Kamal Nath

Kamal Nath
Kamal Nath
	Nath in 2008
Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
	In office; 17 December 2018 – 23 March 2020
Governor	Anandiben Patel; Lalji Tandon
Preceded by	Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Succeeded by	Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Leader of Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	In office; 17 July 2020 – 28 April 2022
Preceded by	Gopal Bhargava
Succeeded by	Govind Singh
Member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 10 June 2019
Preceded by	Deepak Saxena
Constituency	Chhindwara
Prime Minister
Ministerial offices
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
	In office; 28 October 2012 – 26 May 2014
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Deputy	Rajeev Shukla
Preceded by	Pawan Kumar Bansal
Succeeded by	Venkaiah Naidu
Minister of Urban Development
	In office; 19 January 2011 – 26 May 2014
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Deputy	Saugata Roy; Deepa Dasmunsi
Preceded by	Jaipal Reddy
Succeeded by	Venkaiah Naidu
Minister of Road Transport and Highways
	In office; 28 May 2009 – 19 January 2011
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Deputy	Mahadeo Singh Khandela; R. P. N. Singh
Preceded by	T. R. Baalu
Succeeded by	C. P. Joshi
Minister of Commerce and Industry
	In office; 23 May 2004 – 22 May 2009
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Deputy	S. S. Palanimanickam; E. V. K. S. Elangovan
Preceded by	Arun Jaitley
Succeeded by	Anand Sharma
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Textiles
	In office; 15 September 1995 – 20 February 1996
Prime Minister	P. V. Narasimha Rao
Preceded by	Gaddam Venkatswamy
Succeeded by	Gaddam Venkatswamy
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
	In office; 21 June 1991 – 15 September 1995
Prime Minister	P. V. Narasimha Rao
Preceded by	Maneka Gandhi
Succeeded by	Rajesh Pilot
Preceded by
Parliamentary offices
Protem Speaker of the Lok Sabha
	In office; 11 June 2014 – 14 June 2014
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha; for Chhindwara
	In office; 1998 – 2018
Preceded by	Sunder Lal Patwa
Succeeded by	Nakul Nath
	In office; 1980 – 1996
Preceded by	Gargi Shankar Mishra
Succeeded by	Alka Nath
Personal details
Born	18 November 1946; Cawnpore, United Provinces, British India
Political party	Indian National Congress
Spouse	Alka Nath
Children	2, including Nakul Nath
Residence(s)	Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
Alma mater	St. Xavier's College, Kolkata (B.Com)
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Kamal Nath (born 18 November 1946; Hindi pronunciation: [kəməl n̪aːt̪ʰ]) is an Indian politician who served as the 18th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh for approximately 15 months and resigned after a political crisis. He was the Leader of the Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly from March 2020 to April 2022.

As a leader of the Indian National Congress he has served as the Minister of Urban Development. He is one of the longest serving and most senior members of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament. He was appointed the Pro Tem Speaker of the 16th Lok Sabha. He has been elected nine times from the Chhindwara Lok Sabha constituency of Madhya Pradesh. Nath was elected president of the Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee in May 2018, leading the party in the November–December 2018 assembly election. He assumed the office of Chief Minister on 17 December 2018 and resigned on 20 March 2020 due to lack of majority in government.