` Satish Chandra Agarwal (born Satish Gupta; 27 September 1928 – 10 September 1997) was the leader of the

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and a member of the sixth and seventh

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representing the

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Parliamentary Constituency of

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, India from 1977 to 1984. He was previously a member of the

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from 1957 to 1972, and was later elected to the

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. He was arrested and jailed during

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's Emergency for 19 months from 1975 to 1976. An active social and political worker, and an eminent parliamentarian, Agarwal served as Union Minister of State for Finance for the

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from 1977 to 1979. He was a Member of Public Accounts Committee in 1980-81 and later served as its chairman from 1981 to 1983. Satish Agarwal was a member of the Indian Delegation to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference in

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, Malaysia, in 1971 and to the Colombo Plan Conference held in

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in 1977,

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in1978, and

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in 1979. He also participated in the Indian Delegation to

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in1984 and attended various other international conferences. Agarwal died from a heart attack on 10 September 1997 in Jaipur, Rajasthan at the age of 68.

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