Ashoke Kumar Sen.
Ashoke Kumar Sen ( Marathi : अशोक कुमार सेन ; born October 10, 1913 in Faridpur , Bengal , British India ; † September 21, 1996 ) was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress (INC), who was a minister in various Union governments.
Life
Lawyer and university professor
Ashoke Kumar Sen came from a Hindu Baidya family, which also included the scholar Kshitimohan Sen , his brother and long-time head of the Chief Election Commissioner of India Sukumar Sen , but also in later generations of economists and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen , whose wife and writer Nabanita Dev Sen and their daughters, the journalist Antara Dev Sen and the actress and children's book author Nandana Sen belong. He was the son of District Judge Akshay Kumar Sen and, after attending the Presidency College in Calcutta, began an undergraduate degree in law at the University of Calcutta , which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and a Master of Arts (MA). A post-graduate studies of economics at the London School of Economics he finished (LSE) with a Master of Science (M.Sc. Economics) and also acquired a lawyer admitted as barrister to the Bar ( Inns of Court ) of Gray's Inn .
After his return to British India , Ashoke Kumar Sen was initially professor of economic and commercial law at Law City College, Calcutta, between 1941 and 1943 and then began working as a lawyer at the Calcutta High Court , the upper court in Calcutta. After India's independence from the United Kingdom on August 15, 1947, he worked from 1950 to 1,956 as legal advisor to the government of the state of West Bengal . During this time he was a member of the Indian delegation to the tenth session of the United Nations General Assembly in 1955 .
Lok Sabha member, Minister of State and Minister
In the election between February 24 and March 15, 1957 , Sen was elected for the first time for the Indian National Congress (INC) as a member of the Lok Sabha , the lower house of the Indian Parliament (Bhāratīya saṃsa) , and belonged to this after his re-election in the election from February 19 to 25, 1962 and election from February 15 to 21, 1967, initially until 1970. After his first election he became Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in the third cabinet on April 17, 1957, Minister of State in the Ministry of Justice and held this office from April 2, 1962 to June 9, 1963 in the fourth Nehru cabinet . In this function he was head of the Indian delegations at the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea in Geneva in 1958 and 1959 and head of the Indian delegations at the UN human rights conferences in Tokyo (1960) and New Delhi (1962). He then acted between September 1, 1963 and May 13, 1964 as Minister of State for Post and Telegraphy in the fourth Nehru cabinet.
On June 9, 1964, Ashoke Kumar Sen took over in the cabinet of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, first as Minister of Justice and Communications and on June 15, 1964 as Minister of Justice and Social Security, while Satya Narayan Sinha took over on June 15, 1964 took over his own position as communications minister. He held the function of Minister for Justice and Social Security until January 23, 1966.
Re-elections, later ministerial offices and Rajya Sabha member
In the election from March 1 to 10, 1971 , Sen was again elected a member of the Lok Sabha and was now a member of the INC until the March 16 to 20, 1977 election . During this time he was active between 1974 and 1976 for two one-year terms as President of the Supreme Court Bar Association and also in 1975 as President of the Football Association (Indian Football Association) .
Ashoke Kumar Sen was re- elected a member of the Lok Sabha in the election on January 3 and 6, 1980 and represented it after his re- election on December 24, 27 and 28, 1984 until the election on December 22 and November 26, 1989 the constituency of Calcutta North-West in the state of West Bengal . During his membership in parliament he was chairman of the committee on minor legislation between 1980 and 1982. On December 31, 1984, he succeeded Jagannath Kaushal in the cabinet of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi as Minister of Law and Justice and held this office until March 27, 1987, after which Fr. Shiv Shankar succeeded him. At the same time he was again President of the Supreme Court Bar Association from 1984 to 1985 .
On April 3, 1990, Sen finally became a member of the Rajya Sabha , the upper house of parliament, for the Samajwadi Janata Party (SJD) and represented the interests of the state of West Bengal in this until April 2, 1996. From November 21, 1990 to June 21, 1991, he held the post of Minister for Steel and Mining in the cabinet of Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar .
On February 2, 1943, he married Shrimati Anjana Das, the only daughter of Sudhi Ranjan Das , who served as Chief Justice of India as President of the Supreme Court of India from 1956 to 1959 . This marriage resulted in two sons and two daughters.
Web links
- Entry on the Lok Sabha homepage
- Entry on the homepage of the Rajya Sabha
Individual evidence
- ↑ COUNCIL OF MINISTERS SHASTRI 9.6.1964 - 24.1.1966
- ↑ COUNCIL OF MINISTERS R.GANDHI 2 December 31, 1984 - December 1, 1989
- ↑ COUNCIL OF MINISTERS SHEKHAR November 21, 1990 - June 20, 1991
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sen, Ashoke Kumar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | अशोक कुमार सेन (Telugu) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Faridpur , Bengal , British India |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 1996 |