Jagatvir Singh Drona

Jagat Vir Singh Drona
जगत वीर सिंह द्रोण
Jagat Vir Singh Drona; जगत वीर सिंह द्रोण
Mayor of Kanpur
	In office; July 2012 – 1 December 2017
Preceded by	Ravindra Patni
Succeeded by	Pramila Pandey
Personal details
Born	23 July 1939; Rajugela, United Provinces, British India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse(s)	Renu Drona (m.1969)
Children	Shashank Drona (Son); Anamika Bhargava (Daughter); Ambika Lavania (Daughter); Jaya Drona Dixit (Daughter)
Education	B. Pe.

Captain (Retd.) Pandit Jagat Vir Singh Drona (born 23 July 1939) is the former mayor of Kanpur and a former member of the 10th,11th and 12th Lok Sabha.[1] He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party. He served in the Indian army before joining politics in 1990.[2]

Positions held

1990-92 President, Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.), District. Kanpur

1991 Elected to 10th Lok Sabha

1991-96 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Steel

1993 Deputy Chief Whip, B.J.P. Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha onwards

1993-95 Member, Committee on Public Accounts

1993-96 Member, Rules Committee

1994-96 Member, Committee on Defence

Member, Committee on Steel

1996 Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (2nd term)

1996-97 Member, Committee on Estimates

Member, Committee on Home Affairs

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Defence

1997 Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee, Wakf Board

1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (3rd term)

Secretary, B.J.P. Parliamentary Party

1998-99 Member, Committee on Transport and Tourism

Member, Joint Committee on the Empowerment of Women and its Sub-Committee on Appraisal of Laws relating to Women - Criminal Laws

Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Railways

2012-17 Hon'ble Mayor of Kanpur

References

"India News, Latest Sports, Bollywood, World, Business & Politics News". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
https://web.archive.org/web/20121008013334/http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok12/biodata/12up65.htm. Archived from the original on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2012. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[1] "India News, Latest Sports, Bollywood, World, Business & Politics News". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2015.

[2] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20121008013334/http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok12/biodata/12up65.htm. Archived from the original on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2012. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)