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Suresh Prabhu is an Indian politician and the current Minister of Commerce and Industry in the Government of India. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a former member of the Shiv Sena.
Born on 11 July 1953 in Bombay State, Suresh Prabhu completed his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Mumbai in 1974. He then went on to pursue a Master of Business Administration degree from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies in 1976.
Suresh Prabhu began his political career in 1996 when he was elected to the 11th Lok Sabha from Rajapur constituency in Maharashtra. He was re-elected to the 12th Lok Sabha in 1998 and served as the Minister of Environment and Forests in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. He was also the Minister of Power in the same government.
In 2014, Suresh Prabhu joined the BJP and was appointed as the Minister of Railways in the Narendra Modi government. He held the post until 2017 and was then appointed as the Minister of Commerce and Industry.
Suresh Prabhu is married to Uma Prabhu and the couple has two children. He is 67 years old as of 2021.
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Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu |
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71 years old |
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Cancer |
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11 July 1953 |
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11 July |
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Bombay, Bombay State, India |
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Suresh Prabhu Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Suresh Prabhu's Wife?
His wife is Uma Prabhu (m. 1984)
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Uma Prabhu (m. 1984) |
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1 (Son) |
Suresh Prabhu Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Suresh Prabhu worth at the age of 71 years old? Suresh Prabhu’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from . We have estimated
Suresh Prabhu's net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Pending |
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Under Review |
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He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of India’s International Movement to Unite Nations IIMUN.
He took the charge as the Union Minister of Civil Aviation on 10 March 2018 in the Narendra Modi government after the Telugu Desam Party withdrew support to the government.
He has been the minister of Commerce and Industry since September 2017. He was elected as Rajya Sabha member from the state of Andhra Pradesh on 3 June 2016.
Suresh Prabhu received the Goud Saraswat Brahmin Samaj Maharatha Award on 18 August 2016.
He is a Chartered Accountant by profession and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). Since 1996, Prabhu has been repeatedly elected as a Member of Parliament from Rajapur Lok Sabha constituency in Maharashtra as a member of the Shiv Sena (SS) political party. He quit Shiv Sena and joined the BJP on 9 November 2014. He currently represents Andhra Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha.
On 9 November 2014, he was sworn-in as Cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi government. He was the Union Railway Minister of India from November 2014 to September 2017. He offered his resignation from this position after a disastrous week in which 3 major accidents occurred, with over 300 total casualties. However, PM Modi refused to accept it, instead transferring him to Civil Aviation.
He has constantly featured in the list of top five ministers in India from 2014 to 2017 in terms of both performance and accessibility in nation-wide surveys conducted by various institutions.
As a mark of protest against the cancellation of Narendra Modi's keynote address at the Wharton India Economic Forum 2013, he called off his own visit to the University. The NDA government under the leadership of Narendra Modi appointed him first as the head of a high-level panel on power revamp — "Advisory Group for Integrated Development of Power, Coal and Renewable Energy" in July 2014. In August 2014, he was appointed PM Modi's Sherpa.
Suresh Prabhu completed his schooling from Sharadashram Vidya Mandir, Dadar, Mumbai, followed by a Bachelor in Commerce with Honours from M. L. Dahanukar College, Vile Parle, Mumbai. He received a Bachelor in Law degree from the New Law College (Ruparel College campus), Mumbai. Prabhu is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He was All India 11th (eleventh) rank holder in CA exam.
As the Union Minister for Power, he won praise for his performance. As Minister of Power, Prabhu introduced major reforms in India's power sector. He is credited with championing and enacting The Electricity Act, 2003 and the reforms that created securitization of dues from the states. He has been elected four times to the Lok Sabha, India's parliament, from Maharashtra since 1996. However, he lost his seat in the 2009 general election.
He was, at various times during the Premiership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee from 1998 to 2004, Industry Minister, Minister of Environment and Forests, Minister of Fertilizers & Chemicals, Power, Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises.
Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu (born 11 July 1953) is an Indian politician and India's Sherpa to the G20. He was formerly the Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation in the First Modi ministry.
