Yogendra Makwana (born 1933) is an Indian politician and a former union minister of India. He was a member of

Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...

from 1973 to 1988 elected from

Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...

. He was also a member of the Planning Commission of India. In 2008 he founded the National Bahujan Congress, after he broke away from the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

.''Hindustan Times''.
Cong rebel Makwana launches own party
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1933 births Rajya Sabha members from Gujarat Living people Indian National Congress politicians from Gujarat {{Gujarat-INC-politician-stub