Mukul Balkrishna Wasnik (born 27 September 1959) is an Indian Politician. He was the Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment in Government of India. He represented the

Ramtek Ramtek is a city and municipal council in Nagpur district of Maharashtra, India. History Ramtek hosts the historic temple of Rama. It is believed that Ramtek was the place where Rama, the Hindu god, rested while he was in exile. According to H ...

constituency of

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from 2009 to 2014. He is a member of the

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(INC) political party. He is also a

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of the

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. In 2022, Wasnik was elected member of the

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Personal life

Wasnik was born in a

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family to Veteran Congress leader and three time MP,

Balkrishna Ramchandra Wasnik Balkrishna Ramchandra Wasnik (12 August 1929 – 10 September 2015) was an Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress. Political career In 1957, at the age of 28 he was elected in the Bhandara lok sabha constituency. He was ...

Political career

Earlier Wasnik represented

Buldhana Buldhana is the district headquarters and a Municipal Council in the Buldhana District of Amravati division in the Indian State of Maharashtra. Climate Demographics As of the 2011 India census, Buldhana had a population of 67,431. Males con ...

of Maharashtra during 8th Lok Sabha 1984–1989,

10th Lok Sabha List of Members of the 10th Lok Sabha, (20 June 1991 – 10 May 1996) elected during 1991 Indian general election held during May–June 1991. The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the Parliament of India, four sitting memb ...

during 1991–1996, and

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during 1998–1999. In 1984, Wasnik became the youngest Member of Parliament at age of 25. He has tended to win and lose alternately. From Buldhana - winning in 1984 and losing the next in 1989, winning in 1991 and losing the next in 1996, winning in 1998 and losing in 1999. Then winning from Ramtek in 2009 and losing the next one from there in 2014. Wasnik was elected as the National President of

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during 1984–1986. Later Wasnik was elected as President of

Indian Youth Congress The Indian Youth Congress is the youth wing of the Indian National Congress party. The Indian Youth Congress was a department of the Indian National Congress from the period just after the Partition of India in 1947 until the late 1960s. While p ...

during 1988–1990. In June 2022, Wasnik was elected to the

from

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on Indian National Congress nomination.

Personal life

In March 2020, Mukul Wasnik married his friend Raveena Khurana at the age of 60. In 2008, Wasnik suffered a

brain haemorrhage Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, intraparenchymal bleed, and hemorrhagic stroke, or haemorrhagic stroke, is a sudden bleeding into the tissues of the brain, into its ventricles, or into both. It is one kind of bleed ...

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Living people Indian National Congress politicians Indian Youth Congress Presidents People from Maharashtra India MPs 2009–2014 Members of the Cabinet of India 1959 births Indian Buddhists 20th-century Buddhists 21st-century Buddhists Marathi politicians Union Ministers from Maharashtra Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University alumni India MPs 1998–1999 India MPs 1991–1996 India MPs 1984–1989 Lok Sabha members from Maharashtra People from Buldhana district People from Nagpur district Indian National Congress politicians from Maharashtra {{Maharashtra-INC-politician-stub