Hirubhai M. Patel

Hirubhai Muljibhai Patel ( Marathi एच.एम. पटेल , born August 27, 1904 in Bombay , British India , † November 30, 1993 ) was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress (INC) and most recently of the Janata Party , a member of the Lok Sabha and between 1977 and 1979 first finance minister and then 1979 interior minister in Desai's cabinet .

Life

Degree and Government Official

Patel, son of Muljibhai Patel, graduated after attending St. Xavier's High School in Bombay first one undergraduate degree at St Catherine's College of the University of Oxford , which he with a Bachelor of Arts graduated (BA). He completed another postgraduate degree in economics there with a Bachelor of Commerce (B. Com.) And then entered the public service of the British Indian Administration . For some time he was a civil servant in the sub-district and then in the Sindh District in what is now Pakistan , before he was Deputy Secretary of the Treasury of the Government of the Bombay Presidency between 1936 and 1937 . He then acted briefly as secretary of the stock exchange committee and from 1937 to 1939 head of the commercial agency responsible for Northern Europe based in Hamburg . After he was Deputy Head and Head of the Commercial Agency in the United Kingdom between 1939 and 1940 , he was Secretary of the East India Supply Council from 1941 to 1942 on his return. He then served as Assistant Director of the Department of General Supply between 1942 and 1943 and then as Secretary of the Department of Industry and Civil Supply of British India.

In 1947 Patel became cabinet secretary and at the same time a member of the steering group for the partition of British India in India and Pakistan . After India gained independence from the United Kingdom on August 15, 1947, he served as Secretary of State for Partition Issues between 1947 and 1948 and was then Secretary of State in the Ministry of Defense from 1947 to 1953. He then worked as State Secretary in the Ministry of Food and Agriculture between 1953 and 1955, and most recently from 1956 to 1958 as Senior State Secretary and State Secretary for Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance.

Lok Sabha member and minister of the Union

Patel began his political career when he was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Gujarat (Gujarat Vidhan Sabha) for the Indian National Congress (INC) in 1967 and was a member until 1971. In the parliamentary election that followed in 1971 , he became a member of the Lok Sabha for the first time. In protest against the state of emergency imposed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on June 25, 1975, he resigned from the INC and joined the newly founded Janata Party and temporarily served as chairman of the faction in the Lok Sabha. In the parliamentary elections in March 1977 he was re-elected as a member of Lok Sabha for the JNP in the Lok Sabha constituency of Sabarkantha and was a member of this until January 1980.

On March 26, 1977, Patel was appointed finance minister in the Desai cabinet and held this ministerial office until his replacement by Chaudhary Charan Singh on January 24, 1979. In this role, he was responsible, among other things, for the adoption of the High Denomination Bank Notes (Demonetisation ) Act of January 16, 1978, ending the use of banknotes with a value of ₹ 1,000, ₹ 5,000 and ₹ 10,000. In the course of a cabinet reshuffle, he himself took over from Prime Minister Morarji Desai on January 24, 1979 as Minister of the Interior, which he held until the end of Desai's tenure on July 28, 1979.

In the parliamentary elections on December 24, 27 and 28, 1984 , Patel was re-elected for the JNP in the Sabarkantha constituency as a member of the Lok Sabha, which he now belonged to until November 1989. During this time he was a member of the Committee on Public Accounts between 1985 and 1986.

Patel was married and had five daughters.

Publications

• The defense of India , Poona 1963
• Vithalbhai Patel , Delhi 1982
• The first flush of freedom. Recollections and reflections , editor Amrita Abraham, Rupa & Co., Delhi 2005, ISBN 8-12910-629-9
• Rites of passage. A civil servant remembers , publisher Sucheta Mahajan, Rupa & Co., Delhi 2005, ISBN 8-12910-413-X

Web links

• Short biography on the Lok Sabha homepage
• Short biography (rulers.org)
• Proof of publication ( Open Library )