Parasram Maderna
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Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...
from Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
, India. He belongs to Lakshman nagar
Lakshman nagar
Lakshman nagar, also known as chadi in maps and official documents, it is considered as chadi.It is popular and usually the name is taken as lakshman nagar . It contain a vast area in the marwar region...
Village in Jodhpur district
Jodhpur district
Jodhpur District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The city of Jodhpur is the administrative headquarters of the district.As of 2011 it is the second most populous district of Rajasthan , after Jaipur.-History:...
of Rajasthan. His son Mahipal Maderna
Mahipal Maderna
Mahipal Maderna is an Indian politician from Rajasthan, belonging to the Indian National Congress. He served as the Water Resources Minister of Rajasthan in Ashok Gehlot's ministry, before being sacked in 2011.- Biography :...
is also a politician.
Education
He did his basic education at his village and then at JodhpurJodhpur
Jodhpur , is the second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is located west from the state capital, Jaipur and from the city of Ajmer. It was formerly the seat of a princely state of the same name, the capital of the kingdom known as Marwar...
, thereafter proceeding to do MA & LLB from University of Lucknow.
Freedom fighter
On his return to Rajasthan from education, he joined and worked with Baldev Ram MirdhaBaldev Ram Mirdha
Baldev Ram Mirdha was a great social reformer of the Marwar region in Rajasthan, India. He was born in a Rad gotra Jat Hindu family of village Kuchera in Nagaur district in Rajasthan in 1889. His father’s name was Mangla Ram ji. His family was given the work of Department of Post and Telegraph...
through Marwar Kisan Sabha & then Rajasthan Kisan Sabha, which led agrarian movement resulting in abolition of Jagir
Jagir
In historic India, a jagir was a small territory granted by the ruler to an army chieftain in fairly short terms usually of three years but not extending beyond his lifetime, in recognition of his military service...
s in erstwhile estates of Marwar
Marwar
Marwar is a region of southwestern Rajasthan state in western India. It lies partly in the Thar Desert. In Rajasthani dialect "wad" means a particular area. The word Marwar is derived from Sanskrit word 'Maruwat'. English translation of the word is 'The region of desert'., The Imperial Gazetteer...
and Mewar
Mewar
Mewar is a region of south-central Rajasthan state in western India. It includes the present-day districts of Pratapgarh, Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Rajsamand, Udaipur, Dungarpur, Banswara and some of the part of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. The region was for centuries a Rajput kingdom that later...
by passing the historic 'Tenancy Law' enabling cultivating farmers to be ‘owners’ of their own land.
With the merger of Kisan Sabha into Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...
he started his public career in 1953 by getting elected to very basic of democratic level as Sarpanch of Village Chadi and then moving on to getting elected nine times as Member of Legislative Assembly
Member of Legislative Assembly
A Member of Legislative Assembly, or MLA, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to the Legislature of a State in the Indian system of government...
Rajasthan.
In the course of his public and political life he has been a minister in Rajasthan Cabinet of General Administrative, Revenue, Panchayat Raj, Cooperative, Forest, Colonization, Rehabilitation, Flood, Famine, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Community Development, Local Bodies and Sheep & Wool, Energy, Irrigation Departments.
Membership of Legislature
- 1957 - 1962 - Member, Second Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
- 1962 - 1967 - Member, Third Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
- 1967 - 1972 - Member, Fourth Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
- 1972 - 1977 - Member, Fifth Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
- 1977 - 1980 - Member, Sixth Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
- 1980 - 1985 - Member, Seventh Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
- 1990 - 1992 - Member, Ninth Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
- 1993 - 1998 - Member, Tenth Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
- 1998 - 2003 - Member, Eleventh Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
Positions held
- 1953 - 1956 - Sarpanch, Village - Chadi, District -Jodhpur
- 1957 - 1962 - Member of PAC and Estimates Committee
- 1961 - 1962 -
- 1987 - 1990 - Chairman, Central Cooperative Bank Ltd, Jodhpur
- 1962 - 1966 - Dy. Minister, Deptt of General Administration
- 1966 - 1977 - Minister Deptt of GAD, Revenue, Panchayat Raj, Cooperative, Forest, Colonization, Rehabilitation, Flood, Famine, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Community Development, Local Bodies and Sheep & Wool, Government of Rajasthan
- 1974 - 1977 - Dy. Leader of INC Party in the Assembly
- 1977 - 1978,
- Feb'1979 - Aug'1979, and 1993 - 1998, Leader of Opposition, Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
- 1980 - 1981 - Chairman, Committee on Subordinate Legislation
- 1981 - 1982 - Minister, Deptt of Irrigation, PHED, Revenue, Land Reforms, Energy, and Flood & Famine, Government of Rajasthan
- 1981 - 1985 - Member, Syndicate, Jodhpur University
- 1982 - 1985 - Minister, Deptt of Irrigation, PHED, and Ground Water, Govt of Rajasthan
- 1990 - 1992 - Chairman, Public Accounts Committee
- 1994 - 1998 - Chairman, Public Undertakings Committee
- 6th Jan, 1999 to 15th Jan, 2004 Speaker, Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
Party Post Held
- 1957 - 1959 - President, District Pradesh Congress Committee
- 1959 - 1962 - General Secretary, Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee
- 1989 - 1994 - President, Rajasthan Pradesh Congress CommitteeRajasthan Pradesh Congress CommitteeThe Rajasthan Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee is situated at Indira Gandhi Bhawan, Jaipur. Its present President is Dr. Chandrabhan Singh....
See also
- MadrakMadrakMadrak is the name of ancient king of Āryāvarta, as per Vishnu Puran Madrak related to Anu Vansh. After a long time Madrak established as a lord of Sumerians and gotra of ancient Aryan royals. Madrak is lord of Aryan king Cyrus the great of Anushayan Aryavrata nowadays in Persian territory...
- For the clanClanA clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, clan members may be organized around a founding member or apical ancestor. The kinship-based bonds may be symbolical, whereby the clan shares a "stipulated" common ancestor that is a...
history of Parasram Maderna - Political families of RajasthanPolitical families of RajasthanThis is a partial listing of prominent political families of Rajasthan.However Royal families are not included, unless certain later descendants have played political roles in a republican structure .Mirdha Family...