Vinay Sahasrabuddhe

Vinay Prabhakar Sahasrabuddhe is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament of India representing state of Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha. He is also serving as National Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party.[2] Mr. Sahasrabuddhe has been appointed as President of Indian Council for Cultural Relations by President of India.[3] He is known as a political scholar[4] and an occasional columnist.[5] He is the Vice Chairman of Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini, a research and training academy for elected representatives & social activists.[6] He heads BJP's think tank Public Policy Research Centre.[7][8]

Vinay Sahasrabuddhe
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha [1]
Assumed office
5 July 2016
Preceded byVijay J. Darda, INC
National Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party
Assumed office
2014
Personal details
Born (1957-11-10) 10 November 1957
Nashik, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Spouse(s)Nayana Sahasrabuddhe
Children1
EducationPh.D.
Alma materUniversity of Pune
Websitevinaysahasrabuddhe.in

Early life and education

Sahasrabuddhe was born in a middle-class Maharashtrian family on 10 November 1957 in Nashik. He started his schooling in Dhule, a native place of Sahasrabuddhes and later at Trimbak Vidya Mandir near Nashik.[9] While in 4th standard, he gave a competitive examination and got selected for Government Public School, Nashik (Shaskiya Vidya Niketan).

In February 2009, Sahasrabuddhe was awarded a Ph.D by the University of Mumbai.[10]

Political career

He started his career in public life with Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a student's organization ideologically connected with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He worked as a full-time activist of ABVP during 1983 to 1985.[11] In 1988, Sahasrabuddhe joined Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini(RMP) as principal functionary. For over 18 years, he was a Member of Senate of the University of Mumbai.[12] He is also a Member of the Board of Governors of Sardar Patel Institute of Public Administration in Ahmedabad.[13] In May 2002, he led the mission of Indian Voluntary Organisations to Afghanisthan.[14]

He is a national Vice-President of BJP and behind the scene, he is considered as one of the key members of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s think tank.[15][16] He is the Chief of BJP backed think tank Public Policy Research Centre(PPRC) which is based in Delhi.[17] When Nitin Gadkari was appointed as president of BJP in the year 2009, Sahasrabuddhe served as Gadkari's political advisor.[18] Within BJP, he initiated training of 125 ministers from BJP-ruled states in year 2010 was one among it.[19] In March 2012, his name was in news as one of the contenders for the Rajya Sabha nomination from the BJP for a seat vacated by BJP veteran late Balavant Apte.[20] He was the member of BJP's Vision Document Committee for the 2014 Indian general election.[21] Vinay Sahasrabuddhe is also In-Charge of BJP, Madhya Pradesh. Currently, He is a Member of Parliament from Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha.[22] He also mentors a youth-centred policy think tank, Vision India Foundation.[23]

Literary works

He authored a book Beyond A Billion Ballots,[24] which was first published on 27 June 2013 in Mumbai.[25] The book also launched at New Delhi at the hands of Former Chief Election Commissioner of India Dr. SY Quraishi.[26] He has been an occasional contributor to many English and Marathi language newspapers and weeklies.[27][28][29][30] He has also authored few Books in Marathi language which includes Ekaki Purvanchal, a book on North-East states of India.[31] In 1998, Sahasrabuddhe received the award for best literary work from the Government of Maharashtra for his co-edited work Nivadak Manoos, a book in Marathi language.[32]

References
  1. "Piyush Goyal, Chidambaram, Suresh Prabhu, Sharad Yadav elected to Rajya Sabha". 3 June 2016 – via The Economic Times.
  2. Vinay, Sahasrabuddhe. "BJP's National Office Bearers".
  3. "President appoints BJP leader Vinay Sahasrabuddhe as Indian Council of Cultural Relations President". The New Indian Express. 29 December 2017.
  4. "Paper submitted to the conference 'Learning Democracy by Doing' at University of Toronto". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. "List of articles on NDTV". www.ndtv.com.
  6. "List of Managing Committee given on RMP website". Archived from the original on 5 November 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  7. Sahasrabuddhe, Vinay (9 June 2014). "Those Hard Thinking Caps Realigned". Outlook Magazine.
  8. Sahasrabuddhe, Vinay. "Board of Directors PPRC". Archived from the original on 7 January 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  9. "Vinay Sahasrabuddhe". www.vinaysahasrabuddhe.in.
  10. "As per the profile given on PPRC website". Archived from the original on 6 May 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  11. "The rise and rise of ABVP's stars". The Economic Times. 5 April 2010. Archived from the original on 13 July 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  12. "Vinay Sahasrabuddhe's introduction on IBN LIVE website". IBN Live. 24 March 2009.
  13. "Minutes of the Meeting of Board of Governors" (PDF).
  14. "Kabul sends SOS for Indian professionals". Times of India. 18 May 2002.
  15. "Man who showed RSS modern ways is Gadkari's guide now". DNA. 2 February 2010.
  16. "Vinay Sahasrabuddhe's introduction given in Outlook Magazine's article". Outlook. 25 January 2010.
  17. "BJP launches its own think tank". The New Indian Express. 22 October 2013.
  18. "Parrikar, Sahasrabuddhe in Gadkari team". Indian Express. 24 December 2009.
  19. "BJP to send ministers to 'school for governance". The Economics Times. 10 November 2006.
  20. "Family's party ties, his Gadkari link helped Sancheti get RS ticket". Indian Express. 21 March 2012.
  21. "BJP's team for 2014 announced; several top party leaders to assist Modi". Dainik Jagran. 20 July 2013.
  22. http://www.bjp.org/organisation/state-prabhari
  23. "Team". 19 December 2014.
  24. Sahasrabuddhe, Vinay (15 July 2014). Beyond a Billion Ballots: Democratic Reforms for a Resurgent India. Wisdom Tree. ISBN 978-81-8328-322-9.
  25. "Shri Narendra Modi at the launch of book, "Beyond a Billion Ballots". FirstPost. 30 July 2012. Archived from the original on 8 September 2014.
  26. "By the ballot". The Hindu. 16 October 2013.
  27. "Articles of Vinay Sahasrabuddhe in The Asian Age".
  28. "Think, feel, live like a woman. Article by Vinay Sahasrabuddhe". Deccan Herald. 9 January 2013.
  29. "Common ethos vs small identities. Article by Vinay Sahasrabuddhe". DNA. 22 September 2010.
  30. "At 60, Parliament must rejuvenate". The Pioneer. 11 May 2012. Archived from the original on 28 August 2013.
  31. Sahasrabuddhe, Vinay (1988). Listing on Google Books.
  32. "Printed word still influential: says Tendulkar". DNA. 22 February 1998.
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