Sat Mahajan, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sat Mahajan

Indian politician

Date of Birth: 27-Jul-1927

Date of Death: 01-Sep-2012

Profession: politician

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Sat Mahajan

  • Sat Mahajan (27 July 1927 – 1 September 2012) was the Rural Development Minister of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
  • He was a political and a social worker. He was born in Nurpur, Kangra District. Mahajan was the Secretary of the Current Affairs Society during his college years.
  • He was the President of the Nurpur Municipal Committee for five consecutive terms.
  • He was the founder member of Indian Youth Congress.
  • He has represented the Indian National Congress as one of the member delegation in the International Socialist Conference held in Lisbon.
  • He was the President of the Kangra District Congress Committee and Pradesh Congress Committee for three terms. He visited Russia on an Indo-Soviet Friendship Mission.
  • He also represented the country in the United Nations as a member of the parliamentary delegation.
  • He was honoured with the Vaikunth Bhai Mehta Award by the Co-Operative Sector on 31 March 2003 in Delhi. Mahajan was elected to the State Legislative Assembly first in 1977 and then again in 1982, 1985, 1993 and in 2003.
  • He also remained a Member of Parliament for the Kangra Parliamentary Constituency from 1996 to 1998.
  • He was the Revenue Minister (at Cabinet rank) from May 1980 to January 1985.
  • He was also the Transport Minister (of Cabinet rank) from 1985 to 1990.
  • He was the Chairman of Committee on Estimates from 1994 to 1995 and Rural Development Minister (at Cabinet rank) from 6 March 2003 onwards.He died from cardiac arrest at Escort Hospital.
  • He had been hospitalized to undergo an angioplasty earlier that week, but had been discharged after surgery.

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