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- George_Fernandes abstract "George Fernandes (born 3 June 1930) is a former Indian trade unionist, politician, journalist, agriculturist, and member of Rajya Sabha from Bihar. He was a key member of the Janata Dal, and is the founder of the Samata Party. He has held several ministerial portfolios including communications, industry, railways, and defence, and was the only Christian minister in Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's cabinet.A native of Mangalore, Fernandes was sent to Bangalore in 1946 to be trained as a priest. He moved to Bombay in 1949, and joined the socialist trade union movement. As a fiery trade union leader, Fernandes organised many strikes and bandhs in Bombay in the 1950s and 1960s. The most notable agitation he organised was the 1974 Railway strike, when he was President of the All India Railwaymen's Federation. Fernandes went underground during the Emergency era (1975), as he took on Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for imposing a state of emergency, but was arrested in 1976, and tried in the infamous Baroda dynamite case.After Emergency was lifted, he won the Muzaffarpur seat in Bihar in 1977, and was appointed the Union Minister for Industries. During his tenure as union minister, he ordered American multinationals IBM and Coca Cola to leave the country, due to investment violations. He was the driving force behind the Konkan Railway project during his tenure as railway minister from 1989 to 1990. He was a defence minister in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government (1998–2004), when the Kargil War broke out between India and Pakistan, and India conducted its nuclear tests at Pokhran. Though a veteran socialist, Fernandes has been dogged by various controversies like the Barak Missile scandal, and Tehelka Scandal.".
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- George_Fernandes birthDate "1930-06-03".
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- George_Fernandes religion Catholic_Church.
- George_Fernandes residence Bangalore.
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- George_Fernandes constituencyMp Muzaffarpur_(Lok_Sabha_constituency).
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- George_Fernandes constituencyMp "Bihar".
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- George_Fernandes party Janata_Dal_(United).
- George_Fernandes placeOfBirth Mangalore.
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- George_Fernandes predecessor Jainarain_Prasad_Nishad.
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- George_Fernandes predecessor Nawal_Kishore_Sinha.
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- George_Fernandes primeminister Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee.
- George_Fernandes primeminister V._P._Singh.
- George_Fernandes religion Catholic_Church.
- George_Fernandes residence "Bangalore, Karnataka, India".
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- George_Fernandes spouse "Leila Kabir".
- George_Fernandes successor Janeshwar_Mishra.
- George_Fernandes successor Nitish_Kumar.
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- George_Fernandes successor "Jainarain Prasad Nishad".
- George_Fernandes successor "Jaswant Singh".
- George_Fernandes successor "Laliteshwar Prasad Shahi".
- George_Fernandes term "1977".
- George_Fernandes term "1989".
- George_Fernandes term "2004".
- George_Fernandes termEnd "1990-11-10".
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