Ashwini Vaishnaw

Ashwini Vaishnaw is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Since 28 June 2019, he is the member of the Parliament of India representing Odisha State in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house.[1]

Ashwini Vaishnaw
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Assumed office
28 June 2019
Preceded bySoumya Ranjan Patnaik
ConstituencyOdisha
Personal details
Born
Ashwini Vaishnaw

1970
Jodhpur
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
ChildrenRahul Vaishnav, Tanya Vaishnav
EducationMBA, Wharton (University of Pennsylvania, USA), M.Tech, IIT Kanpur, Jai Narain Vyas University
OccupationEntrepreneur
WebsiteOfficial Website

Early Years and Education

Ashwini was born in Jodhpur in 1970. He graduated from Jai Narayan Vyas University, Rajasthan in 1992 with a gold medal in electronic and communications engineering course and then completed his M.Tech from IIT Kanpur, before cracking IAS in 1994 with an all-India rank of 27.[2] In 2008, Vaishnaw left for US to do his MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[3]

Years in Civil Services

Vaishnaw served as a collector in Balasore and Cuttack districts.[4] While a collector in Balasore district, National Human Rights Commission placed on record its appreciation of the sincerity, dedication and commitment displayed by Vaishnaw in organizing and executing relief and rehabilitation work in his district.[5]

In 1999, Odisha was hit by a super cyclone that killed thousands of people. Before the super cyclone hit the state, Vaishnaw logged into a US Navy website to track the path of the cyclone. He tracked the cyclone every hour and sent a report to the chief secretary at regular intervals, which became a major source of information for the Odisha government about the cyclone. This information helped government take necessary steps which saved many lives[6]

He worked in Odisha till 2003, when he was appointed as deputy secretary in the office of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. After his brief stint in the PMO where he contributed in creating the public-private-partnership framework in infrastructure projects, Vaishnaw was appointed as Vajpayee's private secretary after the BJP-led NDA lost election in 2004.[7]

In 2006, he became deputy chairman of Mormugao Port Trust, where he worked for next 2 years[8]

Entrepreneurial Journey

On completing MBA, Ashwini came back to India and joined GE Transportation as Managing Director.[9] Then he joined Siemens as the Vice President - Locomotives & Head Urban Infrastructure Strategy.[10]

In 2012, he quit the corporate sector and set up Three Tee Auto Logistics Private Limited and Vee Gee Auto Components Private Limited, both automotive components manufacturing units in Gujarat.[2]

Political career

He is currently Member of Indian Parliament representing Odisha State in the Rajya Sabha. He won the Rajya Sabha election unopposed with the help of Biju Janata Dal members in Odisha.[11][12] Vaishnaw was appointed as member of Committee on Subordinate Legislation and Petitions and Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests.[13][14]

Ashwini Vaishnaw has argued in Parliament that the current economic slowdown is cyclical in nature and is not a structural slowdown and that it is likely to bottom out by March and would be followed by solid growth. Vaishnaw firmly believes that the way to build the country is to put the money in investment rather than putting money in consumption.[15]

Vaishnaw has also supported the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019 on 5 December 2019 in Rajya Sabha. He believes the step of reducing or rather rationalizing the tax structure will increase the competitiveness of Indian industry and will also develop the capital base of the Indian industry. While supporting he furthered argued that the particular rationalization of tax structure will help the corporates to de-leverage and increase the retained earnings and reserves and surplus which will lay the foundation of the structural growth of the economy.[16]

Apart from these, he has also spoken on issues ranging from Ship Recycling Bill to Women Protection in Rajya Sabha to further the public discourse in those issues.

References

  1. "Statewise Retirement". 164.100.47.5. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  2. "BJP's Ashwini Vaishnaw elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Odisha". Hindustan Times. 29 June 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  3. Ashwini Vaishnav RS Candidature Fuels BJD-BJP Deal Talk Odisha Bytes - June 23, 2019
  4. "Ashwini Vaishnav RS Candidature Fuels BJD-BJP Deal Talk". ODISHA BYTES. 21 June 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  5. "NHRC Report 1999-2000" (PDF). nhrc.nic.in. 2000.
  6. "Former IAS contesting for Odisha RS seat brought BJP, BJD together". Hindustan Times. 28 June 2019. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  7. Gupta, Moushumi Das (25 June 2019). "The ex-IAS officer who is bringing Narendra Modi and Naveen Patnaik together". ThePrint. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  8. "In Odisha, BJD-BJP consensus candidate for Rajya Sabha bypoll joins BJP". Hindustan Times. 22 June 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  9. Mohanty, Meera (24 June 2019). "Naveen Patnaik's support to BJP man raises brows". The Economic Times. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  10. "Bureaucrats prefer MBA degree for better career prospects". www.businesstoday.in. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  11. "2 from BJD, 1 from BJP elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha". www.theweekendleader.com. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  12. ANI (28 June 2019). "Odisha: Amar Patnaik, Sasmit Patra and Ashwini Baishnab elected to Rajya Sabha". Business Standard India. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  13. Sep 15, TNN | Updated; 2019; Ist, 14:29. "Jual Oram to head parliamentary panel on defence". The Times of India. Retrieved 22 November 2019.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. OdAdmin (31 October 2019). "Rajya Sabha Committees constituted; Prasanna Acharya to head the Committee on Petitions". OdishaDiary. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  15. Bureau, Our. "Growth may have slowed, but there's no recession, says Nirmala Sitharaman". @businessline. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  16. "SYNOPSIS OF DEBATE - Rajya Sabha" (PDF). Rajya Sabha Official Website. 5 December 2019.
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