Bhagwat Jha Azad

Bhagwat Jha Azad

Bhagwat Jha Azad ( Hindi भागवत झा आजाद ; born November 28, 1922 in Kasba , Godda District , Bengal Presidency , British India , today: Jharkhand ; † October 4, 2011 ) was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress (INC), who several times Member of Lok Sabha and Chief Minister of Bihar between 1988 and 1989 .

Life

Bhagwat Jha Azad, son of Jarab Lal Jha, began an undergraduate degree at Patna University after attending TNJ Collegiate School and TNJ College in Bhagalpur , which he completed with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He completed a subsequent postgraduate course with a Master of Arts (MA). He also completed another law degree at Patna University with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). He was involved in the independence movement, in which other later Chief Ministers of Bihar such as Bindeshwari Dubey , Satyendra Narayan Sinha , Chandra Shekhar Singh , Abdul Ghafoor and Kedar Pandey were active. After India gained independence from the United Kingdom on August 15, 1947, he began his political commitment to the Indian National Congress (INC) and in 1950 he became a member of the INC Committee in Bihar State, as well as Secretary of its Student and Economics departments and President of Bihar Provincial Students Congress , the student organization of the INC in Bihar. In 1952 he also became a member of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), the presidium of the INC.

Subsequently, Azad became a member of the Lok Sabha , the lower house of the Indian parliament , for the Indian National Congress (INC) in the first parliamentary elections in 1952 , and was a member of this initially until 1957. In 1959 he became secretary to Indira Gandhi , who was president of the INC at the time. In the parliamentary elections in the week of February 19-25, 1962 , he was re-elected for the INC as a member of the Lok Sabha, which he was elected to after his re-election in the parliamentary election from February 15-21, 1967 and the parliamentary election from February 1 to March 10, 1971 until March 1977 belonged. During this time he was in the Indira Gandhi I cabinet from March 1967 to February 1969 Minister of State in the Ministry of Education and then from February 1969 to March 1971 Minister of State in the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Rehabilitation. In addition, he acted in the fifth legislative period between 1976 and 1977 as chairman of the treasury committee of the Lok Sabha.

In the parliamentary elections on January 3 and 6, 1980 , Bhagwat Jha Azad was re-elected as a member of the Lok Sabha for the INC and now represented in the lower house of parliament after his re-election in the parliamentary elections on December 24, 27 and 28, 1984 until November 1989 the Lok Sabha constituency of Bhagalpur in Bihar . In the Indira Gandhi III cabinet , he served as Minister of State for Supply and Rehabilitation from October 19, 1980 to January 13, 1982, and then as Minister of State for Labor from January 14 to September 1, 1982. He was then Minister of State for Civil Aviation and Civil Supply between September 2, 1982 and February 14, 1983, and most recently from February 15, 1983 to December 31, 1984 Minister of State for Food and Civil Supply.

As the successor of his party friend Bindeshwari Dubey, Azad became Chief Minister of Bihar on February 14, 1988 and held this office until March 10, 1989, after which Satyendra Narayan Sinha, who also belongs to the INC, took over this post.

His marriage to Indira Jha Azad in May 1947 resulted in three sons.

Web links

• Entry on the Lok Sabha homepage
• Chief Ministers of Bihar

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bihar: Chief Ministers (Rulers)