Prem Chand Gupta | |
Birth Date: | 3 February 1950 |
Birth Place: | Bhiwani, Punjab, India (now in Haryana, India) |
Office: | Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha |
Term Start: | 10 April 2020 |
Constituency: | Bihar |
Constituency2: | Jharkhand |
Term Start2: | 10 April 2014 |
Term End2: | 9 April 2020 |
Successor2: | Shibu Soren |
Office3: | Minister of Corporate Affairs |
Primeminister3: | Manmohan Singh |
Term Start3: | 30 May 2004 |
Term End3: | 30 November 2008 |
Successor3: | H. R. Bhardwaj |
Predecessor3: | Inder Kumar Gujral |
Prem Chand Gupta (born 3 February 1950) is an Indian politician and a former cabinet minister in Ministry of Corporate Affairs of India.[1] He is a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian Parliament from Bihar.[2] Earlier, he was elected from Jharkhand to the Rajya Sabha.[3] He had some involvement in coal scam.[4] He was previously an NRI based in Hong Kong who promoted a factory manufacturing watches in India (Indo Swiss Time) and entered politics later. He currently lives in South Extension, New Delhi.