ashwani kumar biography
Ashwani Kumar (born 26 October 1952) is an Indian politician and attorney who formerly served as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha representing the state of Punjab. He formerly served as Union Minister of Law and Justice and Union Minister of State in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion and Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
In 1991, at the age of 37, he was appointed one of the youngest Additional Solicitor General of India.
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He has served as Indian National Congress party’s National Spokesperson and Chairman of its Vichar Vibhag. As a legal counsel, he has argued important cases before the Supreme Court of India,
including the Bhopal Gas Tragedy case, and has also represented major corporations in international arbitrations. (ashwani kumar biography)
He has been a member of the Rajya Sabha since 2002. He resigned from the Indian National Congress on February 15, 2022
ashwani kumar Early life and education
Born in Delhi on 26 October 1952, Ashwani Kumar graduated from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. Thereafter, he pursued law and earned Bachelor of Laws from Faculty of Law,
University of Delhi, and a Master of Philosophy from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.[ashwani kumar biography]
In 2004, he was awarded honorary doctorate in law from Panjab University.[ashwani kumar biography]
Career
See also: Second ministry of Manmohan Singh He has been the Additional Solicitor General of India and is an Associate Tenant as Counsel with the Doughty Street Chambers in London.
He is engaged in the advocacy of human rights issues in and out of court.[ashwani kumar biography]
ashwani kumar Ministerial responsibilities
Ashwani Kumar was the Minister of Law and Justice from 28 October 2012 to 11 May 2013. From 19 January 2011 to 11 May 2013,
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he was the Minister of State in the Ministry of Planning; Ministry of Science and Technology; and Ministry of Earth Sciences. He was the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs from January to July 2011.(ashwani kumar biography)
Special Envoy to Japan
In 2013, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appointed him as his Special Envoy “to maintain the momentum of high-level exchanges with Japan”
and prepare for the upcoming visit of Japan’s Emperor and the Empress to India.[ashwani kumar biography]
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In 2011, Kumar was the keynote speaker at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Science and Technology Forum (STS) at Kyoto, Japan. He was a guest speaker at The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2008. (ashwani kumar biography)
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He was a visiting scholar at CSIS, Washington in 2004. In addition to writing a number of scholarly articles on law, economic reforms, elections, democracy and international affairs,
Kumar has also authored a book titled Law, Ideas and Ideology in Politics; Perspectives of an Activist in 2003.[ashwani kumar biography]
In 2012, Kumar was the keynote speaker at the Harvard Club, New York City on “The Legal Architecture for consolidating the economic reform process in India” and was also a guest lecturer at MIT.
In 2013, he was a speaker at the Aix Le Cercle des economists in Aix-en-Provence, France, and was a distinguished fellow at Trinity College, Dublin in 2016.[ashwani kumar biography]
Kumar’s second book, Hope in a Challenged Democracy – an Indian Narrative, was published in 2017.
Nominations
In 2013, Kumar was nominated to represent India at the United Nations General Assembly Session in New York City and made an address there. (ashwani kumar biography)
He also represented India at the Summer Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions (2011) in Dalian, People’s Republic of China
ashwani kumar Personal life/ ashwani kumar wife
He married Madhu on 30 November 1975, with whom he had a son and daughter. Madhu predeceased him.
Former Union Minister Ashwani Kumar today quit the Congress, his party of more than four decades, calling it a decision that was “consistent with my dignity”.(ashwani kumar biography)
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Ashwani Kumar was Law Minister in the Manmohan Singh-led Congress government between 2009 and 2014.
In his resignation letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, shared by news agencies, Dr Kumar wrote, “Having given my thoughtful consideration to the matter,
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I have concluded that in the present circumstances and consistent with my dignity, I can best subserve larger national cause outside the party fold.”(ashwani kumar biography)
He also said he “hoped to proactively pursue public causes inspired by the idea of transformative leadership,
based on the dignitarian promise of a liberal democracy envisioned by our freedom fighters.”
Dr Kumar told the Indian Express that “internal processes” of the Congress diminished individual leaders.
“The continuous decline of the Congress in terms of vote percentage, in terms of popular support clearly shows that the party is out of sync with the way the nation thinks,” he told the Express.(ashwani kumar biography)
ashwani kumar left congress
He also said on Rahul Gandhi that the “national mood is not in favour of the alternative that the Congress party presents to the people in terms of its future leadership.”
This is the latest exit from the Congress, weeks after the party lost RPN Singh, another former Union Minister and a big leader in Uttar Pradesh.
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Last month, RPN Singh, a leader who was close to the Gandhis and was part of Rahul Gandhi’s core team, quit the Congress and joined the BJP within hours.(ashwani kumar biography)
The high profile exits started with Jyotiraditya Scindia, who in 2020 switched to the BJP,
bringing down the Madhya Pradesh Congress government. He is now Aviation Minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.
ashwani kumar resigns
Last year, another key UP leader, Jitin Prasada, left the party. He soon joined Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s government.
But Dr Kumar is the first senior Union Minister to quit the party since the Congress lost power in 2014. He was counted among the party’s veterans and a big Gandhi family loyalist.(ashwani kumar biography)
Former Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar resigns from Congress pic.twitter.com/BwUuqhqSH6
— ANI (@ANI) February 15, 2022
The inner churn in the Congress went public when a group of 23 leaders – dubbed the G-23 – wrote a letter to Sonia Gandhi calling for major reforms in the party,
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including a visible and “full-time leadership” and collective decision-making.
Ironically, Dr Kumar had strongly defended the Gandhis at the time and had criticised the letter-writers.
Most leaders in the group remain with the Congress but they have often voiced their criticism openly.(ashwani kumar biography)
Recently, the announcement of a Padma award for Ghulam Nabi Azad – one of the G-23 – ignited another round of Congress versus Congress with Gandhi family loyalists accusing the former Union Minister of leaning towards the BJP.(ashwani kumar biography)
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