Kamal Nath

Kamal Nath ( born November 18, 1946 in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh ) is an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress '. He's since May 24, 2004 Minister of Trade and Industry of the Indian Union, and since 1980, with an interruption from 1996 to 1999 a member of the Indian lower house ( Lok Sabha ) for Chhindwara.

Nath in 1968 was the Indian Congress Party in 1980 and was first elected to the Indian lower house. In 1991 he was Minister of State for Environment and Forests, following 1995-1996 Minister of State for the textile industry.

2002-2004 he was a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress party, the Congress Working Committee and its secretary general, before 2004 he was Minister of Trade and Industry. At the beginning of his term of office was investigating him, for his involvement in the pogroms against Sikhs in New Delhi. Connection in the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards The commission appointed evaluated the evidence as too weak. Many Sikh organizations accuse Nath, who was a friend of the son of the murdered Rajiv Gandhi, the ringleader in the destruction of a Sikh shrine in Delhi.

In the first two years of his tenure, he worked on the consolidation of the Group of Twenty, abroad but he was better known because of it represents India's policy in the WTO, together with the Chinese and the U.S. position in 2008 to the collapse of the Doha round led. Nath is married and has two sons.