Suresh Pachouri (born 1 July 1952) is an Indian politician and current member of

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

from

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (; ; ) is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and the largest city is Indore, Indore. Other major cities includes Gwalior, Jabalpur, and Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, Sagar. Madhya Pradesh is the List of states and union te ...

. He had served as union minister of state in the

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(1995-1996) and in the

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions The Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions is a ministry of the Government of India in personnel matters specially issues concerning recruitment, training, career development, staff welfare as well as the post-retirement dispens ...

and Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (2004-2008) in the Government of India.

Personal life

Pachouri was born on 1 July 1952 to Kalika Prasad. He graduated with a

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degree in

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

from

Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology The Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal (MANIT or NIT Bhopal or NIT-B) is a public technical university located in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is part of a group of publicly funded institutions in India known as National ...

, Bhopal in 1983. He also received an

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degree from Sofia Art and Commerce College, Bhopal in 2002. He is married to Suparna S. Pachouri, with whom he has two sons.

Political career

Pachouri is one of the senior most leaders of Indian National Congress and he entered politics as an

Indian Youth Congress The Indian Youth Congress is the youth wing of the Indian National Congress party. The Indian Youth Congress was a department of the Indian National Congress from the period just after the Partition of India in 1947 until the late 1960s. Whil ...

worker in 1972. He was the General Secretary of the Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress(I) from 1981 to 1983. He then became President of the Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress from 1984 to 1985. He was General Secretary of the

from 1985 to 1988. He was first elected to the

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in 1984 and was re-elected in 1990, 1996 & 2002. He was the Minister of State in the

from 1995 to 1996. He was the Chairman of the Congress

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. He was a Member of the Consultative Committee of the

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and Defence and was also nominated to the Panel of

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in 2000. He served as a

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in the

and Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs from 24 May 2004 – 6 April 2008. He was the President of the

Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) is the Pradesh Congress Committee (state wing) of the Indian National Congress (INC) serving in the state of Madhya Pradesh. It is responsible for organizing and coordinating the party's activities and cam ...

from 14 February 2008 – 5 April 2011. He has also served as the Convener of the Research and Coordination Department of the

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 States and union territories of India, state-level Pradesh Congress Commit ...

. He joined

on 9 March 2024.

Positions held

*1981-83: General secretary of Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress *1984-85: President of Madhya Pradesh youth congress *1985-88: General secretary of Indian youth congress *1984-90: Member of parliament, Rajyasabha *1990: Member of consultative committee of Ministry of Home affairs and Defence *1990-96: Member of Parliament, Rajyasabha *1995-96: Union minister of state for Defence Production *1996-2002: Member of parliament, Rajyasabha *2000: Vice chairman of Rajyasabha (Panel) *2002-2008: Member of Parliament, Rajyasabha *2004: Chief whip, Rajyasabha *2004-2008: Union minister of state in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances, Pension and Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs *2008-2011: President of MP congress

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pachouri, Suresh 1952 births Living people Rajya Sabha members from Madhya Pradesh Indian National Congress politicians from Madhya Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Madhya Pradesh Presidents of Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee