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Suresh Keswani has achieved
an unique honor among the Sindhis as he belongs to truly
rare class of Sindhis who went on become member of Rajya
Sabha [upper house of Parliament of India]. Suresh was
born as the son of Rukminidevi and Atalrai at Larkana
Sindh on 18th October 1942, His success story matched with
many of other Sindhi industrialist, Politicians and
leaders in the sense that though their early childhood
experiences the pains of partition of country and
migration to India. They witness the hard struggle of
parents for resettling and getting back to economic roots
and in a bit different socio economic environment.
Suresh Keswani is unique personality as unlike the Sindhi
youth masses of his time he went to get higher educational
qualification, He passed B.A. from Elphinstone College,
University of Bombay, completed his studies for degrees of
L. L. B. and M. A.[Economics] from Pune University. On
24th December 1970 he got married with Shakuntala. He
started his life as the professional manager and
management consultant but very shortly entered into strong
hold arena of Sindhi community as the Promoter and
Chairman of Keswani Synthetics Industries Limited situated
at Ankaleshwar in Gujarat State.
Suresh Keswani a person with very rich experiences of life
and active with several corporate, social and cultural
organisations is truly source of inspiration for modern
young sindhi generations. In the public service domain he
has worked as
Chairman [1980-81] of CIDCO [City & Industrial Development
corporation of Maharashtra]
MELTRON [1992-1995] Maharashtra Electronics Corporation
Ltd.
During the years 1994 to 1996 he served Air India and
Indian Airlines in the capacity of on board Director.
On the political fields Suresh Keswani is associated with
Congress[I] party and went on become member of Rajaya
Sabha from Maharashtra in April 1996 on party ticket.
during his long illustrated political career, this man of
vast knowledge in diversified fields has worked on various
committees as member some of these are
1982-1984 Advisory Committee for Industries, Government of
Maharashtra
1984-1987 Telephone Advisory Committee, Bombay Telephones
1988-1995 Sales Tax Advisory Committee, Government of
Maharashtra
1996-1998 Consultative Committee for the Ministry of
Defence and Standing Committee on Defence.
He has a very keen interest in Golf and other sports. He
is Director of Twin City Golf Club Limited, Mumbai,
President of Bombay Presidency Radio Club, Mumbai and
associated with many other clubs and social institutions
as member including Cricket Club of India & Rotary. He is
closely associated and much active in his capacity of Vice
President with Sindhi Academy New Delhi. Presently he is
living at Colba suburb of Mumbai. |