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Bangaru Laxman (17 March 1939 – 1 March 2014) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He was president of the party from 2000 to 2001 and served as Minister of Railways in the Indian government from 1999 to 2000.
Shri Bangaru Laxman was a Member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council from 1985 until it was abolished in 1986. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat in April 1996 and in October 1999 was inducted into the Union Council of Ministers as Minister of State in the Ministry of Planning and Programme Implementation.
Apr 28, 2012 · A Special CBI Court here on Saturday sentenced the former BJP president, Bangaru Laxman, who has been convicted of corruption charges, to four-year rigorous imprisonment. It also imposed a fine...
A Delhi court Saturday awarded four years' rigorous imprisonment to the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) former president Bangaru Laxman for accepting a bribe from a fake arms dealer in 2001.
Mar 2, 2014 · At a time when the BJP is wooing the Dalit community by getting leaders like Ram Vilas Paswan, Ramdas Athawale and Udit Raj to join the NDA bandwagon, Bangaru Laxman — party’s lone Dalit president — died Saturday at the age of 74 after a prolonged illness in Hyderabad.
Mar 1, 2014 · Senior BJP leader Bangaru Laxman was born in a Madiga Dalit family in Andhra Pradesh on March 17, 1939. Laxman, who plunged into politics at a young age, was elected to Rajya Sabha in 1996. He was jailed during the Emergency in 1975.
Mar 1, 2014 · Former BJP chief and senior party leader Bangaru Laxman passed away on Saturday in Hyderbad after a period of prolonged illness. Laxman, who was to turn 75 on March 17, was confined to a wheelchair for the past 12 years.
Apr 26, 2012 · Eleven years after he was caught on camera allegedly taking bribe from fake arms dealers, a Delhi court on Friday pronounced former BJP President Bangaru Laxman guilty of accepting money for making recommendations to the Defence Ministry regarding contracts for supply of wares to the Army.
Mar 1, 2014 · Hyderabad: Bangaru Laxman, the first dalit leader to head the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who had to make an ignominious exit after being caught on camera taking bribe of ₹ 1 lakh to push a...
Mar 1, 2014 · Hyderabad: Former BJP president and the first Dalit to head the party, Bangaru Laxman, died in Hyderabad today. He was 74. Mr Laxman, who had been unwell for some time, died in a private...
