Santosh Kumar Gangwar (born 1 November 1948) is an Indian politician and the former
Minister of State
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with independent charge in the
Ministry of Labour and Employment in the
Government of India
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. He is a
Member of Parliament
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(16th Lok Sabha), former
minister of state
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in
Government of India
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and a leader of
Bharatiya Janata Party
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(BJP). He has been
Member of Parliament
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for the city of
Bareilly
Bareilly () is a city in Bareilly district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is among the largest metropolises in Western Uttar Pradesh and is the centre of the Bareilly division as well as the historical region of Rohilkhand. The city ...
since 1989 till date (except 2009–2014). He was also the chief whip of the party in 14th
Lok Sabha
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. He faced defeat in the
15th Lok Sabha Elections, 2009 by a very narrow margin. Gangwar was the chairman of the PAC
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in 2009. He has been elected as
Member of Parliament
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in
16th Lok Sabha
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. He won by a margin of over 2.4 lakh votes over his rival candidate in
2014 general election. He resigned from the post of cabinet minister ahead of the cabinet reshuffle in July 2021.He is currently the Chairperson of the
Committee on Public Undertakings
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.
Early life
Born on 1 November 1948 in Bareilly, Santosh Kumar Gangwar attended
Agra University
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and the
Rohilkhand University
Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University (MJP Rohilkhand University) is a government university in Uttar Pradesh, India and campus spread over . It is an ISO9001:2015 Certified U.P. Government University. The university headquarters is in Ba ...
in
Uttar Pradesh
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, from where he completed his B. Sc. and LLB Degrees respectively.
He studied in
Bareilly College
Bareilly College, Bareilly (BCB) is an institution located in the metropolis of Bareilly in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The college is affiliated with the M. J. P. Rohilkhand University, and has been affiliated with the Agra University a ...
,
Bareilly
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only but during his B.Sc. it was affiliated to
Agra University
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, formerly Agra University, is an Autonomous University located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. The university is named after B. R. Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ambedkar, Indian scholar, social reformer, and the architect of t ...
and during LLB Rohilkhand University was founded and the college was naturally affiliated with the same.
Bareilly College
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,
Bareilly
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is a very old institution which was affiliated to
Calcutta University
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,
Allahabad University
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,
Agra University
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and now Rohilkhand University, Bareilly.
Before joining politics, Gangwar was actively involved in the establishment of the Urban Cooperative Bank in Bareilly and held the position of its chairman since its beginning in the year 1996. In Bareilly, he has been given credit for getting several projects executed for public use such as Chaupla Railway over-bridge, a library, and a mini bypass. Married to Saubhagya Gangwar, he is blessed with two children, Apoorv Gangwar and Shruti Gangwar.
He suffers from
vitiligo
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Signs and symptoms
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.
Career
Gangwar was jailed during the Emergency for guiding a people's movement against the then Government. He served as a member of the Uttar Pradesh State BJP Working Committee and held the position of General Secretary of the Uttar Pradesh BJP Unit in 1996.
Gangwar was elected for the first time to the 9th
Lok Sabha
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in 1989 from the
Bareilly
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constituency. He represented that constituency continuously until 2009 as a BJP
Member of Parliament
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, which involved six successive terms.
He has held ministerial posts in the Government of India.
He was Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas with the additional charge of Parliament Affairs in 13th
Lok Sabha
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. Prior to this, Gangwar was Minister of State of Science and Technology with the additional charge of Parliamentary Affairs during October and November 1999.
Santosh Gangwar is a Member of Parliament in the
16th Lok Sabha
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.
He served as Minister of State for
Textiles
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from 26 May 2014 to 5 July 2016, after which he was sworn in as Minister of State for
Finance
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.
Gangwar forayed into national politics in the year 1989, when he got elected from Bareilly in the 9th Lok Sabha on a BJP ticket. In 1996, Gangwar became the General Secretary of the BJP's Uttar Pradesh unit. Later, he kept on winning from the same constituency and remained an MP in the next six successive terms till 2009. In the 14th Lok Sabha, he was the chief whip of his party, but in the year 2009 elections for 15th Lok Sabha, he had to face defeat by a narrow margin.
In April 2018 Gangwar stirred controversy by saying that "one should not make a big deal" about rape in a country as large as India. The statements followed two incidents where BJP leaders were implicated in violent sexual assault of minors.
27 May 2014 onwards Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Ministry of Textiles; Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; and Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
In May 2019, Gangwar became the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for
Labour and Employment.
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External links
Official biography from Parliament of India recordsOfficial Website
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1948 births
Living people
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh
Politicians from Bareilly
India MPs 1989–1991
India MPs 1991–1996
India MPs 1996–1997
India MPs 1998–1999
India MPs 1999–2004
India MPs 2004–2009
India MPs 2014–2019
India MPs 2019–present
Lok Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh
Union ministers of state of India with independent charge
Narendra Modi ministry
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University alumni
People with vitiligo