Minister of Communications and Information Technology
In office 2 September 2001 – 28 January 2003
Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by
Ram Vilas Paswan
Succeeded by
Arun Shourie
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
In office 13 October 1999 – 29 January 2003
Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by
Rangarajan Kumaramangalam
Succeeded by
Sushma Swaraj
In office 16 May 1996 – 1 June 1996
Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by
Ghulam Nabi Azad
Succeeded by
Ram Vilas Paswan
Minister of Defence
In office 16 May 1996 – 1 June 1996
Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by
P. V. Narasimha Rao
Succeeded by
Mulayam Singh Yadav
Minister of Information and Broadcasting
In office 05 December 1998 – 13 October 1999
Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded by
Sushma Swaraj
Succeeded by
Arun Jaitley
Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha
In office 1996–1998
Preceded by
Gurudas Kamat
Succeeded by
Gurudas Kamat
Constituency
Mumbai North East
Personal details
Born
Pramod Venkatesh Mahajan
(1949-10-30)30 October 1949 Mahbubnagar, Hyderabad State (present-day Telangana), India
Died
3 May 2006(2006-05-03) (aged 56) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Cause of death
Homicide
Political party
Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse
Rekha Mahajan
Children
Rahul Mahajan Poonam Mahajan
Relatives
Gopinath Munde (brother-in-law)
Residence(s)
Worli, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
As of 5 May 2006
Source: [1]
Pramod Venkatesh Mahajan (30 October 1949 – 3 May 2006) was an Indian politician from Maharashtra.[1] A second-generation leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he belonged to a group of relatively young "technocratic" leaders. 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.[2]
He was a member of the Rajya Sabha and a General Secretary of his party. He contested only two Lok Sabha 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. He was widely seen as a successful Parliamentary Affairs minister due to his good relations with members of political parties across the ideological spectrum.[3]
On 22 April 2006, he was shot by his brother Pravin Mahajan over a family dispute. He succumbed to his injury 13 days later. Pravin was sentenced to lifetime imprisonment by the court in 2007.
^Revathi Krishnan (3 May 2020). "Pramod Mahajan, BJP's master strategist and troubleshooter before Amit Shah". theprint.in. ThePrint. Retrieved 3 May 2020. Pramod Mahajan was the brain behind the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance in Maharashtra and was believed to be the only person Bal Thackeray trusted in the party
^Biswas, Soutik (30 December 2005). "What next for the BJP?". BBC News. Retrieved 2 September 2005.
^"Mahajan, Shri Pramod. Biographical sketch". Rajya Sabha. Archived from the original on 30 April 2006. Retrieved 2 September 2006.
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