Chaturanan Mishra

Chaturanan Mishra ( born April 7, 1925 in Nahar, Madhubani district, Bihar, † July 2, 2011 in Patna, Bihar ) was an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (CPI ) and union official.

Life

Mishra joined the 1942 Quit India movement and fought for this for ending the British colonial rule in British India. After the sovereignty of India by the United Kingdom on August 15, 1947, he became a leading official in the union of the miners in Giridih, a world characterized by mining and trading of mica city in the state of Jharkhand in the region bordering Bihar.

He also became involved early on in the CPI and was due to his reputation as deputy critic of social, economic and political relations chief editor of the party newspaper of the CPI. In 1951, he was first a member of the Executive Committee of the CPI of Bihar and in 1964 member of the Secretariat of the CPI in the state. 1964, moreover, the first time he was elected a member of the National Council of the CPI, where he served until 2002. 1964 Mishra was also chairman of the Fourth World Conference of miners in Moscow.

In 1969 he was also elected a member of Parliament of the State of Bihar and represented this constituency until 1980 Giridih. Mishra, who was 1983-1989 and President of the Confederation of Indian Trade Unions ( All India Trade Union Congress ), 1984 elected as representatives of Bihar as a member in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament, and was one of these until 1996.

After 1996 as a representative of the constituency in Madhubani, the lower house, the Lok Sabha was elected, took place in June 1996 his appointment as Union Minister of Agriculture by the Janata Dal provided by the Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda. Mishra was so beside Indrajit Gupta, the Home Secretary in 1996, was the first communist minister in a Union government. The Office of the Minister of Agriculture, he kept even after the inauguration of Inder Kumar Gujral in April 1997 and was appointed by this addition, in May 1997 on the Union Minister for Food, Civil goods, consumer protection and public distribution in the cabinet, which he held until the end of Gujrals tenure belonged in March 1998.

Mishra, who campaigned for the introduction of a social security pension for the needy, was honored by the Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar after his death as a great freedom fighter and as a loss for the state and India.