Devakanta Barua

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Devakanta Barua (also Dev Kant Baruah ; Assamese : দেৱকান্ত বৰুৱা , Devakānta Baruvā ; * February 22, 1914 in Dibrugarh , Assam ; † January 28, 1996 in Delhi ) was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress (INC), whose president he was from 1975 until 1977 was.

biography

After attending school in Guwahati and Nowgong , he studied at Banaras Hindu University and worked in the independence movement after graduating . Because of this activity he was arrested several times in 1940, 1941 and 1942 and then worked as an editor for the newspapers Dainik Assamiya and Natun Assamiya , which he helped shape public opinion in Assam at that time. Barua, an admirer of the works of William Wordsworth , DH Lawrence and Rabindranath Thakur , was also active as a poet and published, among other things, the book Sagar Dekhisa . His younger brother was the renowned author Navakanta Barua .

His political career began in 1949 with his election as a member of the Constituent Assembly, of which he was a member until 1951. Subsequently, he was a member of the Provisional Parliament before he was elected Member of the Lower House ( Lok Sabha ) in 1952 and was a member of this in the first legislative period until 1957.

He then became a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly in 1957 and was a representative for the Nowgong constituency until his resignation in 1966. After he was Speaker of Parliament from June 1957 to September 1959, he was Minister for Education and Cooperation in the government of Chief Minister Bimali Prasad Chaliha from 1962 to 1966 . In 1967 he was re-elected a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly.

After serving as chairman of the company Oil India Limited , he became governor of the state of Bihar on February 1, 1971 and held this office for two years until February 1973. In 1973 he was elected to the House of Lords ( Rajya Sabha ) and was a member of this until 1977. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed Minister for Petroleum and Chemicals in 1973 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in her cabinet and held this ministerial office until 1974.

In 1975 he took over the position of President of the Indian National Congress from Shankar Dayal Sharma and held this position during the emergency until 1977. He was a loyal supporter of Indira Gandhi and extolled her with the words "Indira is India, India is Indira".

After the devastating defeat of the Congress Party against the Janata Party in the 1977 Lok Sabha elections, which led to the appointment of Morarji Desai as Prime Minister, he lost the office of President of the INC in 1977. His successor as party president was then Indira Gandhi, who succeeded on January 14, 1980, the renewed election as prime minister.

Between 1977 and 1979 he was again a member of the Lok Sabha.

Talk

After his election as party president at the INC congress in Chandigarh , he gave an inaugural address in 1975, saying:

"After the last quarter of a centuries-long struggle for India's independence and all of our conflicts with the British authorities that I remember and those of many others, there lies the desire for India's revival. We felt that we were through actions and self-imposed suffering and Sacrifice, by voluntarily encountering risks and dangers, by refusing to acknowledge what we considered evil and wrong, would recharge the battery of India's mind and wake it from a long slumber. Although we are in an ongoing conflict with the British government in When India came, our eyes were always directed towards our people. A political advantage has its value only insofar as it helped this fundamental purpose on our part. Because of this need for regulation, we acted as non-politicians, moved only in the vicinity of politics, because if we had done it differently, the foreign and Indian critics would have r expressed their amazement at the stupidity and lack of insight on our way. In the future, historians will judge whether we were stupid or not. We reached up and looked far. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nabakanta Baruah. Retrieved November 11, 2017 .
  2. ^ Assam Legislative Assembly - MLA 1957-62
  3. ↑ List of Speakers since 1937 (Assam Legislative Assembly)
personal data
SURNAME Barua, Devakanta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baruah, Dev Kant; Baruah, Devakanta; Borooah, Dev Kanta; বৰুৱা, দেৱকান্ত (Assamese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Dibrugarh , Assam
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1996
Place of death Delhi