Dinesh Trivedi

Dinesh Trivedi Biography

Dinesh Trivedi an Indian politician belongs to the All India Trinamool Congress party (TMC) and he is a sitting Member of Parliament in the Lower House representing Barrackpore, West Bengal. Incidentally he is the former Union Minister for Railways and the former Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare after Mamta Banrjee was elected chief minister of West Bengal. He is also the Chairman of the Indo-European Union Parliamentary Forum and few other Parliamentary Forums.

Dinesh Trivedi is the youngest child of the Gujarati couple,  who migrated to India from Karachi during India's partition, where all his other siblings were born. Incidentally his parents lived in a number of places before coming to New Delhi, where he was born. Later his father started working for the Hindustan Construction Company in Kolkata.

Dinesh Trivedi attended boarding schools in Himachal Pradesh, before graduating in commerce from St. Xavier's College, Calcutta. He took a loan of and completed his MBA from The University of Texas at Austin. He is also a trained pilot, as he always wanted to be a pilot from his childhood flying for the Indian Air Force. He is a trained sitar player and also enjoys classical music.

Dinesh Trivedi also applied to train as an actor at the Film Institute, Pune, but did not pursue it as he then believed it not to be a serious job for himself. Interestingly once he was attracted and was by seeing a picture of Swami Vivekananda in an advertisement by the Ramkrishna Mission, and decided to be a monk, but did not do so due to strong advice by his family and a Swami himself in Chicago.

After his MBA in 1974, he worked in Chicago for two years for the Detex Company, before returning to India, where he worked for a logistics provider Lee and Muirhead. In 1984, he quit the job to start his own air freight company based in Kolkata. Trivedi joined the Congress party in the 1980s, but switched over to the Janata Dal in 1990.

Later Trvedi joined Mamata Banrjee when she started the Trinamool Congress party and became its first general secretary. Dines Trivedi is married to Minal, who holds a PhD in genetics. They have a son Parthsarathi, who is pursuing aerospace engineering from MIT, US.

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Updated: April 18, 2015