Ashwani kumar

Ashwani kumar,He was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2002 and served as chairman of the House and chairman of its Vichar Vibhag (intellectual cell). Congressional sources said that Kumar enjoys the confidence of both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party president Sonia Gandhi.A ministerial berth Rajya Sabha member Ashwani Kumar is seen as an effort to give greater representation to Punjab, which for the next elections year.All three ministers of the Rajya Sabha.

Congress Rajya Sabha member Ashwani Kumar, who on Wednesday was included in the Council of Ministers of the Union as Minister of State, is a lawyer who took responsibility for organizing the serval. He was a minister in the last United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.Kumar, 58, who is from Punjab, was Minister of State at the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion in the previous government of the UPA. In the first major revision of the UPA Government II, was inducted as Minister of State for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs, and science and technology and earth sciences.

Born in 1952, Kumar is the son of freedom fighter and former president of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, the late Prabodh Chandra. He graduated from St. Stephen's College, New Delhi, and studied law at the University of Delhi. Kumar holds a doctorate in law from Punjab University and M. Phil in International Law, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.With his induction, there are now three ministers of Punjab, in the council of ministers . In addition to Kumar, the other two are information and broadcasting minister Ambika Soni and MS Gill, who gave the statistics of portfolio and program implementation.