Madhu Dandavate | |
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| Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission | |
| In office 1 August 1996 – 21 March 1998 | |
| Preceded by | Pranab Mukherjee |
| Succeeded by | Jaswant Singh |
| In office 7 July 1990 – 10 December 1990 | |
| Preceded by | Ramakrishna Hegde |
| Succeeded by | Mohan Dharia |
| Minister of Finance | |
| In office 2 December 1989 – 10 November 1990 | |
| Prime Minister | V. P. Singh |
| Preceded by | Shankarrao Chavan |
| Succeeded by | Yashwant Sinha |
| Minister of Railways | |
| In office 1977–1979 | |
| Prime Minister | Morarji Desai |
| Preceded by | Kamalapati Tripathi |
| Succeeded by | Kamalapati Tripathi |
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| In office 1971–1991 | |
| Preceded by | Nath Pai |
| Succeeded by | Sudhir Sawant |
| Constituency | Rajapur, Maharashtra |
| Member of Maharashtra Legislative Council | |
| In office 1970–1971 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 January 1924 Ahmednagar, Bombay Presidency, British India (now in Maharashtra, India) |
| Died | 12 November 2005 (aged 81) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Nationality | •  British India (1924-1947)•  India (1947-2005) |
| Political party | Janata Dal |
| Other political affiliations | • Janata Party[1] • Praja Socialist Party[2] |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Uday Dandavate (Son) |
| Source: [1] | |
Madhu Dandavate (21 January 1924 – 12 November 2005) was an Indian physicist and socialist politician, who served as Minister of Railways in the Morarji Desai ministry, and as Minister of Finance in the V P Singh ministry.[3][4][5]
Born in Ahmednagar, Bombay Presidency, Dandavate studied and was employed as a physicist in Bombay, before participating in the Quit India Movement in 1942.[3][6] After independence, he served as a Member of Parliament from Rajapur in Maharashtra from 1971 to 1991.[3][7] As an opposition politician, Dandavate was jailed during the Emergency.[8] Serving as Railway Minister from 1977 to 1979, he initiated a number of improvements, most notably providing more comfortable cushioned seats to second-class passengers, a measure that "helped hundreds of millions of people". Later in the late 1980s, he served as Finance Minister.[4][3][9]
A prominent socialist politician and opposition leader, Dandavate was respected for his integrity, knowledge, simplicity and pragmatism, with historian Ramachandra Guha placing him among the few ministers who "shall be remembered for having carried out programmes that radically reshaped the lives of their people".[4][3][7][9]
- ^ "State wise Details Maharashtra". Lok Sabha. Archived from the original on 1 July 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
- ^ "General Elections, India, 1971 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). Election Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
- ^ a b c d e Deol, Taran (21 January 2020). "Madhu Dandavate — two inches of foam that he gifted Indians and the letters he wrote". ThePrint. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- ^ a b c Guha, Ramachandra (20 November 2005). "TWO INCHES OF FOAM, The Hindu". ramachandraguha.in. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- ^ "Madhu Dandavate passes away at 81". The Times of India. 13 November 2005. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
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:5was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Guha, Ramachandra (2008). India After Gandhi. London: Picador. pp. 526–527. ISBN 978-0-330-50554-3.