Vidya Charan Shukla

Vidya Charan Shukla ( born August 2, 1929 in Raipur, Central Provinces; † June 11, 2013 in Gurgaon, Haryana ) was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress ( INC), among others, several years deputy of the lower house ( Lok Sabha ) and briefly Foreign Minister was.

Life

Shukla was the son of a lawyer and freedom fighter Ravi Shankar Shukla, who was 1947-1956 Chief Minister of Central Provinces and Berar and of Madhya Pradesh. Shyama Charan Shukla His older brother was 1972-1972, 1975-1977 and 1989-1990 also Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.

He completed post-school studies in Agricultural Sciences at Morris College London and University College of Law in Nagpur and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA ) from. Subsequently, he worked as an agronomist.

His political career began when he Shukla as a candidate of the Indian National Congress in 1957 for the first time as a deputy in the lower house ( Lok Sabha ) was chosen. After eight elections he represented until 1996, the interests of the constituency or last Mahasamund Raipur.

While the government under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the emergency time (The Emergency) 1975-1977 Shukla was Minister of State in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

The mid-1980s he joined Vishwanath Pratap Singh, who criticized the leadership of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, and was with this 1987 one of the founders of the Popular Front (Jan Morcha ). After its merger with parts of the Janata Party, Bharatiya Lok Dal and the the Indian National Congress ( Socialist ) and Janata Dal on October 11, 1988, he entered at this, and was re-elected in the 1989 elections as the candidate for MPs in the Lok Sabha.

After Vishwanath Pratap Singh was the successor to Rajiv Gandhi as Prime Minister on December 2, 1989, Shukla was appointed as Minister of State in his government. Subsequently, he was appointed on 21 November 1990 by his successor as Prime Minister, Chandra Shekhar foreign minister and thus the successor of Inder Kumar Gujral. The Minister of Foreign Affairs held Shukla almost three months until 20 February 1991. Afterwards, he was again a member of the Indian National Congress.

On May 25, 2013 Shukla was severely injured in an election rally by a stroke of Naxalites and died after nearly three weeks of treatment at a hospital in Gurgaon.