Makhan Lal Fotedar
Makhan Lal Fotedar | |
|---|---|
Minister of Steel and Mines | |
| In office 25 July 1987 – 2 December 1989 | |
| Prime Minister | Rajiv Gandhi |
| Preceded by | Vasant Sathe |
| Succeeded by | Dinesh Goswami |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 5, 1932 Gurgaon, Haryana |
| Political party | Indian National Congress |
| Other political affiliations | All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) (1996–1998) |
Makhan Lal Fotedar (born 5 March 1932 in
Gurgaon, Haryana) was an Indian politician who was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress political party. He was a close aide of the Nehru–Gandhi family, especially Indira Gandhi
.
He was also a leader of the Kashmiri Pandits. He had been a cabinet minister in the Government of India and had held important cabinet posts.
From 1967 to 1977, he was member of
Pahalgam constituency and was also cabinet minister in the government of Jammu and Kashmir under Syed Mir Qasim. He had been an MP from Rajya Sabha from 1985 to 1996. He was known as the Chanakya
of Indian politics in the eyes of Congress party.
He resigned from the
Arjun Singh, he split from All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) but returned to Indian National Congress after Sonia Gandhi took over as congress President.[1][2]
He died on 28 September 2017, at a hospital in
Gurgaon, Haryana with his family, and was survived by three sons and two daughters.[3]