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Santosh Gangwar
Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Labour and Employment
Incumbent
Assumed office 03 September 2017
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Bandaru Dattatreya
Minister of State for Finance
In office 05 July 2016 – 03 September 2017
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Jayant Sinha
Minister of Textiles
In office 26 May 2014 – 7 July 2016
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Preceded by	Kavuri Samba Siva Rao
Succeeded by	Smriti Irani
Member of Parliament for Bareilly
Incumbent
Assumed office 2014
Preceded by	Praveen Singh Aron
In office 1989–2009
Preceded by	Begum Abida Ahmed
Succeeded by	Praveen Singh Aron
Personal details
Born	(1948-11-01) 1 November 1948 (age 75) Bareilly, United Provinces, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse	Saubhagya Gangwar
Children	Apurva Gangwar 1 daughter
Parents	Late Shri Ram Lal Gangwar (father) Smt. Sheela Devi Gangwar (mother)
Residence	Bareilly
Alma mater	B.Sc. at Agra University LL.B. at Rohilkhand University
As of 22 September, 2006 Source: [1]

Santosh Kumar Gangwar (born 1 November 1948) is an Indian politician and the current Minister of State with independent charge in the Ministry of Labour and Employment in the Government of India.^[1] He is a Member of Parliament (16th Lok Sabha), former minister of state in Government of India and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has been Member of Parliament for the city of Bareilly since 1989 till date (except 2009-2014). He was also the chief whip of the party in 14th Lok Sabha. He faced defeat in the 15th Lok Sabha Elections, 2009 by a very narrow margin. He has been elected as Member of Parliament in 16th Lok Sabha. He won by a margin of over 2.4 lakh votes over his rival candidate in 2014 general election.

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Born on November 1, 1948 in Bareilly, Santosh Kumar Gangwar has been an alumnus of the Agra University and the Rohilkhand University in Uttar Pradesh from where he completed his B Sc and LLB Degrees.^[2]

Before joining politics, Gangwar was actively involved in the establishment of the Urban Cooperative Bank in Bareilly and held the position of its chairman since its beginning in the year 1996. In Bareilly, he has been given credit for getting several projects executed for public use such as Chaupla Railway over-bridge, state-of-the-art library and mini bye pass, etc. Married to Saubhagya Gangwar, he is blessed with two children (one son and one daughter).^{[3] [2]}

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Gangwar was jailed during the Emergency for guiding a people's movement against the then Government. He served as a member of the Uttar Pradesh State BJP Working Committee and held the position of General Secretary of the Uttar Pradesh BJP Unit in 1996.

Gangwar was elected for the first time to the 9th Lok Sabha^[4] in 1989 from the Bareilly constituency. He represented that constituency continuously until 2009 as a BJP Member of Parliament, which involved six successive terms.

He has held ministerial posts in the Government of India.^[3] He was Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas with additional charge of Parliament Affairs in 13th Lok Sabha. Prior to this, Gangwar was Minister of State of Science and Technology with additional charge of Parliamentary Affairs during October and November 1999

Currently,^[when?] He is Member of Parliament in 16th Lok Sabha.

He served in as Minister of State for Textiles from 26 May 2014 to 5 July 2016, after which he was sworn in as Minister of State for Finance.^[5]

Gangwar forayed into national politics in the year 1989, when he got elected from Bareilly in the 9th Lok Sabha on a BJP ticket. In 1996, Gangwar became the General Secretary of the BJP’s Uttar Pradesh unit. Later, he kept on winning from the same constituency and remained an MP in the next six successive terms till 2009. In the 14th Lok Sabha, he was the chief whip of his party, but in the year 2009 elections for 15th Lok Sabha, he had to face defeat by a narrow margin.^[2]

In April 2018 Gangwar stirred controversy by saying that "one should not make a big deal" about rape in a country as large as India. The statements followed two incidents where BJP leaders were implicated in violent sexual assault of minors^[6].

• 1989 onwards Member, State Working Committee, Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.),Uttar Pradesh
• 1989 Elected to 9th Lok Sabha
• 1990 Member, Committee on Privileges

          Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Commerce
          Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Transport and Tourism

• 1991 Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
• 1991-96 Whip, B.J.P. Parliamentary Party

          Member, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
          Member, Committee on Estimates
          Member, Committee on Government Assurances
          Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism

• 1996 Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
• 1996 onwards General Secretary, B.J.P., Uttar Pradesh
• 1996-97 Chairman, Committee on Agriculture
• 1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (4th term)
• 1998-99 Union Minister of State, Petroleum and Natural Gas with additional charge of Parliamentary Affairs
• 1999 Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (5th term)

       Special Invitee, General Purposes Committee, Lok Sabha

• Oct.-Nov. 1999 Union Minister of State, Science & Technology in addition, assisted Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
• 22 Nov. 1999- 29 Jan. 2003 Union Minister of State, Petroleum & Natural Gas; and additional charge of Parliamentary Affairs
• 29 Jan. 2003-24 May 2003 Union Minister of State, Petroleum and Natural Gas
• 24 May 2003- 8 Sept. 2003 Union Minister of State, Parliamentary Affairs; Labour
• 8 Sept. 2003- May 2004 Union Minister of State, Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises and additional charge of Parliamentary Affairs
• 2004 Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha (6th term)

       Chief Whip, Bharatiya Janata Party in Lok Sabha, Member, Committee on Petroleum & Natural Gas
       Member, Business Advisory Committee

• 5 Aug. 2007 Member, Standing Committee on Defence

       Member,Parliamentary Forum on Water Conservation & Management

• May, 2014 Re-elected to 16th Lok Sabha (7th term)
• 27 May 2014 onwards Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Ministry of Textile; Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs; and Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation^[7]

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Gangwar was instrumental in establishing the Urban Co-operative Bank Ltd. in Bareilly and was its chairman from its inception in 1996.

Under his commitment towards overall development of villages, he has initiated a project in Bareilly on Integrated Rural Development through Co-operative Movement using Animal Husbandry Technologies.

He has managed to get the Projects of CHOPULA Railway Over Bridge, Mini Bye Pass and state of Art library (Cantt) executed as pride milestones for Bareilly.

Chairman: (i) Urban Co-operative Bank Ltd., Bareilly; Member, (ii) Court of the Aligarh Muslim University; (iii) Governing Body, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (I.C.A.R.)^[9]

• Official biography from Parliament of India records