Karpoori Thakur

Karpoori Thakur on India Post stamp issued in 1991

Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur ( Hindi : कर्पूरी ठाकुर; Malayalam : കർപൂരി ഠാക്കൂർ; Tamil : கர்ப்பூரி தாக்கூர்; * January 24, 1924 in Pitaunjhia, Samastipur District , Bihar and Orissa Province, British India , today: Bihar ; † February 18, 1988 in Patna , Bihar) was an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Kranti Dal and later the Janata Party (JNP), who was Chief Minister of Bihar from 1970 to 1971 and again between 1977 and 1979 and also a member of the Lok Sabha .

Life

Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur, son of Gokul Thakur, started an undergraduate degree at Chandradhari Mithila College in Darbhanga after attending the Upper Primary School , Pitaujia Middle English School in Tajpur and the Tirhut Academy in Samastipur , which he dropped out of without a degree. Between 1935 and 1940 he was the librarian of the youth library in his native Pitaunjhia and between 1937 and 1940 a member of the student association. At the beginning of the 1940s he began his political engagement in the Congress Socialist Party (CSP) and in the Quit India movement, which Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi proclaimed in 1942 . He was arrested for his activities in 1943 and was subsequently detained for 26 months. After his release from prison he was secretary of the Congress Socialist Party in the Darbhanga district from 1945 to 1947 and then secretary of the Socialist Party of India (SPI) in Bihar between 1948 and 1952 . In addition, he was involved in 1947, first as vice secretary and then from 1948 to 1952 as secretary of the Pradeshik Kisan Sabha smallholder movement in Bihar. After the merger of the Socialist Party of Jayaprakash Narayan , Narendra Deva and Basawon Singh with the Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party of Jivatram Bhagwandas Kripalani in September 1952, he joined the resulting Praja Socialist Party (PSP) and was secretary of the PSP and a member of the National Working Committee the PSP.

In 1952, Thakur first became a member of the Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) , the lower house of the Parliament of Bihar State , and was a member of this until 1972. In 1964 he left the PSP and joined the resulting splinter party Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP), which, however, reunited with the PSP in 1972. He was chairman of the SSP in Bihar and in 1967 served as deputy chief minister, education minister and finance minister in the state government of Bihar led by Chief Minister Mahamaya Prasad Sinha . He was also chairman of the All-India Samyukta Socialist Party between 1969 and 1971 . As the successor to Daroga Prasad Rai of the Indian National Congress (INC), he became Chief Minister of Bihar for the first time on December 22, 1970 and held this office until June 1, 1971, whereupon Bhola Paswan Shastri of the INC took his place. He was then still a member of the National Committee of the Samyukta Socialist Party between 1972 and 1973 and in 1974 switched to the Indian People's Party BLD ( Bharatiya Lok Dal ) founded by Chaudhary Charan Singh .

In the parliamentary election from March 16 to 20, 1977 , Karpoori Thakur was for the Janata Party (JNP), which was formed from the BLD, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) and the Indian National Congress (Organization) (INC (O)) , elected a member of the Lok Sabha , the lower house of the Indian parliament (Bhāratīya saṃsad) for the constituency of Samastipur in Bihar . On June 24, 1977 but he resigned this mandate and was the successor of Jagannath Mishra , after a recent so-called presidential administration ( President's rule ) for the second time Chief Minister of Bihar. He remained in this position until April 20, 1979, when his party rival Ram Sundar Das took over.

His marriage to Shrimati Phuleshwari Devi had two sons and a daughter. The Jan Nayak Karpuri Thakur Vidhi Mahavidyalaya Law School in Buxar and the Jannayak Karpoori Thakur Medical College in Madhepura were named in his honor.

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Rajya Sabha
• Entry in Rulers
• Chief Ministers of Bihar

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bihar: Chief Ministers (Rulers)
2. ↑ Bihar: Chief Ministers (Rulers)