Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad, MP General Secretary 5, SOUTH AVENUE LANE, NEW DELHI. Tele.(O):3019080,3019373 Tele.(R):3792052,3793692 EXTN:. 435

Father's Name	Shri Rahamatullah
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Mother's Name	Shrimati Basa Begum
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Date of Birth	7 March 1949
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Place of Birth	Village Soti, Bhadarwah, Distt. Doda (Jammu & Kashmir)
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Marital Status	Married on 27 March 1980
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Spouse's Name	Shrimati Shameem Dev Azad
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Children	One son and one daughter
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Educational Qualifications	M.Sc. (Zoology) Educated at Government Degree College Bhadarwah, G.G.M. Science College, Jammu, S.P. College, Srinagar and Kashmir University, Srinagar
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Profession	Political and Social Worker
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Permanent Address	House No. 58, New Rehari (Jammu & Kashmir)
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Present Address	5, South Avenue Lane, New Delhi-110011 Tel : 3792052 E-mail : azadg@sansad.nic.in
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Positions Held
1973-75	Secretary, Block Congress Committee, Bhalesa
1975-77	President, Pradesh Youth Congress, Jammu and Kashmir
1975-85	Member, Congress Executive Committee, J&K Pradesh Congress
1975-88	President, District Congress Committee, Doda
1977-80	General Secretary, All India Youth Congress
1978-81	President, All India Muslim Youth Conference (Associated with Indian Youth Congress)
1980 onwards	Member, Congress Executive Committee Maharashtra
1980-82	President, All India Youth Congress Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
1980-84	Member, Seventh Lok Sabha (from Washim, Maharashtra)
1981-82	Member, Consultative Committe for the Ministry of Defence
1982	Chairman, Youth Services Committee, IX Asian Games Member, Special Organising Committee, IX Asian Games Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
1982-83	Union Deputy Minister in Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs
1983-84	Union Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
1985-89	Member, Eighth Lok Sabha (from Washim Maharashtra)
31 Dec. 1984-11 May 1986	Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs
May 1986 - Oct. 1986	Union Minister of State in Ministry of Home Affairs
Oct. 1986 - Sept. 1987	Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Food and Civil Supplies
1987-92 and Nov. 1996 onwards	General Secretary, All India Congress Committee
1987 onwards	Member, Congress Working Committee (re-elected in Aug. 1997)
1988-89	Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Defence
April 1990	Elected to Rajya Sabha
June 1991-Jan 1993	Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
Jan. 1993 - May 1996	Union Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism
Dec. 1995 - May 1996	Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Civil Aviation and Tourism
Nov. 1996	Re-elected to Rajya Sabha
1996-97	Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Home Affairs
1998	Member, Committee on Energy Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Railways
June 1998 onwards	Member, Central Disciplinary Action Committee of A.I.C.C.
July 1998 onwards	Member, Rajghat Samadhi Committee
Jan. 1999 onwards	General Secretary, All India Congress Committee
Dec. 1999 onwards	Member, Committee on Transport and Tourism
Jan. 2000 onwards	Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Home Affairs Member, Informal Consultative Committee for the Northern Railway Zone
May 2000 onwards	Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Functioning of Wakf Boards
Social and Cultural Activities, Literary, Artistic and Scientific Accomplishments and other Special Interest	Organising camps, symposia and seminars on the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
Sports, Club, Favourite Pastimes and Recreation	Gardening, meeting people and cultural activities, secularism and national integration
Countries Visited	Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, China, Hong Kong, Iraq, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Sweden, Switizerland, U.K., Russia, Yugoslavia, Egypt, Bahamas, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, U.S.A., Australia, Luxembourg, Finland, the Netherlands, Spain, Uzbekistan, Kzakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Mauritius, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Romania, Indonesia, Vietnam, Poland, Argentina, Brazil, North Korea, South Korea, Iran, Turkmenistan, U.A.E., Jordan, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and Turkey
Other Information	An outstanding N.C.C. Cadet in Government Degree College, Bhadarwah, G.G.M. Science College and S.P. College, Srinagar; courted arrest more than a dozen times and jailed during the Janata Government (1977-79) in the different parts of the country; Cultural Secretary and elected representative of Post Graduate Department of Zoology, Kashmir University 1970-72; Chairman, First International Youth Conference, Delhi, 1982; Director, Board of Directors in the Associated Journals Limited, publishers of National Herald, 1988-90; Member, (i) Bazam-i-Adab, S.P. College Srinagar, 1967-68, (ii) Anti-Copying Front, S.P. College, Srinagar, 1967-68, (iii) Peace Committee, G.G.M. Science College, Jammu, 1967-69, (iv) National Integration Committee, G.G.M. Science College, Jammu, 1967-69, (iv) National Integration Committee G.G.M. Science College, Jammu, 1967-69, (v) Jammu and Kashmir Gandhi Centenary Committee, 1969 (vi) Publication of Journals and Beautification of Campus Committee, Kashmir University, 1970-72 (vii) Jammu and Kashmir Gandhi Smarak Nidhi (as Member and Organiser of Jammu and Kashmir Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, 1970-75, organized hundreds of camps, symposia and seminars on teachings of Mahatma Gandhi), (viii) Delegation to the 11th World Youth and Students' Festival, Hawana (Cuba), 1978, (ix) Central Haj Committee, 1980-82, (x) Governing Council, Rajaji International Institute of Public Affairs and Administration, 1980-82, (xi) Jammu and Kashmir Bhoodan Committee, (xii) Parliamentary Delegation to Mexico and Greece and (xiii) Indian Parliamentary Group; Leader, (i) Indian Delegation of Sarvodaya to Sri Lanka to visit one thousand Gandhian model villages, 1973, (ii) Youth Congress Delegation to Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Russia, 1980-82, (iii) Young M.P.s' Delegation to Iraq. 1981, (iv) Indian Goodwill Haj Delegation to Saudi Arabia, 1987, (v) Indian Parliamentary Delegation to Sweden, 1991 as Parliamentary Affairs Minister, (vi) Indian Parliamentary Delegation in the Inter Parliamentary Union meeting held in New Delhi, 1992 as Parliamentary Affairs Minister and (vii) a number of Congress Party and Ministry of Civil Aviation Delegations to more than three dozen countries, 1991-96; Convener, (i) Central Campaign Committee of A.I.C.C. for 1998 Parliamentary Elections and (ii) Committee for Golden Jubilee Celebrations of India's Independence of A.I.C.C.