Pt. Ishwar Dayal Swami पण्डित ईश्वर दयाल स्वामी | |
Office: | Minister of State for Home Affairs |
Minister: | L. K. Advani |
Term Start: | 13 October 1999 |
Term End: | 22 May 2004 |
Successor: | Sriprakash Jaiswal |
Office1: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
Term Start1: | 1999 |
Term End1: | 2004 |
Constituency1: | Karnal |
Predecessor1: | Bhajan Lal |
Successor1: | Arvind Kumar Sharma |
Term Start2: | 1996 |
Term End2: | 1998 |
Predecessor2: | Chiranji Lal Sharma |
Successor2: | Bhajan Lal |
Constituency2: | Karnal |
Birth Date: | 11 August 1929 |
Birth Place: | Vill. Babyal, Ambala district, Haryana |
Death Place: | Faridabad (Haryana) |
Education: | M.A., LL.B., Master's Degree (Public Admn.)Educated at Panjab University, Chandigarh, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi |
Party: | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Spouse: | Padma Swami (1955-2019) |
Children: | Two Sons, Three Daughters |
Profession: | Civil Service, Advocate, Political and Social Worker, Farmer |
Pandit Ishwar Dayal Swami (11 August 1929 – 15 December 2019)[1] was an Indian politician and former IAS officer, who served as Union Minister of State for Home Affairs in the Third Vajpayee Ministry. He also took part in the freedom movement as student leader in 1946–47. He was Scholarship holder from class 4th to 10th which was forfeited by the then British Government for having led a procession of students against the famous Red Fort trials of Shahnawaz, Dhillon and Sehgal of INA. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Karnal in Haryana. He died on 15 December 2019 at Metro Hospital, Faridabad.[2]