Pramod Mahajan |
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The suave, dapper Mahajan was always regarded as a smart politician, a person who had scaled the ladder of power in haste. So in 1999, when in the NDA ministry, he was given charge of the newly crafted portfolio of IT. It was thought to be a demotion of sorts. But Mahajan networked extensively with politicians, bureaucrats, academicians, businessmen and scientists to bring about not just a change in the IT policy, but in how the government looks at it. The result was the IT Act 2000. India becoming only the second country in the world to frame such laws ahead of even the US. His active backing of Mukesh Ambani's telecom venture courted controversies, but it led to a mobile revolution. He died in May 2006, shot by his brother. |
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