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Ghulam Nabi Azad (born 7 March 1949, in Jammu and Kashmir, India) is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress and was the Minister of Health and Family Welfare Presently he serves as the Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha. He was the Parliamentary Affairs Minister of India in the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh until 27 October 2005, when he was appointed as the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. After delivering victories in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, after which Andhra was divided in two parts (Telangana and Coastal Andhra). He led the party successfully in the 2002 Assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir. Azad's forte is his organisational skills, having been the AICC general secretary for a record nine times and member of the powerful Congress Working Committee for 18 years. ==Controversies== In 2014, Keshav Desiraju, then-Union health and family welfare secretary, was suddenly ousted by the Health ministry. Desiraju was involved in a corruption investigation against Ketan Desai, former head of Medical Council of India, and his sudden ouster by the Health ministry created widespread outrage. According to some media reports, the ouster was carried out due to pressure from Azad. In February 2014, Ghulam Nabi Azad, claimed that Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has "no conclusive information" which links high prevalence of respiratory or other diseases caused by air pollution. His comments were in response to the issue of severe air pollution in Delhi. Azad's comments were panned by several environmentalists and health experts, including Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). Anumita Roychowdhury from CSE said that "() official denial of mounting evidence, both locally and globally, is holding up action against air pollution in the country and aggravating public health risk." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ghulam Nabi Azad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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