Sachin Rajesh Pilot is an Indian politician and one of the important leaders of the Indian National Congress Party. Following in his father’s footsteps, Pilot served as a lieutenant in the Indian Army and was an important politician. Apart from serving as a member of the 14th and 15th Lok Sabha, he also headed the Ministry of Corporate Affairs in the Manmohan Singh government.
Biography/Wikipedia, Caste
Sachin Pilot was born on September 7, 1977 in a Gujjar family in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India. His father, Airman Rajesh, was an Indian Air Force pilot and a well-known politician of the Indian National Congress Party. His mother Rama Pilot is also a politician. Member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly and the Indian Parliament. Sachin received his primary education from Air Force Barbarati School, New Delhi. For higher education, he attended St. Stephens College, University of Delhi and received his Bachelor of Arts degree. He also studied at IMT Ghaziabad for a diploma in marketing. In order to study for an MBA, he was admitted to the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
appearance
He is 5 feet 10 inches tall, or 178 centimeters. His eye and hair color are black.
Sachin Pilot with former Australian Prime Minister Dame Julia Gillard
family
He is the child of 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 sibling, a sister, Sarika Pilot.
Sachin Pilot and his sister Sarika Pilot
Sarika Pilot and husband Vishal Choudhary
On January 15, 2004, Sachin married Sara Abdullah (daughter of Farooq Abdullah; former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir).
Sachin Pilot and his wife Sara Pilot
The couple has two sons, Aaran and Vehaan.
Sachin Pilot and his sons
Sachin and Sara later divorced. The divorce was officially confirmed in an affidavit filed by Sachin during the 2023 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly elections, in which he mentioned his marital status as “divorced”.
Profession
In the 2004 general election, he was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time from Dausa constituency in Rajasthan. He also became a member of the Standing Committee of the Ministry of Interior and the Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Civil Aviation. In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, he was elected to the Assembly from Ajmer constituency. In October 2012, he became the federal cabinet minister in charge of corporate affairs in the Manmohan Singh government.
Sachin Pilot with former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
On 6 September 2012, he became the first Minister to be appointed as a Territorial Army Officer. Therefore, he was known as Pilot Lieutenant for his service as a Territorial Army officer.
Sachin Pilot as Army officer
In 2014, he was appointed Chairman of the Rajasthan Congress Committee. Sachin lost the 2014 Lok Sabha elections to Sanwarlal Jat of the Bharatiya Janata Party by a margin of 1,71,983 votes. Amid rising tensions between Pilot and Ashok Gehlot, Pilot claimed that 30 MLAs supported him and the Gehlot government was in the minority. After this statement, speculations started rife about him joining the BJP. On July 14, 2020, he was sacked from all the posts he held in Rajasthan. He later shared on Twitter that “only truth will prevail.”
सत्य को परेशरन कियर।
— Sachin Pilot (@SachinPilot) July 14, 2020
Sachin contested the 2023 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly elections from Tonk constituency and won; he defeated the BJP candidate Ajit Singh Mehta by a margin of 29,475 votes.
After Sachin Pilot wins the 2023 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly elections
Assets/Net Worth
As in 2014, he has around Rs 64 lakh in banks and over Rs 5 lakh in bonds, debentures and shares in companies. He owns jewelery worth over Rs 13 lakh. His net worth is approximately Rs 5 Crore.
fact
- He served in the Delhi bureau of the BBC and later with the American multinational General Motors for two years.
- On June 11, 2000, his father, Rajesh Pilot, died in a car accident.
- He co-authored “Rajesh Pilot: In Spirit Forever” with his sister Sarika Pilot, published in 2000.
- After becoming an officer in the Territorial Army, Sachin Pilot said, “It has always been my aspiration to join the Army as I wanted to connect with the armed forces like my father and grandfather. I am honored to be a part of this family member.”
- He led the party in the 2018 parliamentary elections.
- In August 2023, Sachin Pilot refuted the allegations of BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya, who claimed that Pilot’s father had bombed Mizoram on March 5, 1966 as an Air Force pilot; Malviya via X ‘s post made this statement and wrote:
On March 5, 1966, Indian Air Force planes piloted by Rajesh Pilot and Suresh Kalmadi bombed Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram state. Both later became members of parliament and government ministers. It is clear that Indira Gandhi respected and had a place in politics as a reward for those who carried out air raids on her own people in the Northeast. “
In response, Sachin later issued a certificate, which his father had received from President VV Giri on February 10, 1970, when he was commissioned as a pilot in the Indian Air Force. He pointed out inaccuracies in Malviya’s post, stressing that his father did carry out bombing campaigns, but that was in East Pakistan during the 1971 Indo-Pak war, not Mizoram.
.@amitmalviya – You have wrong dates, wrong facts… Yes, as an Indian Air Force pilot, my late father did drop the bombs. But this happened in erstwhile East Pakistan during the 1971 Indo-Pak war, not in Mizoram on March 5, 1966, as you say. He was appointed… https://t.co/JfexDbczfk pic.twitter.com/Lpe1GL1NLB
— Sachin Pilot (@SachinPilot) August 15, 2023
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