Madhusudan Devram Mistry was born on 3 January 1945 and is an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress.
22 Facts About Madhusudan Mistry
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Madhusudan Mistry was born to Devaram Gopalram and Tulasiben in, Ahmedabad, in 1945.
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Madhusudan Mistry served as a member of the 13th and the 14th Lok Sabhas, representing the Sabarkantha constituency in Gujarat.
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Madhusudan Mistry founded an NGO called Developing Initiatives for Social and Human Action.
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In 1969, Madhusudan Mistry campaigned as a trade unionist for the Praja Socialist Party candidate Brahmkumar Bhatt.
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In 1977, Madhusudan Mistry went to Oxford on a scholarship for a development studies course.
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Madhusudan Mistry received funding from the Ford Foundation to have a secondment to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in USA to learn how this organization used budget analysis and advocacy to influence public expenditure.
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Madhusudan Mistry became a member of the Indian National Congress when RJP merged with it.
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Madhusudan Mistry was elected to the 13th Lok Sabha on a Congress ticket in 2001, in a bye-election from Sabarkantha.
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Madhusudan Mistry was re-elected to the 14th Lok Sabha from Sabarkantha in 2004, and served as member on several parliamentary committees.
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Madhusudan Mistry lost the 2009 Lok Sabha elections from the same constituency, to Mahendrasinh Chauhan of BJP.
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In 2011, Madhusudan Mistry was appointed as one of the General Secretaries of the All India Congress Committee.
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Madhusudan Mistry was appointed to the Congress Working Committee, and made in-charge of the party in Kerala, Karnataka and Lakshadweep.
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Madhusudan Mistry is a member of the Central Employment Guarantee Council under the MGNREGA program.
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Madhusudan Mistry acquired reputation as Rahul Gandhi's Man Friday, and as a man who works behind the scenes.
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However, several political analysts observed that the Congress victory in Karnataka was a result of the crisis in BJP's state unit and Madhusudan Mistry had spent little time in Kerala.
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Madhusudan Mistry was the chairman of the screening committee for selection of candidates for the 2013 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, which Congress lost.
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Subsequently, in response to a legal notice issued by Madhusudan Mistry, he issued a public apology for making "false and defamatory" allegations.
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Madhusudan Mistry was a member of Rahul Gandhi led election coordination committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
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Madhusudan Mistry is head one of the three sub-groups of election coordination committee.
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Madhusudan Mistry was the Indian National Congress candidate against BJP's prime-ministerial candidate Narendra Modi from Vadodara.
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Madhusudan Mistry lost to Modi by 5,70,128 votes - the highest margin in the 2014 elections, and the second highest ever in the history of Indian general elections.