Dinesh Trivedi
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| Minister of Railways | |
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In office 13 July 2011 – 18 March 2012 |
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| President | Pratibha Patil |
| Prime Minister | Manmohan Singh |
| Preceded by | Mamata Banerjee |
| Succeeded by | Mukul Roy |
| Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare | |
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In office 22 May 2010 – 13 July 2011 |
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| Succeeded by | Sudip Bandyopadhyay |
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Member of parliament, Lok Sabha for Barrackpore |
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Assumed office 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Tarit Baran Topdar |
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Member of parliament, Rajya Sabha for West Bengal |
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In office 1990–1996 |
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In office 2002 – 2008 (Two terms) |
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| Personal details | |
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4 June 1950 New Delhi, Delhi, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | Trinamool Congress |
| Spouse(s) | Minal Trivedi |
| Residence |
New Delhi Kolkata |
| Alma mater | St. Xavier's College, Calcutta University of Texas, Austin |
| Profession |
Pilot Politician |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Website | http://www.dineshtrivedi.com/ |
Dinesh Trivedi (born 4 June 1950) is an Indian politician from the All India Trinamool Congress party, was Member of parliament, Lok Sabha in the Lower House representing Barrackpore, West Bengal. He is the former Union Minister for Railways and the former Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare. He is also the Chairman of the Indo-European Union Parliamentary Forum (IEUPF), and other Parliamentary Forums.
Trivedi is the youngest child of the Gujarati couple, Hiralal and Urmila, who migrated to India from Karachi during India's partition, where all his other siblings were born. His parents lived in a number of places before coming to New Delhi, where he was born. His father then started working for the Hindustan Construction Company in Kolkata. Trivedi attended boarding schools in Himachal Pradesh, before graduating in commerce from St. Xavier's College, Calcutta. He then took a loan of Rs.20,000 and completed his MBA from The University of Texas at Austin. He also trained to be a pilot, a result of his childhood dream of flying for the Indian Air Force. He is a trained sitar player and enjoys classical music. He also applied to train as an actor at the Film Institute, Pune, but didn't follow it up as he then believed it not to be a serious job, as reported by Rediff.com. He was also drawn towards a picture of Swami Vivekananda in an advertisement by the Ramkrishna Mission, and decided to be a monk, but did not do so due to strong advice by his family and a Swami in Chicago. He dons rings with sapphire, emerald and coral on his right hand to ward off the ill-effects of the mangal griha (planet Mars).
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