Vinod Khanna

Vinod Khanna was born on 6th October 1946 in Peshawar (now in Pakistan), in a business family which migrated from Punjab to Delhi, to settle down in Mumbai in 1947. He did his schooling in St. Xaviers High School Mumbai and Delhi Public School, New Delhi and finally passed his Senior Cambridge from the Lord Bames High School, Devlali with Honours. At the age of nineteen, while he was reading Commerce at Sydenham College in Mumbai, in his Junior year, his film career was launched with the film 'Man Ka Meet'. His first film production 'Himalaya Putra' was released in April 1997. After a long and on-going career in the Hindi film industry, Mr. Khanna decided to enter public service. He joined the Bharatiya Janta Party in 1997.He was fielded as a candidate by the party for elections to the Twelfth Lok Sabha and defeated an incumbent who had won for five consecutive terms for Gurdaspur parliamentary constituency from Punjab state. During the Twelfth Lok Sabha, Mr. Khanna served on the Committee of Public Sector Undertaking and the Committee for Urban and Rural Development. Among other nominations.He was the Chairman of Film and Television Institute of India, one of the prestigious institutes in the world and chairman of the Food Corporation of India Regional Consultative Committee (Punjab Region). He was the Minister of State to Tourism and Culture, Government of India from July 1, 2002 to January 29, 2003.

Vinod Khanna's political career:

» 1998 Elected to 12th Lok Sabha from Gurdaspur (Punjab )
» 1998-99 Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
» 1999 Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (2nd term) from Gurdaspur (Punjab )
» 1999-2000 Member, Committee on Defence
» 1999-2000 and Member, Committee on Estimates
» 2000-2002 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Communications
» 2002 - Union Minister of State, Ministry of Tourism and Culture