page_title: Faggan Singh Kulaste
section_title: Legislative
hierarchical_section_title: Faggan Singh Kulaste / Positions held / Legislative
caption_attribution_description: English: Oath Ceremony - 31st May 2019
context_page_description: Faggan Singh Kulaste is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
  He was sworn in as Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel on 30 May 2019 under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
  Kulaste is elected as a member of the 17th Lok Sabha.
  He represents the Mandla constituency of Madhya Pradesh.
  He was also Minister of State in Modi government.
  He has previously been a member of the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 16th and 17th Lok Sabha.
  He represented the Mandla Lok Sabha Parliamentary seat from 1996 to 2009.
  After losing in 2009 to Basori Singh Masram of Congress, he was elected to Rajya Sabha in 2012. He regained the seat in 2014 Lok Sabha, defeating his Congress rival Omkar Markam.
context_section_description: Union Minister of State, Ministry of Steel (2019 onwards)
  Union Minister of State, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (July 2016 - Sept 2017)
  Union Minister of State, Ministry of Tribal Affairs (Nov 1999 – May 2004)
  Union Minister of State, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (Oct - Nov 1999)
  Member of Legislative Assembly, Madhya Pradesh (1990–92)
caption: Kulaste during the oath taking ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan
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