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Vinay Sahasrabuddhe

Dr. Vinay Sahasrabuddhe
President, Indian Council for Cultural Relations [1]
Assumed office
1 January 2018
Preceded byLokesh Chandra
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
5 July 2016 – 5 July 2022
Succeeded byAnil Sukhdevrao Bonde
Personal details
Born (1957-11-10) 10 November 1957 (age 66)
Nashik, Bombay State, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
SpouseNayana Sahasrabuddhe
Children1
EducationPh.D.
Alma materUniversity of Pune
Websitevinaysahasrabuddhe.in

Vinay Prabhakar Sahasrabuddhe is an Indian politician. He was a Member of the Parliament of India and represented the state of Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha from 2016-22. He has also served as National Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party from August 2014 – September 2020.[2] Dr. Sahasrabuddhe, since 2018 has been appointed as President of Indian Council for Cultural Relations.[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] As Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), he has also served as the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children and Youth & Sports.[7][8] He is regarded as one of the foremost intellectuals[9] from the BJP, the ruling party in the Central Government and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu Nationalist organization.

  1. ^ "Piyush Goyal, Chidambaram, Suresh Prabhu, Sharad Yadav elected to Rajya Sabha". The Economic Times. 3 June 2016.
  2. ^ Vinay, Sahasrabuddhe. "BJP's National Office Bearers". Archived from the original on 22 October 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  3. ^ "President appoints BJP leader Vinay Sahasrabuddhe as Indian Council of Cultural Relations President". The New Indian Express. 29 December 2017.
  4. ^ Sahasrabuddhe, Vinay (July 2009). Political Parties as Voluntary Social Service Organisations: Alternative Processes of Recruitment for Quality Participation in Political Parties in India (PDF). Learning Democracy by Doing: Alternative Practices in Citizenship Education and Participatory Democracy. Transformative Learning Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. p. 492. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 September 2022. Section 5: Learning Democracy in Social Movements and Political Parties.
  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. ^ Shukla, Srijan (30 December 2019). "How the Right is tackling Left's intellectual hegemony in Delhi — one think-tank at a time". ThePrint. Retrieved 30 January 2023.

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