Om Birla is an Indian politician and the 17th Speaker of the Lok Sabha. He served as the Member of Parliament for Kota South constituency.
Wiki/Biography
Om Birla was born on 23 November 1962 in Kota, Rajasthan, India (Age as of 2023: 61). He has been actively involved in politics since childhood. As a child, he served as a volunteer for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu nationalist organization. He received his education from the government. College of Commerce, Kota and Mahesh Dayanand Saraswati University, Ajmer, Rajasthan. He holds a master’s degree in business.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′8″
Eye color: black
Hair Color: Salt and Pepper
family and caste
Om Birla comes from a Vaishya (Baniya) family.
Parents and siblings
He was born to Shrikrishna Birla and Shakuntala Devi. There is no information about his siblings.
Om Birla and his father
wife and children
He is married to Dr. Amita Birla and has two daughters. His elder daughter Akansha is a chartered accountant and younger daughter Anjali cleared the civil service exam in 2019 in her first attempt.
Om Birla and his daughter Anjali
Om Birla and family
Profession
In 1987, he became the district president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJYM). In 1991, he was appointed president of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In 1997, he served as the National Vice Chairman of Beijing Fitness Movement. In 2003, he was first elected to the Rajasthan Assembly from the South Kota constituency. He also served as Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in the Government of Rajasthan for four years from 2004 to 2008.
In 2008, he was re-elected from the same constituency. In 2013, he was elected as a member of Parliament for the third time. In 2014, he ran for the Lok Sabha election and won the election in the Kota South constituency, defeating Ijyaraj Singh, an Indian National Congress member from the Kota royal family. During his first term as an MP, he served on the Standing Committee on Energy and on the Petitions Committee and Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. In 2019, he was re-elected as a member of the People’s House and became the 17th Speaker of the People’s House.
He contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Kota constituency in Rajasthan and won for the third time. On June 26, 2024, he was elected as the Speaker of the 18th People’s House of Representatives.
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Salary/Net Worth
As Speaker of the Lok Sabha, he received Rs. 1,25,000/month + other allowances. As of 2019, his net worth is approximately Rs. 483 Crores.
fact
- Birla served as vice-president of the National Co-operative Consumers Federation Ltd.
- Birla served as the Chairman of CONFED, Jaipur, from June 1992 to 1995.
- In addition to being a politician, he is also known for his humanitarian work. He initiated several welfare schemes, including ‘Paridhan’ launched in 2012 to distribute clothes and books to the weaker sections of society. He also started several blood donation programs. Apart from this, he also started a free meal program and a drug bank to provide free medicines to the poor.
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Source: HIS Education