Purushottam Kaushik | |
Office: | Minister of Information and Broadcasting |
Term Start: | 28 July 1979 |
Term End: | 14 January 1980 |
Predecessor: | L. K. Advani |
Successor: | Vasant Sathe |
Office1: | Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation |
Term Start1: | 26 March 1977 |
Term End1: | 15 July 1979 |
Predecessor1: | Kotha Raghuramaiah |
Successor1: | Mohammad Shafi Qureshi |
Office2: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
Constituency2: | Durg, Madhya Pradesh |
Term2: | 1989-1991 |
Predecessor2: | Chandulal Chandrakar |
Successor2: | Chandulal Chandrakar |
Constituency3: | Raipur, Madhya Pradesh |
Term3: | 1977-1980 |
Predecessor3: | Vidya Charan Shukla |
Successor3: | Keyur Bhushan |
Party: | Janata Dal |
Otherparty: | Samyukta Socialist Party, Janata Party |
Birth Date: | 24 September 1930 |
Birth Place: | Mahasamund, Central Provinces, British India |
Death Place: | Mahasamund, Chhattisgarh, India |
Spouse: | Amrit Kaushik[1] |
Children: | 3 |
Source: | https://loksabha.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/2415.htm |
Purushottam Lal Kaushik (24 September 1930 – 5 October 2017)[2] was an Indian Politician.
He was elected to the Lok Sabha the lower house of the Indian Parliament from Raipur in 1977 and Durg in 1989 from Madhya Pradesh as a member of the Janata Dal.[3] He was the Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation in the Morarji Desai ministry and later Minister of Information and Broadcasting in the Charan Singh ministry[4] [5]