Motilal Vora
Motilal Vora (20 December 1928 – 21 December 2020) was an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress (INC). He served as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh (1985–1988; 1989). He was born in Nimbi Jodha, Jodhpur State, British India. He was also Governor of Uttar Pradesh from 1993 to 1996.
Contents
- 1 Early life
- 2 State politics
- 3 National politics
- 4 Role in the Indian National Congress
- 5 Death
- 6 References
Early life
Motilal Vora was born on 20 December 1928 at Nimbi Jodha in Jodhpur State of British India's Rajputana Agency (present-day Nagaur district, Rajasthan) to a Pushkarna Brahmin family. His parents were Mohanlal Vora and Amba Bai. His forefathers came from Nimbi Jodha, and prior to that from Phalodi. He received his education at Raipur and Kolkata. He had also worked with several newspapers for many years. He married Shanti Devi Vora. The couple have four daughters and two sons. His son Arun Vora is an MLA from Durg (CG), having won three elections as MLA. His brother Govindlal Vora was Veteran Journalist and Chief Editor of Amrit Sandesh. His nephew Rajeev Vora is Secretary of Pragati College of Engineering and Management, Raipur.
State politics
In 1968, Vora, then, a member of Samajwadi party, became a member of the Municipal Committee of Durg (then part of Madhya Pradesh). In 1970 (approximately), he, with the help of Prabhat Tiwari, was introduced to Pt. Kishorilal Shukla of INC and joined INC. He was elected to the Legislative *embly (Vidhan Sabha) of Madhya Pradesh in 1972 on an INC ticket. He was elected to Vidhan Sabha again in 1977 and 1980. He was appointed as a minister of State in Arjun Singh's Cabinet, and was in-charge of the Higher Education Department. He was elevated to the Cabinet Minister in 1983. He also served as the Deputy Chairman of Madhya Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation during 1981–84.
On 13 March 1985, Vora was appointed Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. He resigned from the post of Chief Minister on 13 February 1988, to join the Union Government.
National politics
On 14 February 1988, Vora became a member of the Rajya Sabha, and *umed the office of Union Minister of Health, Family Welfare and Civil Aviation. He was a cabinet minister in Government of India. He was appointed as Governor of Uttar Pradesh on 16 May 1993 and held office till 3 May 1996. Motilal Vora was in 1998–99 Member of the 12th Lok Sabha.
Role in the Indian National Congress
Vora was very close to High Command of INC, and has supported nomination of Rahul Gandhi as the party's Prime Ministerial candidate. In the 1980s, he served as the President of the Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee, the party's state unit.
Vora held important positions in all the three en*ies involved in the National Herald Case: the *ociated Journals Limited (AJL), the Young Indian and the All India Congress Committee (AICC). He became the chairman and managing director of AJL on 22 March 2002. He served as the AICC treasurer before that. He was a 12% shareholder and a Director of Young Indian.
Death
Vora died from complications from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in India, one day after his 92nd birthday.
References
- UDAN
- Vande Bharat Mission
- National Infrastructure Pipeline
- Civil Air Department RG-1 Rohini
- Civil Aviation Department MG-1
- Civil Aviation Department Mrigasheer
- Civil Aviation Department Revathi
- Hindustan Ardhra
- Pradeep Singh Kharola(in*bent)
- John Mathai(Minister of Transport)
- N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar(Minister of Transport and Railways)
- Lal Bahadur Shastri(Minister of Railways and Transport)
- Hari Vinayak Pataskar
- Lal Bahadur Shastri(Minister of Transport and Communications)
- S. K. Patil(Minister of Transport and Communications)
- P. Subbarayan(Minister of Transport and Communications)
- Jagjivan Ram(Minister of Transport and Communications)
- Satya Narayan Sinha
- Nityanand Kanungo(As MoS)
- Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy(Minister of Transport, Aviation, Shipping, and Tourism)
- Karan Singh
- Raj Bahadur
- Kotha Raghuramaiah
- Purushottam Kaushik
- Mohammad Shafi Qureshi
- Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
- Anant Prasad Sharma
- Bhagwat Jha Azad (MoS, IC)
- Khurshed Alam Khan
- Jagdish Tytler
- Motilal Vora
- Shivraj Patil (MoS, IC)
- Arif Mohammed Khan
- Harmohan Dhawan(MoS, IC)
- Madhavrao Scindia
- Ghulam Nabi Azad
- V. Dhananjaya *ar
- Ananth *ar
- Sharad Yadav
- Syed Shahnawaz Hussain
- Rajiv Pratap Rudy (MoS, IC)
- Praful Patel (MoS, IC)
- Vayalar Ravi
- Ajit Singh
- Ashok Ga*athi Raju
- Narendra Modi
- Suresh Prabhu
- Hardeep Singh Puri(MoS, IC)(in*bent)
- Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan