Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna
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Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna | |
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Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh | |
In office 8 November 1973 – 29 November 1975 | |
Preceded by | President's rule |
Succeeded by | President's rule |
Personal details | |
Born | 25 April 1919 Allahabad University |
Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna (25 April 1919 – 17 March 1989) was an
Personal life
He was born on 25 April 1919 in Bughani,
Little is known about his first marriage. His first wife always lived in his native village Bughani as a simple village woman. His second wife,
- Their eldest son Vijay Bahuguna served as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. He was a former judge of Allahabad and Bombay High Court. He is member of Bharatiya Janata Party. Vijay's son Saurabh is a Member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from BJP .[3] He is serving as the Minister of Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Skill development & Employment, Protocol and Sugarcane Development in the Pushkar Singh Dhami's cabinet of 2022.[4]
- Second son Shekhar Bahuguna.
- The couple's daughter, Allahabad. She is member of Bharatiya Janata Party.
Politics
Pre independence
Students Parliament
He studied in D.A.V. School and Messmore Inter College of Pauri Town. He passed 10th from Pauri and went to the Government Intermediate College in Allahabad in 1937 in the Bachelor of Science programme. He received an Arts degree in 1946.[2]
In jail
He was jailed as a part of Quit India movement from 1942 to 1946.[citation needed]
Post independence
Union Cabinet
In 1971, he was made State Minister for Communication in the Union Cabinet.
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
In 1973, he was appointed the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state in India. However, his tenure was short and he was forced to resign by Prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1975.
Parting of ways with the Congress
In early 1977, when Indira Gandhi lifted the state emergency and called for new elections to the Lok Sabha, Bahuguna left the ruling Congress party of Indira and formed a new group called Congress for Democracy (CFD) with Jagjivan Ram and Nandini Satpathy. The CFD joined the Janata alliance to contest the elections. After the victory of the Janata alliance, Bahuguna joined the cabinet of Janata Prime Minister Morarji Desai as the minister of chemicals and fertilizers. In 1979, he became the Finance Minister under the short lived (August - December 1979) Charan Singh administration. During his term, Indian economy went into the last recession of the 20th century. Real GDP growth fell by massive 5.2% in 1979 due to the
In the January 1980 Parliamentary elections he won from
1984 Lok Sabha Elections
He contested against the Congress candidate,
Electoral history
- 1971 : Elected to Lok Sabha from Allahabadas member of Congress
- 1977 : Elected to Lok Sabha from Lucknow as member of 'Congress For Democracy', supported by Janata Party
- 1980 : Elected to Lok Sabha from Garhwalas member of Congress, but soon quit both Congress and Lok Sabha
- 1982 bypoll : Elected to Lok Sabha from Garhwal, defeating his Congress rival
- 1984 : Lost to Amitabh Bachchan in Prayagraj (Allahabad)
Death
Bahuguna fell ill in 1988 and flew to the United States for coronary bypass surgery. The surgery was unsuccessful and he died 17 March 1989 in a Cleveland hospital.
Legacy
- Pauri Garhwal
- Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Uttarakhand Medical Education University, in Dehradun, Uttarakhand
References
- ^ Mishra, Anand (16 August 2020). "Big fight for Brahmin votes in Uttar Pradesh". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
- ^ a b "Hemanti Nandan Bahuguna". Pauri Garhwal Group. Archived from the original on 1 June 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
- ^ Kumar, Yogesh (24 January 2017). "Vijay Bahuguna's younger son Saurabh to take forward his legacy". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
- ^ "Uttarakhand CM Dhami allots portfolios, keeps over two dozen departments with himself". The Indian Express. 30 March 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022.