Chaturanan Mishra

Chaturanan Mishra (born April 7, 1925 in Nahar , Madhubani district , Bihar ; † July 2, 2011 in Patna , Bihar) was an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (CPI) and union function .

Life

Mishra joined the "Quit India" movement in 1942 and fought for it to end British colonial rule in British India . After the sovereignty of India from the UK on 15 August 1947, he became a leading official in the union of mine workers in Giridih , one from the mining and trading of mica significant city in the state of Jharkhand in the region bordering Bihar.

In addition, he became involved in the CPI at an early stage and, because of his reputation as a critic of the social, economic and political conditions, became deputy editor-in-chief of the party newspaper of the CPI. In 1951 he was first a member of the Executive Committee of the CPI of Bihar and in 1964 a member of the Secretariat of the CPI of the state. In 1964 he was also elected for the first time as a member of the National Council of the CPI, of which he was a member until 2002. In 1964, Mishra was also chairman of the fourth world conference of miners in Moscow .

In 1969 he was also elected a member of the Parliament of Bihar State, where he represented the Giridih constituency until 1980 . Mishra, who was also president of the umbrella organization of the Indian trade union ( All India Trade Union Congress ) between 1983 and 1989 , was elected in 1984 as a representative of Bihar to the Rajya Sabha , the upper house of the Indian parliament, and was a member of this until 1996.

After he was elected to the lower house , the Lok Sabha , in 1996 as a representative of the Madhubani constituency , he was appointed Union Minister for Agriculture in June 1996 by Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda, appointed by Janata Dal . Mishra was next to Indrajit Gupta , who became Minister of the Interior in 1996, the first communist minister in a Union government. He retained the post of Minister of Agriculture after the inauguration of Indian Kumar Gujral in April 1997 and was also appointed Union Minister for Food, Civil Goods, Consumer Protection and Public Distribution in his cabinet in May 1997, which he held until the end of Gujral's term of office in March 1998.

Mishra, who also campaigned for the introduction of a social security pension for the needy, was recognized by the Chief Minister of Bihar , Nitish Kumar , as a great peace fighter and a loss to the state and India after his death.

Web links

• THE TIMES OF INDIA: CPI leader Chaturanan Mishra passes away (July 3, 2011)