Avinash Pandey is an Indian politician belonging to 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 E ...

party. He has been a Youth Congress leader and held the post of General Secretary in the Indian Youth Congress when Shri Maninder Singh Bitta was the President. He has been a member of the Legislative Council, Maharashtra (Upper House), and was appointed chairman, of Maharashtra State Small Scale Industries Development Corporation (MSSIDC). He unsuccessfully fought the

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 ...

elections from Maharashtra in 2008, against industrialist

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. He was defeated by

by one vote for

. He was nominated to contest in June 2010 Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra. He won the election unopposed. On 25 January 2022, he was appointed as the General Secretary of the Indian National Congress Incharge - Jharkhand by Congress President Sonia Gandhi. He is the Congress party's All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary InCharge - Jharkhand and a Congress Working Committee (CWC) member.

Positions held

1985-89: Member, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly 1986: Member, Maharashtra State Mathadi Board Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Industry 1986-87: Chairman, Public Undertakings Committee, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly 1987: Member, Accommodation Committee, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Chairman, Minimum Wages Committee for Bidi Workers, Member, India's 40th year of Independence Celebration Committee 1987-88: Member, Maithilisharan Gupt Centenary Committee 1988: Member, Nagpur University Senate, Member, Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary Celebration Committee 2006-10: Chairman, Maharashtra Small Scale Industries Development Corporation Ltd. Jul-2010: Elected to Rajya Sabha July 2010 onwards Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Coal Permanent Special Invitee, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Human Resource Development Aug. 2010 onwards Member, Committee on Urban Development Sept. 2010 onwards Member, Committee on Petitions Member, Hindi Salahkar Samiti for the Ministry of Panchayati Raj Member, Governing Council of the National Mission of

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Member, Development Council for Sugar Industries

Books published

In Hindi: Compiled and coordinated: (i) Shabd Swar Ke Sumeru (A Book on Rashtra Kavi Pradeep), 1995 and (ii) Ek Deep Kavi Pradeep (A compilation of Memoirs of Rashtra Kavi Pradeep), 2007

Other positions

Elected General Secretary, Nagpur University Students Council, 1977–78; President, (i) Maharashtra N.S.U.I. (I), 1983–1987, and (ii) Maharashtra Youth Congress, 1988–1989; Vice-president, Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (I), 2002–2005; General Secretary, (i) Indian Youth Congress (I), 1993–97 and (ii)

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(I), 1998–2002; Secretary,

All India Congress Committee The All India Congress Committee (AICC) is the presidium or the central decision-making assembly of the Indian National Congress. It is composed of members elected from state-level Pradesh Congress Committees and can have as many as a thousan ...

since 2009; Chief Convener, Historic National Convention of NSUI at Nagpur, 1984; Member, Training Department A.I.C.C., 2007

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pandey, Avinash Indian National Congress politicians from Maharashtra Living people Marathi politicians Rajya Sabha members from Maharashtra Maharashtra MLAs 1985–1990 Politicians from Nagpur 1958 births