Indian CEOs Who Entered Politics

By siliconindia   |   Friday, 11 November 2011, 01:18 IST   |    2 Comments
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3. Rajkumar Dhoot
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Rajkumar Dhoot is Shiv Sena-nominated member of the Rajya Sabha representing Maharashtra. He is the CEO of Datacom Solutions. The 54 year old is the brother of Venugopal Dhoot, chairman of Videocon Industries. Datacom Solutions, is a subsidiary of consumer durables major Videocon Industries, which received telecom licences to begin pan-India operations. He promotes education especially among girls by running a Girls High School at Gangapur for 1100 girls of First to Tenth Standard and running a multi-specialty charitable hospital, namely 'Nandlal Dhoot Charitable Hospital' at Aurangabad with an investment of 100 crores, providing only second cobalt 60 facilities for cancer and Cardiac Care Centre and allied treatment and took up construction of roads in the region.