Inder Kumar Gujral

Inder Kumar Gujral

                               



13th Prime Minister of India
Tenure - 21 April 1997 - March 19, 1998
Birth - December 4, 1919 (Jhelum, British India)
Death - 30 November 2012 (93 years)
Political party - Janata Dal
Swami Indra Kumar Gujral was sworn in as the 12th Prime Minister of India on Monday, April 21, 1997. Heavenly son Shri Avtar Narayan Gujral and late Mrs. Pushpa Gujral, Mr. Gujral M.A., B. Ph.D. And d. Lit (Hons. Causa). He was born on 4 December 1919 in Jhelum (in undivided Punjab). She and Mrs Shila Gujral were married on May 26, 1945.
Mr. Gujral belongs to the family of freedom fighters: both his parents participated in the freedom struggle in Punjab. At the age of eleven, he himself actively participated in the freedom struggle in 1931 and was arrested and severely beaten by the police for organizing the movement of small children in Jhelum city. In 1942, he went to jail during the Quit India Movement.
Prior to assuming the post of Prime Minister of India, Shri Gujral was External Affairs Minister from June 1, 1996 and took charge of the Ministry of Water Resources from June 28, 1996. She was Minister of Foreign Affairs during 1989--1990. From the 1976-1980, the USSR Ambassador of India for the Cabinet rank and organized the following Ministerial positions from 1967-1976:
Minister of Communication and Parliamentary Affairs
Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Minister of Communications
Minister for Work and Housing
Information and Broadcasting Minister
Planning minister
Organized Parliamentary Positions
Rajya Sabha leader, Rajya Sabha from June 1996; Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce and Textiles, 1993 to April 1996; Member of Parliamentary Standing Committee for Foreign Affairs till April 1996; Member Parliament from 1964 to 1976, from 1989 to 1991; Re-elected to the Rajya Sabha from Bihar in 1992; Members, Committee on Petitions, Public Accounts Committee, Committee on Rules, Rajya Sabha; Subordinate Legislative Committee, Rajya Sabha; General Purpose Committee, Rajya Sabha; Standing Committee on External Affairs.
Organized Other Important Offices
President of the Council of South Asian Cooperation; Members of the Capital Planning Monitoring Committee; Former President of the Institute of Defense Studies and Analysis (IDSA); Chairman of the official committee for the promotion of Urdu (Gujral Committee); Vice-President of New Delhi Municipal Council Council 1959-64; President of Lahore Students Union; Secretary General of Punjab Students Federation; Convenor and spokesman of United Front of Opposition parties in Calcutta, Srinagar and Delhi.
International delegation
Leaders of the Indian Delegation for UN General Assembly - 1996; Leader of the Indian delegation in the United Nations session of Human Rights, Geneva 1995; United Nations General Assembly leader of Indian delegation in 1990; Leader of Indian delegation in the United Nations Special Session of Economic Development of 1990; Members of UNO1995 and 1994, Indian delegation; Leader of the Indian delegation at the UNESCO Conference on Education and Environment, 1977; Alternative leader of Indian delegation in UNESCO session in 1970, 1972 and 1974; President, UNESCO Seminar on Man and New Communication System, Paris 1973; Representative - Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference- Bucharest 1995; Representative - Commonwealth Parliamentary Union Conference, Canada 1994; Representative - Inter-Parliamentary Union Meeting Canberra (Australia) 1967; Alternative leader of Indian delegation in the United Nations session on the environment, Stockholm 1974; Gabon, Cameroon, Congo, Chad and the special envoy of the Republic of Central Africa, 1975; Special envoy of India for the inauguration of the Republic of Malawi 1966; Special Envoy for Bulgaria 1961; Attendance for the President of India during the state visit of the Union Minister Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Egypt and Sudan; President - South Asian Co-India Council Council; Co-President Asian Rotary Conference 1961.
Social organizations they associated with
President, Nari Niketan Trust and A.N. Gujral Memorial School, Jalandhar (Punjab); President, Indo-Pak Friendship Society; Founder president of Delhi Art Theater; Vice-President of Lok Kalyan Samiti; President of Rotary Club of Delhi, 1960; Co-President of the Asian Rotary Conference in 1961
Special Interest
Shri Gujral is the author and commentator of National and International Affairs as well as theater also.
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