Dinesh Trivedi belongs from All India Trinamool Congress and is a Member of Parliament of the 16th Lok Sabha representing the Barrackpur (Lok Sabha constituency), West Bengal. He is the former Union Minister for Railways and the former Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare. He is also serving as the Chairman of the Indo-European Union Parliamentary Forum (IEUPF), and other Parliamentary Forums.
Political Career of Dinesh Trivedi
Early Life of Dinesh Trivedi
Dinesh Trivedi was born on 4th June 1950. He did his B.Com from St.Xavier`s College, Kolkata. A graduate in commerce from St. Xavier`s College, Kolkata and an M.B.A. from the University of Texas, USA. Dinesh Trivedi is the youngest child in the Gujarati family. His father`s name was Hiralal Trivedi and his mother`s name was Urmila Trivedi. The family migrated to India from Karachi during the Partition of India in the year 1947, where all his other siblings were born. His parents lived in a number of places before coming to New Delhi, where he was born. His father then started working for the Hindustan Construction Company in Kolkata.
Dinesh Trivedi is also the General Secretary of All India Trinamool Congress. He is also the Chairman of the Indo-European Union Parliamentary Forum (IEUPF), established on 2 April 2005. He was the Minister for Railways and he joined in the cabinet as the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare in the year 2009.
Positions held by Dinesh Trivedi
| Member of Parliament (1990–2008) | Rajya Sabha |
| Chairman | Passengers Amenities Committee, Ministry of Railways |
| Member | Committee on Rules |
| Member | Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Civil Aviation |
| Member | Civil Aviation Committee |
| Member | Committee on Finance |
| Member | Committee on Commerce |
| Vice-Chairman | Rajya Sabha |
| Member | Committee on Petitions |
| Member | Committee on Public Undertakings Member, General Purposes Committee |
| Co-Convener | Sub-Committee for Special Economic Zones of the Committee on Commerce |
