page_title: Rahul Bajaj
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Rahul Bajaj / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Rahul Bajaj, Chairman, Bajaj Auto, India, at the 2016 Horasis India Meeting
context_page_description: Rahul Bajaj is an Indian billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the chairman of the Indian conglomerate Bajaj Group and a member of parliament. Bajaj comes from the business house started by Jamnalal Bajaj. He was awarded the third-highest civilian award Padma Bhushan in 2001.
  In a recent interview for the Creating Emerging Markets project at the Harvard Business School, Bajaj provides a devastating critique of Indian industrial policies before the liberalisation in the 1990s. In 2008, he split Bajaj Auto into three units - Bajaj Auto, finance company Bajaj Finserv and a holding company. His sons are now managing the day to day affairs of the company.
context_section_description: He took over the Bajaj Group in 1965. In 2005, Rahul Bajaj stepped down from his role as chairman, his son Rajiv became the Group's managing director.  Bajaj got elected to the Rajya Sabha, India's Upper House of Parliament in the 2006-2010 period. On the Forbes 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked No. 722 with a net worth of US$2.4 billion.
caption: Bajaj speaking at the 2016 Horasis Global Meeting.
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