Pramod Mahajan
| Pramod Mahajan | |
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| Minister of Communications and Information Technology | |
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In office 2 September 2001 – 28 January 2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| Preceded by | Ram Vilas Paswan |
| Succeeded by | Arun Shourie |
| Minister of Parliamentary Affairs | |
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In office 13 October 1999 – 29 January 2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| Preceded by | Rangarajan Kumaramangalam |
| Succeeded by | Sushma Swaraj |
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In office 16 May 1996 – 1 June 1996 |
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| Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| Preceded by | Ghulam Nabi Azad |
| Succeeded by | Ram Vilas Paswan |
| Minister of Defence | |
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In office 16 May 1996 – 1 June 1996 |
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| Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| Preceded by | P. V. Narasimha Rao |
| Succeeded by | Mulayam Singh Yadav |
| Member of the India Parliament for Mumbai North East |
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In office 1996–1998 |
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| Preceded by | Gurudas Kamat |
| Succeeded by | Gurudas Kamat |
| Personal details | |
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Pramod Vyankatesh Mahajan 30 October 1949 Mahabubnagar, Hyderabad, India (now in Telangana) |
| Died | 3 May 2006 (aged 56) Mumbai |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Spouse(s) | Rekha |
| Children | Two (Rahul and Poonam) |
| Residence | Mumbai, Maharashtra |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| As of 5 May 2006 Source: [1] |
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Pramod Vyankatesh Mahajan (30 October 1949 – 3 May 2006) was an Indian politician from Maharashtra. A second-generation leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he belonged to a group of relatively young "technocratic" leaders who lack a grassroots political base, although he was fairly popular in his home state. At the time of his death he was in a power struggle for the leadership of the BJP given the imminent retirement of its aging top brass.
He was a member of the Rajya Sabha and a General Secretary of his party. He contested only two Loksabha elections from Mumbai – North East constituency. He won in 1996 but lost in 1998. As Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's telecommunications minister between 2001 and 2003, he played a major role in India's cellular revolution, but was also accused of improperly favouring Reliance Infocomm. He was widely seen as a successful Parliamentary Affairs minister due to his good relations with political parties across the ideological spectrum.
On 22 April 2006, he was shot at and fatally injured by his brother Pravin Mahajan over a family dispute. He succumbed to his wounds 13 days later. Pravin was sentenced to lifetime imprisonment by the court in 2007.
Mahajan was born to Venkatesh Devidas Mahajan and Prabhavati Venkatesh Mahajan in Mahbubnagar, Andhra Pradesh, India in a Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmin family. The Mahajan family had migrated from their home in Mahajan gully in Osmanabad to Ambajogai and was staying in a rented house in Mangalwar Peth. Mahajan spent his childhood in Ambejogai. He was the second child of his parents, with two brothers Prakash and Pravin, and two sisters Pratibha and Pradnya. His father died when he was 21. He attended Yogeshwari Vidyalaya and Mahavidyalaya in Beed district of Maharashtra and studied at the Ranade Institute for Journalism, Pune. He obtained bachelor's degrees in Physics and Journalism and a post graduate degree in Political Science. He with Gopinath Munde studied in Swami Ramanand Teerth College, Ambajogai, Maharashtra. Also passed Maharashtra Certified Typewriting from former Mahajan Typewriting Institute, Ambajogai.
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