Chaman Lal Gupta
Chaman Lal Gupta is a former minister of state in the Government of India. He was union minister of state of defence from 2002 to 2004. Earlier, he held a portfolio of food processing and civil aviation.
He was born in 1934 in Jammu and did his MSC from G. M. Science College Jammu and Allahabad University, Allahabad. He is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was a member of the 11th and 13th Lok Sabha from Udhampur.Positions held
- 1972–77 Member, Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly
- 1987–90 Member, Public Accounts Committee; Public Undertakings Committee;
- 1973–80 General-Secretary, Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Jammu and Kashmir
- 1980–89 General-Secretary, Bharatiya Janata Party, Jammu and Kashmir
- 1990–95 President, B.J.P., Jammu and Kashmir
- 1996 Elected to 11th Lok Sabha
- 1996–97 Member, Committee on Transport and Tourism
- 1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha
- 1998–99 Member, Joint Committee on the functioning of Wakf Board
- 1999 Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha
- 1999–2001 Union Minister of State, Ministry of Civil Aviation
- 2001–2002 Union Minister of State , Ministry of Food
- 1 July 2002 – 2004 Union Minister of State, Ministry of Defence
- 2008-2014 Member, Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly Jammu West
Books published
- Sansad mein Jammu Kashmir;
- Sansad mein dedh varsh;
- Mere Prayaas
