Sachin Rajesh Pilot is an Indian politician and one of the important leaders of the Indian National Congress. Following in his father’s footsteps, Pilot has been a lieutenant in the Indian Army and has also been an important politician. Apart from being an MP in the 14th and 15th Lok Sabha, he has also held the charge of Corporate Affairs Ministry in the Manmohan Singh government.
Biography/Wiki, Caste
Sachin Pilot was born on 7 September 1977 in a Gujjar family in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India. His father, Rajesh Pilot, was a pilot in the Indian Air Force and a well-known politician from the Indian National Congress. His mother, Rama Pilot, was also a politician; Member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly and Indian Parliament. Sachin received his primary education from Air Force Bal Bharti School, New Delhi. For his higher education, he joined St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University and completed his Bachelor of Arts. He also attended IMT Ghaziabad to obtain a Diploma in Marketing. To pursue an MBA, he attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, United States.
Physical Appearance
He is 5 feet 10 inches or 178 cm tall. His eye and hair color is black.
Sachin Pilot with former Australian Prime Minister Mrs. Julia Gillard
Family
He was born to Rajesh Pilot (also known as Rajeshwar Prasad) and Rama Pilot.
Rajesh Pilot, father of Sachin Pilot
Rama Pilot, mother of Sachin Pilot
He has only one sister, Sarika Pilot.
Sachin Pilot with his sister Sarika Pilot
Sarika Pilot with her husband Vishal Chaudhary
On 15 January 2004, Sachin married Sarah Abdullah (daughter of Farooq Abdullah; former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir).
Sachin Pilot with his wife Sara Pilot
The couple has two sons, Aaraan and Vehaan.
Sachin Pilot with his sons
Sachin and Sara later got divorced; The divorce was officially confirmed through an affidavit filed by Sachin during the 2023 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election in which he stated his marital status as ‘Divorced’.
livelihood
He was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time from the Dausa constituency of Rajasthan in the 2004 general election. And became a member of the Standing Committee in the Ministry of Home Affairs and a member of the Consultative Committee in the Ministry of Civil Aviation. In the 2009 Lok Sabha election, he was elected to Parliament from Ajmer constituency. In October 2012, he became a Union Cabinet Minister in the government of Manmohan Singh and held the portfolio of Corporate Affairs.
Sachin Pilot with former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
On 6 September 2012, he was the first minister to be appointed as an officer in the Territorial Army. Being an officer in the Territorial Army, he is known as Lieutenant Pilot.
Sachin Pilot as an army officer
In 2014, he was appointed President of Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Sachin was defeated by BJP’s Sanwarlal Jat by a margin of 1,71,983 votes. Amidst the increasing tension between Pilot and Ashok Gehlot, Pilot claimed that 30 MLAs are supporting him and the Gehlot government is in minority. After this statement, speculations about his joining BJP intensified. On 14 July 2020, he was dismissed from all his offices in Rajasthan. Later, he shared on Twitter that “truth always prevails.”
Truth can be disliked but not defeated.
– Sachin Pilot (@SachinPilot) 14 July 2020
Sachin contested and won the 2023 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election from Tonk constituency; He defeated BJP candidate Ajit Singh Mehta by a margin of 29,475 votes.
Sachin Pilot after winning 2023 Rajasthan Assembly elections
Assets/Net Worth
As of 2014, he has about ₹64 lakh deposited in banks, with over ₹5 lakh in the form of bonds, debentures and shares in companies. She has jewelery worth more than Rs 13 lakh. His net worth is around ₹5 crore.
fact
- He worked for two years in the Delhi Bureau of the British Broadcasting Corporation and later in General Motors, an American multinational company.
- On 11 June 2000, his father Rajesh Pilot died in a car accident.
- He co-authored Rajesh Pilot: In Spirit Forever with his sister Sarika Pilot, which was published in 2000.
- Having been an officer in the Territorial Army, Sachin Pilot said, “It was my desire to join the Army for a very long time as I wanted to maintain my links with the armed forces like my father and grandfather. I am honored to be a part of this family.”
- He was leading the party in the 2018 assembly elections.
- In August 2023, Sachin Pilot refuted the claims of BJP’s IT cell chief Amit Malviya, who had alleged that Pilot’s father had carried out the Mizoram bombing on 5 March 1966 as an Air Force pilot; Malviya made this claim through a post on X and wrote,
Rajesh Pilot and Suresh Kalmadi were flying the Indian Air Force aircraft that bombed Mizoram’s capital Aizawl on March 5, 1966. Later, both became MPs and ministers in the government on Congress tickets. It is clear that Indira Gandhi rewarded those who carried out air strikes on her own people in the North East with respect and a place in politics.
In response, Sachin later posted a certificate that his father had received from President VV Giri when he was commissioned as a pilot officer in the Indian Air Force on 10 February 1970. He pointed out inaccuracies in Malviya’s post, emphasizing that his father had carried out the bombing campaign. , but during the Indo-Pak war of 1971 it was in erstwhile East Pakistan, not Mizoram.
,@amitmalviya – You have wrong dates, wrong facts… Yes, as an Indian Air Force pilot, my late father had dropped bombs. But that was on erstwhile East Pakistan during the Indo-Pak war of 1971, and not on Mizoram on March 5, 1966, as you claim. He was appointed to… https://t.co/JfexDbczfk. pic.twitter.com/Lpe1GL1NLB
– Sachin Pilot (@SachinPilot) 15 August 2023
Categories: Biography
Source: vcmp.edu.vn