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Shri George Fernandes

Posted March 26, 2009 - 4:33pm
Father's Name: 
Shri John Fernandes
Mother's Name : 
Smt. Alice Fernandes
Gender: 
Male
Date Of Birth: 
07/21/1971
Birth Place: 
Mangalore (Karnataka)
Marital Status: 
Married
E-Mail ID: 
george@sansad.nic.in
Profession: 

Trade Unionist
Agriculturist
Political & Social Worker
Journalist

Present Address: 

3, Krishna Menon Marg,
New Delhi - 110 011
Tels. (011) 23016035, 23017172, 23793397

Permanent Address: 

3, Leonard Lane, Richmond Town,
Bangalore-560 025 (Karnataka)
(080) 2214143

Profile: 
  • 1967

    • Elected to 4th Lok Sabha

  • 1967-70

    • Member, Committee on Petitions

  • 1969-73

    • General Secretary, Samyukta Socialist Party

  • 1973-77

    • Chairman, Socialist Party
    President, All India Railwaymen’s Federation

  • 1977

    • Re-elected to 6th Lok Sabha (2nd term)

  • March-July 1977

    • Union Cabinet Minister, Communications

  • 1977-79

    • Union Cabinet Minister, Industry

  • 1980

    • Re-elected to 7th Lok Sabha (3rd term)

  • 1989

    • Re-elected to 9th Lok Sabha (4th term)

  • 1989-90

    • Union Cabinet Minister, Railways

  • March-May 1990

    • Minister of Kashmir Affairs (Additional charge)

  • 1990-91

    • Member, Railway Convention Committee

  • 1991

    • Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (5th term)

  • 1993-96

    • Member, Committee on Finance
    Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Home Affairs

  • 1994 onwards

    • President, Samata Party

  • 1996

    • Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (6th term)

  • 1996-97

    • Member, Committee on External Affairs
    Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Human Resource Development

  • 1998

    • Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (7th term)

  • 1998-99

    • Union Cabinet Minister, Defence Member, General Purposes Committee

    1999

    Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (8th term)
    Leader, Janata Dal (U), Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha

  • 13 Oct. 1999 - 16 March 2001

    • Union Cabinet Minister, Defence Member, General Purposes Committee

  • 15 Oct. 2001- May 2004

    • Union Cabinet Minister, Defence

  • 2004

    • Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha( 9th term)
    Member, Committee on External Affairs

  • 5 Aug. 2007 onwards

    • Member, Standing Committee on Rural Development

  • Book Published

    • (i) ‘What Ails the Socialists’; (ii) ‘Railway Strike of 1974’; and (iii) ‘George Fernandes Speaks’

  • Literary Artistic & Scientific Accomplishments

    • Editor, “The Other side” (English monthly); and Chairman, Editorial Board of Pratipaksh (Hindi monthly)

  • Special Interests

    • Human rights and civil liberties movements all over the world and anti-nuclear and environmental campaigns

  • Countries Visited

    • Widely travelled

  • Other Information

    • As President of the All India Railwaymen’s Federation led the Railway strike involving 1.5 million workers in 1974, resulting in thousands being sent to jail. This was one of the events that led to the imposition of the Emergency in June 1975; during the Emergency, went underground and fought the existing rule; arrested in June 1976 on the charge of overawing and overthrowing the Government in what came to be known as Baroda Dynamite conspiracy case; fought the 1977 elections from jail; Founder Chairman, The New India Cooperative Bank; Co-Chairman, Indo-Libyan, Indo-GDR and Indo-Hungarian Joint Commissions, 1977-79; Chairman, (i) India Development Group, London, 1979; (ii) Schumacher Foundation, 1979; President, Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat; Member, (i) Amnesty International; (ii) Press Council of India; and
    (iii) People’s Union for Civil Liberties; associated with Samajwadi Abhiyan—a platform for Socialist Campaigns; Convenor, National Democratic Alliance (NDA)