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Purushottam Kaushik

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Purushottam Kaushik
Minister of Information and Broadcasting
In office
28 July 1979 – 14 January 1980
Preceded byL. K. Advani
Succeeded byVasant Sathe
Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation
In office
26 March 1977 – 15 July 1979
Preceded byKotha Raghuramaiah
Succeeded byMohammad Shafi Qureshi
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
1989-1991
Preceded byChandulal Chandrakar
Succeeded byChandulal Chandrakar
ConstituencyDurg, Madhya Pradesh
In office
1977-1980
Preceded byVidya Charan Shukla
Succeeded byKeyur Bhushan
ConstituencyRaipur, Madhya Pradesh
Personal details
Born(1930-09-24)24 September 1930
Mahasamund, Central Provinces, British India
Died5 October 2017(2017-10-05) (aged 87)
Mahasamund, Chhattisgarh, India
Political partyJanata Dal
Other political
affiliations		Samyukta Socialist Party, Janata Party
SpouseAmrit Kaushik[1]
Children3
Occupation
  • Agriculturist
  • Lawyer
  • Politician
Source: [1]

Purushottam Lal Kaushik (24 September 1930 – 5 October 2017)[2] was an Indian Politician.

Details[edit]

He was elected to the Lok Sabha the lower house of the Indian Parliament from Raipur in 1977 and Durg in 1989 from Madhya Pradesh as a member of the Janata Dal.[3] He was the Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation in the Morarji Desai ministry and later Minister of Information and Broadcasting in the Charan Singh ministry[4][5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Ex Union Tourism Minister's wife passes away". United News of India. 6 August 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Former Union Minister Purushottam Lal Kaushik Passes Away". news18.com. Press Trust of India. 6 October 2017. Archived from the original on 6 October 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  3. ^ "9th Lok Sabha Members Bioprofile". Lok Sabha. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  4. ^ Linda K. Richter (1989). The Politics of Tourism in Asia. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 116–. ISBN 978-0-8248-1140-2.
  5. ^ Ananth V. Krishna (1 September 2011). India Since Independence: Making Sense Of Indian Politics. Pearson Education India. pp. 232–. ISBN 978-81-317-3465-0.

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