Paban Singh Ghatowar ( as, পৱন সিং ঘাটোৱাৰ) (born 6 December 1950) in Sivasagar, Assam is an Indian politician.

Political career

He is a member of the

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and has been elected Member of Parliament five times: 10th Loksabha,

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and

15th Lok Sabha Members of the 15th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2009 general election in India. It was dissolved on 18 May 2014 by President Pranab Mukherjee. Indian National Congress-led United Progressive Alliance won 44 more seats than the previou ...

. He was the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge), Development of North Eastern Region and

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from July 2011 to May 2014. The five-time

Dibrugarh Dibrugarh (pron: ˌdɪbru:ˈgɑ:) is an industrial city in Upper Assam with sprawling tea gardens. It is located 435 kms East from the state capital of Dispur. It serves as the headquarters of Dibrugarh district in the state of Assam in ...

MP first entered the

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in 1991 after a long innings in the

Indian National Trade Union Congress Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) is a national trade union in India. It was founded on 3 May 1947 and is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation. According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, ...

, Assam, where he was General-Secretary, working for the welfare of tea garden labourers. After

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, he was made the chief whip, Congress Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha. He has been Union Deputy Minister, Labour in 1991–93, Union Deputy Minister, Health and Family Welfare in 1993–95 and Union Minister of State, Health and Family Welfare.

Controversy over Black Money

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in 2011 had disclosed a list of Indian Swiss bank account holders, in which Paban Singh Ghatowar's name appeared. The news was carried out in many newspapers in Assam including ''

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''. Ghatowar later denied having any such account. Incidentally,

Ram Jethmalani Ram Boolchand Jethmalani (14 September 1923 – 8 September 2019) was an Indian lawyer and politician. He served as India's Union minister of law and justice, as chairman of the Indian Bar Council, and as the president of the Supreme Court B ...

, had filed a petition in the Supreme Court submitting a list of at least 20 persons holding accounts in Swiss banks. According to his petition, a former Union minister from Assam (name not mentioned) has Rs 3,908 crore in a Swiss bank account. The matter is referred to the

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Personal

He is B.A. educated at

Gauhati University Gauhati University, also known as GU, is a collegiate public state university located in Guwahati, Assam, India. It was established on 26 January 1948 under the provisions of an Act enacted by the Assam Legislative Assembly. It is the oldest ...

Guwahati Guwahati (, ; formerly rendered Gauhati, ) is the biggest city of the Indian state of Assam and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India. Dispur, the capital of Assam, is in the circuit city region located within Guwahati and is the ...

, Assam Industrial Relations Training (U.K.), 1975. His wife Jibontara Ghatowar is Parliamentary Secy. and

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in Assam.Profile: Union cabinet minister Paban Singh Ghatowar
Retrieved 17 January 2012

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ghatowar, Paban Singh India MPs 2009–2014 1950 births Living people Indian National Congress politicians India MPs 1991–1996 India MPs 1996–1997 India MPs 1998–1999 India MPs 1999–2004 Lok Sabha members from Assam United Progressive Alliance candidates in the 2014 Indian general election