Satish Chandra Agarwal was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party

Bharatiya Janata Party

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 and a member of Sixth and Seventh Lok Sabha

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 representing Jaipur

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 Parliamentary Constituency of Rajasthan

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, India during 1977-84. Later he was elected to Rajya Sabha

Rajya Sabha

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. Earlier, he was a Member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly

Rajasthan Legislative Assembly

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 during 1957-72.

An active social and political worker, and an eminent parliamentarian, Agarwal served as Union Minister of State for Finance in Government of India

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 during 1977-79. He was a Member of Public Accounts Committee in 1980-81 and later served as its Chairman during 1981-83.

Satish Agarwal was a member of Indian Delegation to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference at Kuala Lumpur

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, Malaysia in 1971 and Colombo Plan Conference held in Kathmandu 1977, Washington

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, 1978 and London

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, 1979. He was a member of the Indian Delegation to Geneva

Geneva

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in 1984 and also participated in various other international conferences.

Agarwal died on 10 September, 1997 at Jaipur, Rajasthan at the age of 69 years