Name Suresh Prabhu | Spouse Uma Prabhu (m. 1984) Role Indian Politician | |
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Political party Bharatiya Janata Party (2014–present) Education Wilfrid Laurier University, Free University of Berlin Similar People Manohar Parrikar, Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, D V Sadananda Gowda, Arun Jaitley Profiles | ||
Preceded by D. V. Sadananda Gowda Succeeded by Constituency abolished | ||
Suresh prabhu arvind subramanian on indian railways and more
Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu (born 11 July 1953) is an Indian politician and the current Minister of Commerce & Industry of India, under the Narendra Modi government. He is a Chartered Accountant by profession and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Since 1996, Prabhu has been a repeatedly elected Member of Parliament from Rajapur Lok Sabha constituency in Maharashtra as a member of the Shiv Sena (SS) political party. He quit Shiv Sena and joined BJP on 9 November 2014. He currently represents Andhra Pradesh in Upper House of Indian Parliament.
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- Suresh prabhu arvind subramanian on indian railways and more
- Meet modi s ministers suresh prabhu
- Education and career
- Political career
- Personal life
- Awards
- References
Meet modi s ministers suresh prabhu
Education and career
Suresh Prabhu completed his school from Sharadashram Vidya Mandir, Dadar, Mumbai, followed by a Bachelor in Commerce with Honours from M.L. Dahanukar College, Vile Parle, Mumbai. He received a Bachelor in Law degree from the New Law College (Ruparel College campus), Mumbai. Prabhu is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He was All India 11th (eleventh) rank holder in CA exam.
Political career
He was, at various times during the Premiership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee of 1998 to 2004, Industry Minister, Minister of Environment and Forests, Minister of Fertilizers & Chemicals, Power, Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises. As the Union Minister for Power, he won praise for his performance. As Minister of Power, Prabhu introduced major reforms in India's power sector. He is credited with championing and enacting The Electricity Act, 2003 and the reforms that created securitization of dues from the states. He has been elected four time66s to the Lok Sabha, India's parliament, from Maharashtra since 1996. However, he lost his seat in the 2009 general election.
He was also Chairman of Task Force for Interlinking of Rivers with a status and rank of Union Cabinet Minister. He was elected a member of the World Bank parliamentary network and chaired the South Asia Water regional group of the World Bank.
Asia week rated him as one of three future leaders of India. As a mark of protest against the cancellation of Narendra Modi's keynote address at the Wharton India Economic Forum 2013, he called off his visit to the University. The NDA government under the leadership of Narendra Modi appointed him as the head of a high-level panel on power revamp — "Advisory Group for Integrated Development of Power, Coal and Renewable Energy" in July 2014.
On 9 November 2014, he was sworn-in as Cabinet minister in Narendra Modi government. He was the Union Railway Minister of India from November 2014 to September 2017. He is the incumbent minister of Commerce and Industry. He was elected as Rajya Sabha member from the state of Andhra Pradesh on 3 June 2016.
Personal life
He is married to journalist Uma Prabhu; they have a son, Ameya Prabhu.
Suresh Prabhu currently resides in Delhi and is a native of Medha - Malvan (District - Sindhudurg) Maharashtra.
Awards
He received the Goud Saraswat Brahmin Samaj Maharatha Award on 18 August 2016.