Sat Mahajan

Sat Mahajan is the Rural Development Minister of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. He was born 27 July 1927 in Nurpur, Kangra District. He is a political and a social worker.

He was the Secretary of the Current Affairs Society during his college years. He was the President of the Nurpur Municipal Committee for five consecutive terms. He is the founder member of Indian Youth Congress. He has represented the Indian National Congress as one of the member delegation in the International Socialist Conference held in Lisbon. He was the President of the Kangra District Congress Committee and Pradesh Congress Committee for three terms.

He visited Russia on an Indo-Soviet Friendship Mission. He also represented the country in the United Nations as a member of the parliamentary delegation. He was honoured with the Vaikunth Bhai Mehta Award by the Co-Operative Sector on 31 March 2003 in Delhi.

He was elected to the State Legislative Assembly first in 1977 and then again in 1982, 1985, 1993 and in 2003. He also remained an Member Parliamnet for the Kangra Parliamentary Constituency from 1996 to 1998. He was the Revenue Minister (at Cabinet Rank) from May 1980 to January 1985. He was also the Transport Minister (of Cabinet Rank) from 1985 to 1990. He was the Chairman of Committee on Estimates from 1994 to 1995 and Rural Development Minister (at Cabinet Rank) from 6 March 2003 onwards. [ [http://hpvidhansabha.nic.in/members.asp Official Profile of Sat Mahajan @ hpvidhansabha.nic.in] ]

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