Yeshwantrao Balwantrao Chavan

Yeshwantrao Balwantrao Chavan

Yeshwantrao Balwantrao Chavan (born March 12, 1912 in Satara , Bombay ; † November 25, 1984 in New Delhi ) was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress (INC), who was among other things Chief Minister of Maharashtra , Minister of Finance and Minister of Foreign Affairs .

Life

Chief Minister of Bombay and Maharashtra

Chavan graduated from the University of Pune after attending school . He was a staunch nationalist and also a supporter of communism , which increasingly despised the politics of civil disobedience of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi during the time of British colonial administration in British India . Ultimately, he was a fighter in the guerrilla movement in 1942 and arrested in 1944.

After the end of the Second World War , Chavan was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly of the state of Bombay in 1946 and on November 1, 1956, as the successor to Morarji Desai , Chief Minister of that state. After Bombay was divided into the two states of Gujarat and Maharashtra , he became the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra on May 1, 1960 and held this office until he was replaced by Marotrao Sambashio Kannamwar on November 19, 1962.

Union Minister for Defense, Home Affairs, Finance and Foreign Affairs

As early as November 14, 1962, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appointed him to a Union government for the first time as Union Minister of Defense and held this ministerial office under Nehru's successor Lal Bahadur Shastri as well as in the interim governments of Gulzarilal Nanda . During his tenure as Minister of Defense he carried out extensive modernization of the army and air forces , which made a significant contribution to India's success during the Second Indo-Pakistani War in 1965 and the Bangladesh War in 1971.

On November 14, 1966, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi appointed Chavan to succeed Gulzarilal Nanda as Union Minister of Home Affairs , while Sardar Swaran Singh succeeded him as Minister of Defense.

As part of a further cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Gandhi appointed him Union Minister of Finance on June 27, 1970 , a ministerial post that the Prime Minister herself had previously held while she was his successor as Interior Minister.

In a new government reshuffle on October 10, 1974, Chavan finally took over the office of Foreign Minister (Union Minister of External Affairs) from Sardar Swaran Singh , while C. Subramaniam , the previous Minister for Food and Agriculture, Science and Technology and Industrial Development, served him Office of finance minister followed. He held the post of foreign minister until the end of Indira Gandhi's term of office on March 24, 1977, although he was one of the critics of the national state of emergency she imposed in 1975. Shortly before the 1977 Lok Sabha elections , he finally broke with the Prime Minister when he became leader of the Congress Party in the lower house of the Indian Parliament .

After the end of the term of office of Prime Minister Morarji Desai on July 28, 1979 Chavan was entrusted with the formation of a government, which he did not succeed. Instead, he took over the post of Vice Prime Minister and again Minister of the Interior in Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh's of the Janata Party on July 30, 1979, and held these functions until January 14, 1980.

In the 1980 Lok Sabha elections, he was only just able to defend his mandate and most recently rejoined the Indira Gandhi faction of the Congress Party, which was loyal to Indira Gandhi .

Web links

• Short biography in rulers.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ India: States after 1947 MW (rulers.org)
2. ↑ India: Ministries (rulers.org)