Sanjay Nirupam (born 6 February 1965) is a former member of the Indian Parliament from Indian National Congress party, and former President of the

Mumbai Regional Congress Committee The Mumbai Regional Congress Committee (MRCC) is the unit of the Indian National Congress for the city of Mumbai. Although Mumbai is part of Maharashtra state, the Mumbai RCC functions as an independent Pradesh Congress Committee unit and is r ...

. Nirupam served two terms as an MP in the

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first as a member from the

Shiv Sena Shiv Sena ( IAST: ''Śiva Sēnā'') () was a right-wing to far-right Marathi regionalist and Hindu ultranationalist political party in India founded in 1966 by cartoonist Bal Thackeray. Originally emerging from nativist movements in Bom ...

and then from the

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. He represented North Mumbai

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constituency from 2009 to 2014.

Career

He was a member of Parliamentary Committees such as the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and Finance Committee. He opened the 2013–14 budget debate for Congress Party in Parliament. He was Secretary of the

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and was also Secretary-in-Charge of the state of

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. He is one of the National spokespersons of the Congress Party to express the Party's view on different issues on TV Channels. Sanjay Nirupam lost to

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candidate Gopal Shetty in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. He was appointed as President of

in 2015. He was a contestant in ''

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'' in 2008.

Political Career

After working at Jan Satta for around five years, he joined the Shiv Sena's Dopahar Ka Saamna. After another poor showing at the polls, this time, the BMC elections in 2017, Nirupam tendered in his resignation as the head of the Congress Party for Mumbai.

References

External links

Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website"''Mumbai North MP Sanjay Nirupam has a decent fund utilisation of 82 per cent''"
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