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Ashwini Vaishnaw is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Since 28 June 2019, he is the member of the Parliament of India representing Odisha State in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house.

Vaishnaw has also supported the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019 on 5 December 2019 in Rajya Sabha. He believes the step of reducing or rather rationalizing the tax structure will increase the competitiveness of Indian industry and will also develop the capital base of the Indian industry. While supporting he furthered argued that the particular rationalization of tax structure will help the corporates to de-leverage and increase the retained earnings and reserves and surplus which will lay the foundation of the structural growth of the economy.

In 2012, he quit the corporate sector and set up Three Tee Auto Logistics Private Limited and Vee Gee Auto Components Private Limited, both automotive components manufacturing units in Gujarat.

In 2006, he became deputy chairman of Mormugao Port Trust, where he worked for next 2 years

He worked in Odisha till 2003, when he was appointed as deputy secretary in the office of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. After his brief stint in the PMO where he contributed in creating the public-private-partnership framework in infrastructure projects, Vaishnaw was appointed as Vajpayee's private secretary after the BJP-led NDA lost election in 2004.

In 1999, Odisha was hit by a super cyclone that killed thousands of people. Before the super cyclone hit the state, Vaishnaw logged into a US Navy website to track the path of the cyclone. He tracked the cyclone every hour and sent a report to the chief secretary at regular intervals, which became a major source of information for the Odisha government about the cyclone. This information helped government take necessary steps which saved many lives

Ashwini was born in Jodhpur in 1970. He graduated from Jai Narayan Vyas University, Rajasthan in 1992 with a gold medal in electronic and communications engineering course and then completed his M.Tech from IIT Kanpur, before cracking IAS in 1994 with an all-India rank of 27. In 2008, Vaishnaw left for US to do his MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.