Shri Praveen Rashtrapal, a politician from

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party, was a Member of the

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representing

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in the

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, the upper house of the Parliament. He died on 12 May 2016.

Career

He was an Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax, before he entered politics and represented the trade union movement of Income Tax employees and other Central Government employees, of India. Later he took up the role of AICC Secretary, in charge of

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matters. Praveen Rashtrapal was elected to the

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, and in 2006 he was nominated by the Congress to the

, from April 2006 to April 2012. Again he was re-elected in 2012. Rashtrapal was a member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on

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in the

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Death

He died on Thursday morning, 12 May 2016, due to a massive cardiac arrest, before he could be given any medical aid. His wife had already passed away and he is survived by three daughters and a son. He was succeeded by Parsottambhai Rupala, of

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References

External links

Profile on Rajya Sabha website
Indian National Congress politicians 1939 births People from Patan district Rajya Sabha members from Gujarat India MPs 1999–2004 Lok Sabha members from Gujarat 2016 deaths Indian National Congress politicians from Gujarat {{Gujarat-INC-politician-stub