Kedar Pandey

Kedar Pandey ( Hindi : केदार पांडे; born June 14, 1920 in Taulaha, West Champaran District , Bihar and Orissa Province, British India , today: Bihar ; † March 25, 1983 ) was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress (INC), who was Chief Minister of Bihar from 1972 to 1973 and also a member of Lok Sabha between 1980 and 1983 . In 1980 he was Minister of Irrigation in the Indira Gandhi III cabinet , then Minister of Railways between 1980 and 1982 and, most recently, Minister of Irrigation from 1982 to 1983.

Life

Kedar Pandey, son of Pandit Ramphal Panday, graduated from the Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi with a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree. He completed another law degree at Banaras Hindu University with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). Because of his political involvement in the independence movement, in which other later chief ministers of Bihar such as Bindeshwari Dubey , Bhagwat Jha Azad , Chandra Shekhar Singh , Satyendra Narayan Sinha and Abdul Ghafoor were active, he was arrested in 1942 and was imprisoned for eleven months . In 1945 he was admitted to the bar at the district court responsible for Motihari and Bettiah , where he worked until 1948. He was also involved in the trade union movement between 1946 and 1957 and was vice-chairman of the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) in Bihar. In 1949 he received his legal approval for the Supreme Court (High Court) in Patna .

Pandey began his political career in 1952 when he first became a member of the Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) , the lower house of the parliament of the state of Bihar, for the Indian National Congress (INC) and was a member of it until 1962. In the state governments of Srikrishna Sinha , the first Chief Minister of Bihar from 1947 to 1961, and his successor Binodananda Jha , he was Deputy Minister for Interior and Police and Deputy Minister for Irrigation and Energy between 1957 and 1962. In 1967 he was again a member of the Legislative Assembly of Bihar, of which he was a member until 1980. In the state government of Chief Minister Daroga Prasad Rai , he was Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Industry from February to December 1970. As the successor of Bhola Paswan Shastri , he took over after a temporary so-called presidential administration ( President's rule ) on March 19, 1972 even the office of Chief Minister of Bihar and held this position until 1 July 1973 after which his party colleague Abdul Ghafoor from INC his successor started. After the state of emergency , which lasted from 1975 to 1977 , he became chairman of the INC in Bihar in 1977, but subsequently, like Indira Gandhi, himself arrested three times during the period in office of Prime Minister Morarji Desai from 1977 to 1979.

In the parliamentary elections on January 3 and 6, 1980 , Kedar Pandey was elected a member of the Lok Sabha , the lower house of the Indian parliament (Bhāratīya saṃsad) for the Indian National Congress in the constituency of Bettiah in Bihar . On June 8, 1980, he took over the office of Minister for Irrigation in the Indira Gandhi III cabinet of ABA Ghani Khan Choudhury , which he held until he was replaced by ABA Ghani Khan Choudhury on November 12, 1980. He himself then replaced Kamalapati Tripathi as Minister of Railways on November 12, 1980 and held this ministerial office until January 15, 1982, when Prakash Chandra Sethi succeeded him. In the course of this cabinet reshuffle, he again took over the post of Minister for Irrigation as the successor to ABA Ghani Khan Choudhury and held it until January 29, 1983.

His marriage to Shrimati Kamla Panday on June 6, 1948 resulted in two sons and two daughters.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bihar: Chief Ministers (Rulers)
2. ^ Cabinet of Indira Gandhi III