Jagjivan Ram Biography
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Jagjivan Ram (5
April 1908 – 6 July 1986), known
popularly as Babuji, was an Indian independence activist and politician from
Bihar. He was instrumental in the foundation of the All-India Depressed Classes
League, an organisation dedicated to attaining equality for untouchables, in 1935 and was elected to Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1937, after which he organised the rural labour movement.
In 1946, he became
the youngest minister in Jawaharlal Nehru's interim government, the first
cabinet of India as a Labour Minister and also a member of the Constituent
Assembly of India, where he ensured that social justice was enshrined in the
Constitution. He went on to serve as a minister with various portfolios for
more than forty years as a member of the Indian National Congress (INC). Most
importantly, he was the Defence Minister of India during the Indo-Pak war of 1971, which resulted in the creation of Bangladesh. His
contribution to the Green Revolution in India and modernising Indian
agriculture, during his two tenures as Union Agriculture Minister are still
remembered, especially during 1974 drought when he was
asked to hold the additional portfolio to tide over the food crisis.
Though he supported Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi during the Emergency (1975–77), he left
Congress in 1977 and joined the Janata Party alliance,
along with his Congress for Democracy. He later served as the Deputy Prime
Minister of India (1977–79); then in 1980,
he formed Congress (J).
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