More Chand Khanna

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More Chand Khanna ( Pashtun مهر شنص خنها; * June 1, 1897 in Peshawar , British India , today Pakistan ; † July 20, 1970 in New Delhi ) was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress (INC), who was a member of the Rajya Sabha between 1955 and 1962 and a member of the Lok Sabha from 1962 to 1967 . He also held numerous ministerial posts between 1954 and 1966.

Life

Minister of the Northwest Frontier Province and Advisor to the Nehru Government

Khanna completed his education at Edward's College in his native Peshawar. He became a member of the early 1930s by the government of British India Committee established for the regulation of crime in the border area (Frontier Crimes Regulations Inquiry Committee) and was from 1932 to 1947 as a member of the Legislative Assembly of the North West Frontier Province on. For this he took part in a meeting of the joint committee in London in 1933 . In 1937 he held the office of finance minister of the Northwestern Frontier Province for the first time and in 1942 also took part in the conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) in Canada as a member of the Indian delegation . In 1945 he was again Finance Minister of the Northwest Frontier Province during the tenure of Prime Minister Khan Sahib .

After India gained independence from the United Kingdom on August 15, 1947, Khanna served as an adviser to the government of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on rehabilitation issues between 1948 and 1954 . As such, on August 1 and 4, 1954, he took part in talks with representatives of the Government of Pakistan about the securing, preservation and maintenance of religious places in India and Pakistan.

Minister and member of the Rajya Sabha

In 1954, Prime Minister Nehru appointed him Minister of Rehabilitation in his second cabinet . In this capacity he signed an agreement on the resumption of rail traffic between India and Pakistan on April 15, 1955 in Karachi with Khan Sahib, who was now Pakistan's Minister of Communications.

On May 13, 1955, he was also a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament , to which he was a member until February 26, 1962. On April 4, 1957, he took over the post of Minister for Rehabilitation and Minority Affairs in the third Nehru cabinet.

In the elections in February 1962 , Khanna was elected as a candidate for the Congress Party in a constituency for New Delhi belonging to Delhi to a member of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament, and was a member of this until the end of the third legislative term in 1967, having previously served had lost his parliamentary mandate in the February 1967 elections to Manohar Lal Sondhi of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).

On April 2, 1962, Khanna took over the post of Minister for Public Works, Housing and Utilities in Prime Minister Nehru's fourth cabinet and also held this post in the subsequent government of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and in the first government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi until March 12, 1967. In this role he took part in November 1966 at an all-Indian conference of eleven friendship societies between the GDR and India. Other participants included the then Minister for Labor, Employment and Rehabilitation, Jagjivan Ram , the Vice President of the Rajya Sabha, Violet Alva , and the former Defense Minister VK Krishna Menon .

His marriage to Ram Piyari Khanna on June 15, 1915 resulted in two sons and three daughters.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frontier Province North-West Frontier Province (rulers.org)
  2. ↑ Moonis Raza, Aijazuddin Ahmad: An Atlas of Tribal India: With Computed Tables of District-level Data and Its Geographical Interpretation , 1990, ISBN 8-17022-286-9 , p 76th
  3. ↑ LC Jain: The City of Hope: The Faridabad Story , 1998, ISBN 8-17022-748-8 , p. 27 and a.
  4. ↑ Mohinder Singh / Indu Khetarpal: THE INVINCIBLE SOUL , 2013, ISBN 9-35029-936-4 .
  5. ↑ Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal, Geraldine Hancock Forbes: An Indian Freedom Fighter Recalls Her Life , 1994, ISBN 1-56324-339-3 , p. 136.
  6. ↑ Kulwant Rai Gupta (editor): India-Pakistan Relations with Special Reference to Kashmir , 2003, ISBN 8-12690-271-X , p. 753.
  7. ↑ Kulwant Rai Gupta (editor): India-Pakistan Relations with Special Reference to Kashmir , 2003, ISBN 8-12690-271-X , pp. 697 f.
  8. ↑ IK Gujral : Matters of Discretion: An Autobiography , 2011, ISBN 9-38139-812-7 .
  9. ↑ Johannes H. Voigt: The India Policy of the GDR: From Beginnings to Recognition (1952-1972) , 2008, ISBN 3-41218-106-4 , p. 579.
personal data
SURNAME Khanna, More Chand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Peshawar , today Pakistan
DATE OF DEATH 20th July 1970
Place of death New Delhi