
for about 17 years from 1976. He made notable contribution for
the development of the Ahmedabad city and was also jailed during
emergency of 1975-76.
Shri Harin Pathak
was a Member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) constituted
to go into the Stock Scan in 1992 and was again nominated as a
Member of the JPC constituted to prove the UTI related controversy.
In the last 12 years as a Member of the Lok Sabha he served in
the Estimates Committee, Textile Committee, Chemical and Fertilisers
Committees, Finance Committee and Civil Aviation Committee.
