Dattatraya Parashuram Karmarkar

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Dattatraya Parashuram Karmarkar ( Marathi दत्तात्रय परशुराम करमरकर Dattātraya Paraśurām Karamarakar ; born July 20, 1902 in Mantur , Mysore ; † June 20, 1991 in Dharwar , Karnataka ) was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress (INC), which was held between 1952 and 1962 Member of the Lok Sabha and then from 1962 to 1968 a member of the Rajya Sabha . He also held several ministerial offices between 1952 and 1962.

Life

Studies, lawyer and beginning of political engagement

After attending Karnatak College in Dharwar and Deccan College in Pune, Karmarkar completed a law degree at the Law College there , from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). In addition, he earned a Master of Arts (MA) at the University of Bombay and received the Bhagwanlal Gold Medal for his student achievements there in 1924 . After completing his studies, he started working as a lawyer . In addition, he became a member of the advisory board of Karnatak College in 1926 , of the Historical Research Society in 1938, of the anti-corruption committee of the Dharwar district in 1938 and of the research committee for Kannada , a language from the Dravidian language family that is mainly spoken in southern India , in 1939 .

Karmarkar, who was also a founding member of the Law College in Belgaum in 1939 , became chairman of the provincial PCC (Pradesh Congress Committee) of the National Congress in Karnataka in 1940 . In addition, he was active as a member of the Commission for Historical Writings from 1941 and was also a member of the Central Legislative Assembly of British India between 1945 and 1947 .

Member of Lok Sabha and Vice Minister for Trade and Industry

After India gained independence from the United Kingdom on August 15, 1947, Karmarkar was a member of numerous delegations at international conferences such as the International Trade Conference in Geneva from August to 1947, the following International Trade Conference in Havana (November 1947), in the economic field - and Employment Commission in New York City and the fourth session of the UN General Assembly in 1949.

In 1950 Karmarkar became Vice Minister for Trade and Industry and held this office until 1952. In this function he represented India at the conferences of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Lahore in 1951 and in Rangoon in 1952. After serving from 1951 to 1952 Member of the Provisional Parliament was elected, Karmarkar was elected in the first general election , which took place from October 25, 1951 to February 24, 1952, in the constituency of Dharwad North, then located in the state of Bombay , as a member of the first Lok Sabha . In this election he received 123,622 of the 389,830 votes and was able to clearly prevail against Basappa Nagappa Munavalli (58,259 votes) and Jagannath Anantrao Joshi (26,106 votes).

Minister and member of the Rajya Sabha

In 1952, Karmarkar was appointed trade minister by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in his second cabinet and held this office until April 1957. In the elections for the second Lok Sabha , which took place from February 24 to June 9, 1957, he was now in the state of Mysore Belonging constituency of Dharwar North was also re-elected to the Lok Sabha and belonged to it until April 3, 1962.

In a government reshuffle on April 15, 1957, Karmarkar succeeded Amrit Kaur as Minister of Health in the third Nehru government , while Morarji Desai became the new Minister of Trade and Industry. He held this ministerial office until April 2, 1962.

After leaving the Lok Sabha, Karmarkar became a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament, on April 3, 1962 , and was a member of it until April 2, 1968. During this time he was between 1964 and 1966 chairman of the so-called House Committee , to which the chairmen of the committees of the Rajya Sabha belong. After leaving the Rajya Sabha, he largely withdrew from political life.

His marriage to Shantabai in November 1936 resulted in two sons and three daughters.

Karmarkar wrote a biography of Bal Gangadhar Tilak in 1956 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parliamentary obituary
  2. ^ Data India. Press Institute of India, 1991, p. 508.
personal data
SURNAME Karmarkar, Dattatraya Parashuram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karmarkar, DP; करमरकर, दत्तात्रय परशुराम (Marathi)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician, lawyer and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Mantur, Mysore
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1991
Place of death Dharwar , Karnataka