Mani Shankar Aiyar

Mani Shankar Aiyar (born April 10, 1941, Lahore) is a controversial Indian politician. He has been a member of the Indian National Congress party. He is the cabinet minister for Panchayati Raj and also for Youth Affairs & Sports in the Manmohan Singh government. He represents Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu in the 14th Lok Sabha. Image File history File links Indian politician Mani Shankar Aiyar Source: http://panchayat. ... April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ... The Minar-e-Pakistan represents Pakistani independence The Hazuri Bagh, looking towards the Roshnai Gate Lahore (Urdu: لاہور; Hindi: लाहौर) is a major city of Pakistan and is the capital of the province of Punjab. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Alternate meanings in cabinet (disambiguation) A Cabinet is a body of high-ranking members of government, typically representing the executive branch. ... Dr. Manmohan Singh (Punjabi: , Hindi: ) is the 14th, and current Prime Minister of India. ... Mayiladuthurai or Mayavaram is a famous town in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu state of India. ... Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ... Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the Parliament of India. ...

He attended The Doon School and St. Stephen's College, studied economics in Delhi and Cambridge and served for 26 years in the IFS, the last five of which were on deputation to the Prime Minister’s Office under Rajiv Gandhi (1985-89). He resigned from service in 1989 to take up a career in politics and the media, entering Parliament as a Congress MP from the state of Tamil Nadu in 1991, was badly mauled in 1996 and re-elected in 1999. The Doon School was one of Indias first public schools. ... St. ... It has been suggested that National Capital Territory of Delhi be merged into this article or section. ... Map of the Cambridgeshire area (1904) The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. ... The Indian Foreign Service (IFS) was established in September 1783 under the British Raj to conduct business with foreign European powers. ... Rajiv Ratna Gandhi (राजीव गान्धी) (August 20, 1944 – May 21, 1991), the eldest son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi, was the 6th Prime Minister of India (and the 3rd from their family) from his mothers death on 31 October 1984 until his resignation on December 2, 1989 following a general election... This article is about the year. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Parliament of India (or Sansad) is bicameral. ... Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

He is a special invitee to the Congress Working Committee and chairman of both the party’s political training department and the department of policy planning and coordination. He is, besides, a well-known political columnist and has written several books, including Pakistan Papers and Remembering Rajiv, as also edited a four-volume publication, Rajiv Gandhi’s India. The executive committee of the Congress Party in India, typically consisting of fifteen members elected from the All India Congress Committee or AICC, is known as the Congress Working Committee or CWC. It is headed by the Working President. ...

He is married, and has three grown-up daughters. His special interests include grassroots democracy, Indian foreign policy—particularly with India's neighborhood countries and West Asia—and nuclear disarmament. A map showing Southwest Asia - The term Middle East is more often used to refer to both Southwest Asia and some North African countries Southwest Asia, or West Asia, is the southwestern part of Asia. ... Nuclear disarmament is the proposed undeployment and dismantling of nuclear weapons particularly those the United States and the Soviet Union (later Russia) targeted on each other. ...

Controversies

Aiyar has frequently courted controversy through his off-the-cuff utterances. He published an article in Sunday in which he described the widowed Sheila Dixit (now the Chief Minister of Delhi) as a "gangster's moll"; for this, he was censured by the Press Council of India.He then went on to call his now Cabinet colleagus,P.Chidambaram "an amoral person" and Sharad Pawar a "racist and a worm." Sheila Dikshit (sometimes rendered Dixit) (born March 31, 1938) is the Chief Minister of Delhi since 1998. ... It has been suggested that National Capital Territory of Delhi be merged into this article or section. ... The Press Council Of India is a statutory body in India that governs the conduct of the print and broadcast media. ... P. Chidambaram is the finance minister of India in the Congress-led UPA government (2004-2009). ... Sharad Pawar Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar (born December 12, 1940) is president of the Nationalist Congress Party which he formed in 1999 in India. ...

