Oscar Fernandes
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Oscar Fernandes | |
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Director of The Young Indian | |
Assumed office 22 January 2011 | |
Director of The Associated Journals Private Limited | |
Assumed office 17 June 2010 | |
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | |
Assumed office 1 July 1998 | |
Constituency | Karnataka |
Minister for Road Transport and Highways | |
In office 17 June 2013 – 26 May 2014 | |
Prime Minister | Manmohan Singh |
Preceded by | C. P. Joshi |
Succeeded by | Nitin Gadkari |
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
In office 18 January 1980 – 10 May 1996 | |
Preceded by | T. A. Pai |
Succeeded by | I. M. Jayarama Shetty |
Constituency | Udupi |
Personal details | |
Born | Udupi, South Canara, British India | 27 March 1941
Nationality | India |
Political party | Indian National Congress |
Spouse | Blossom Fernandes |
Children | 2 |
Residence(s) | Doris Rest Haven, Ambalpady, Udupi. |
Dr. Oscar Fernandes (born 27 March 1941) is an Indian politician, a senior Indian National Congress leader and was the Union Cabinet Minister for Transport, Road and Highways and Labour and Employment, Government Of India in UPA government. He is one of the closest confidants of the present Congress President Rahul Gandhi and one of the major leaders in the taking of important decisions of Congress Party. He is also the Chairman of Central Election Authority of the All India Congress Committee. He was previously the AICC General Secretary, the Minister of State (Independent charge) of the Ministry of Labour and Employment in Dr. Manmohan Singh's first UPA government in India. He served as Parliamentary Secretary to Rajiv Gandhi. He was elected to the 7th Lok Sabha in 1980 from Udupi constituency in Karnataka. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1984, 1989, 1991 and 1996 from the same constituency. Later, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1998. He was re-elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2004. He was a Union Minister from 2004–2009, holding a number of portfolios such as Statistics and Programme Implementation, NRI Affairs, Youth and Sports Affairs and Labour and Employment. He served two terms as a member of the Council of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Personal life
Oscar was born to Roque Fernandes, the head of Government Composite PU College and the first President of Manipal Institute of Technology and Leonissa M. Fernandes, the first female magistrate in India, at the family estate at Udupi. Fernandes was one of 12 children in his family, and grew up with a strong Catholic background. As a child he was an altar boy, and as a youth he was active in Church activities. His family belongs to the Fernandes-Prabhu clan, a Mangalorean Catholic Brahmin clan from Udyavara in Udupi district.[1] He married Blossom Mathias Prabhu on 26 August 1981 and has one son Oshan and one daughter Oshanie. His son Oshan is married to Frazil Quadros and Oscar's daughter Oshanie is married to Mark Saldanha. In 2002 Fernandes inaugurated the Glowinstar Academy, an integrated development school, in Ambalpady, dedicated to his father, Roque.
Citations
References
- Lobo, Michael (2000). Distinguished Mangalorean Catholics, 1800–2000: a historico-biographical survey of the Mangalorean Catholic community. Camelot Publishers. ISBN 978-81-87609-01-8.
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External links
- Detailed Profile: Oscar Fernandes in India.gov.in website
- Use dmy dates from February 2012
- 1941 births
- Living people
- Indian National Congress politicians from Karnataka
- Members of the Cabinet of India
- Mangaloreans
- People from Udupi
- 7th Lok Sabha members
- 8th Lok Sabha members
- 9th Lok Sabha members
- 10th Lok Sabha members
- 11th Lok Sabha members
- Rajya Sabha members from Karnataka
- Lok Sabha members from Karnataka
- Udupi municipal councillors
- Labour ministers of India