Shatrughan Sinha

Shatrughan Sinha
Sinha in 2017
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Assumed office
16 April 2022 (2022-04-16)
Preceded byBabul Supriyo
ConstituencyAsansol, West Bengal
In office
2009 (2009)–2019 (2019)[1]
Preceded byconstituency established
Succeeded byRavi Shankar Prasad[2]
ConstituencyPatna Sahib,[3] Bihar
35th Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare
In office
22 July 2002 (2002-07-22) – 29 January 2003 (2003-01-29)[1]
Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded byC. P. Thakur
Succeeded bySushma Swaraj
3rd Union Minister of Shipping
In office
30 January 2003 (2003-01-30) – 22 May 2004 (2004-05-22)[1]
Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded byVed Prakash Goyal
Succeeded byK. Chandrashekhar Rao
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
1996 (1996)–2008 (2008)[1]
ConstituencyBihar
Personal details
Born
Shatrughan Prasad Sinha

(1946-07-15) 15 July 1946 (age 78)
Patna, Bihar, British India
Political partyAll India Trinamool Congress (2022–present)
Other political
affiliations
Indian National Congress (2019–2022)
Bharatiya Janata Party (1980–2019)
Spouse
(m. 1980)
Children3, including Sonakshi Sinha and Luv Sinha
Residence(s)10, Talkatora Road, New Delhi, Delhi, India
Alma materPatna Science College, Patna
FTII, Pune
Occupation
  • Actor
  • politician
Nickname(s)Shotgun, Shatru[4]

Shatrughan Prasad Sinha (born 15 July 1946) is an Indian actor and politician. He is a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Asansol constituency as a member of All India Trinamool Congress (TMC). Earlier he was elected as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (2009–2014, 2014–2019) from Patna Sahib.[3] He was also a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha during 1996–2002 and 2002–2008.[1] He was a Union Cabinet Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Shipping in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.[1] He was a member of standing committee on transport, tourism and culture and member of consultative committee in ministry of external affairs and overseas Indian affairs from 2014 to 2019.[1] In 2016, his biography, Anything but Khamosh,[5] was released.

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Members : Lok Sabha". 164.100.47.194. Archived from the original on 5 July 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Ravi Shankar Prasad pulls off stunning victory in Patna Sahib". The Times of India. 23 May 2019. Archived from the original on 29 June 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  3. ^ a b "MP Details".
  4. ^ Raheja, Dinesh (13 March 2003). "How Shatru became Shotgun!". www.Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 6 May 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  5. ^ Pradhan, Bharathi S. (2016). Book. Om Books International. ISBN 9789385609596. Archived from the original on 14 February 2017.

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