At a party given by painter Satish Gujral, Aiyar got into a physical brawl with Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh, an incident that attracted headlines. Despite his conduct, he remained in Sonia Gandhi's good books. Executive President Vice-President Prime Minister Deputy Prime Minister The Union Ministries Legislative Parliament Rajya Sabha Chairman of the Rajya Sabha Lok Sabha Speaker of the House Judicial Supreme Court Chief Justice of the Supreme Court High Courts District Courts Constitution Fundamental Rights and Directive principles Regions States and territories... Amar Singh is an Indian politician from the state of Uttar Pradesh. ...

After Manmohan_Singh was sworn in as the Prime Minister of India, he famously declared, referring to Sonia Gandhi, "She's the queen, she is appointing a regent to run some of the government's business. But it is she who will be in charge." ^[1] Dr. Manmohan Singh (Punjabi: , Hindi: ) is the 14th, and current Prime Minister of India. ... Sonia Gandhi Sonia Gandhi (सोनिया गाँधी) (born December 9, 1946), is an Italian-born Indian politician, the President of the Indian National Congress (Congress Party) and the widow of former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi, who was the grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India. ...

While on a tour of the Andamans as Cabinet Minister was quoted as saying at the Cellular Jail there that there was no difference between the radical right-wing revolutionary Veer Savarkar, a famous inmate of the prison, and Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, as they shared a 'divisive' philosophy. He also ordered that a plaque with a poem commemorating Savarkar be replaced with a plaque with quotes from Mahatma Gandhi. Savarkar had been tried and acquitted for conspiring in Gandhi's assassination. Reports of the incident paralysed Parliament and led to agitations by the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra. Aiyar's remarks created confusion as well in the ruling party; the official spokesman, Anand Sharma, noted that the Congress Party did not consider Savarkar either a freedom fighter or a patriot; a few days later, the Prime Minister dissociated himself and the cabinet from that view. Ethnolinguistic map of the precolonial Andaman Islands The Andaman Islands are a group of islands in the Bay of Bengal, and are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India. ... The Cellular Jail (also known as Kalapani) was built in 1906 on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India). ... Veer Savarkar SEE Vinayak Damodar Savarkar External links Was Veer Savarkar a Nazi? - Dr Koenraad Elst Categories: Indian people stubs ... Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah (referred to in Pakistan as Quaid-e-Azam, or Great Leader, which is a legally defined title) (December 25, 1876 - September 11, 1948) was an Indian Muslim nationalist, who led the movement demanding a separate homeland for Muslims in... // Early life Gandhi and his wife Kasturba (1902) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born into a Hindu Modh family in Porbandar, Gujarat, India in 1869. ... The Parliament of India is bicameral. ... SS election symbol Shiv Sena or शिव सेना (meaning Army of Shiva, referring to Shivaji) is a political party in India founded on June 19, 1966 by Bal Thackeray, who is the president of the party. ... Maharashtra (Devanagari: महाराष्ट्र, literally: Great Nation)( (help· info)) is Indias third largest state in terms of area and second largest in terms of population after Uttar Pradesh. ... The Indian National Congress (also known as the Congress Party) is the largest subscription-based organisation in the world. ...

On elevation to the Cabinet he again annoyed many in a TV interview with noted journalist Prabhu Chawla in which he made impolite gestures with both his thumbs.

He has unapologetically described himself as Rajiv Gandhi's "willing slave", most recently on Rajat Sharma's TV programme. As his entry on the Lok Sabha roll shows, he continues to reside at Sainik Farm, declared an illegal colony by the Delhi High Court, despite being a Cabinet Minister. Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the Parliament of India. ... Sainik Farm is an illegal settlement in New Delhi inhabited by the wealthy and powerful. ... The High Court of Delhi was established on October 31, 1966. ...

References

External links

• Article in Economic Times about him dated May 23, 2004.
• Information as a member of 14th Lok Sabha on website of Lok Sabha
• Quote on cnn.com