Smt. Suryakanta Patil
Father's Name:
Late Shri Jayawantrao Patil
Mother's Name :
nlil
Gender:
Female
Birth Place:
Umerkhed, Distt. Yeotmal (Maharashtra)
Marital Status:
Married
E-Mail ID:
suryakanta.patil@sansad.nic.in Profession:
agriculturist Political & Social Worker Journalist Trade Unionist
Present Address:
Permanent Address:
Profile:
- 1971 onwards
- President, District Congress Committee (D.C.C.) (Women`s Wing), Nanded
- 1972-74
- General-Secretary, Distt. Youth Congress, Nanded
- 1974-82
- Member, Municipal Council, Nanded
- Chairperson, Education Committee, Municipal Council, Nanded
- 1977-78
- Founder-Member, D.C.C. (Indira), Nanded
- 1980-85
- Member, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
- 1981-82
- Chairperson, Committee on Subordinate Legislation, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
- 1981-85
- General-Secretary, Pradesh Youth Congress (I), Maharashtra
- 1986-91
- Member, Rajya Sabha
- Member, Conslitative Committee, Ministry of Environment and Forests
- 1988-89
- Member, Conslitative Committee, Ministry of Petroleum and Chemicals
- 1988-90
- Member, Committee on Rlies, Rajya Sabha
- 1991
- Elected to 10th Lok Sabha
- 1991-96
- Executive Member, Congress Parliamentary Party (Indira)
- 1997-98
- Vice-President, Pradesh Congress Committee (I), Maharashtra
- 1998
- Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
- 1998-99
- Member, Committee on Defence and its Sub-Committees
- Member, Joint Committee on the Empowerment of Women and its Sub-Committee on Appraisal of Laws relating to Women-Criminal Laws
- Member, Conslitative Committee, Ministry of Tourism
- 2000-2002
- Vice-President, Nationalist Congress Party, Maharashtra
- 2002 onwards
- Member, Central Working Committee, NCP
- 2004
- Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
- May 2004 onwards
- Union Minister of State, Rural Development & Parliamentary Affairs
