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25 APR 1919-29 NOV 1975 HEMVATI NANDAN BAHUGUNA

Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna

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Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna
हेमवतीनंदन बहुगुणा
9th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
In office
8 November 1973 – 29 November 1975
GovernorAkbar Ali Khan
Marri Chenna Reddy
Preceded byPresident's rule
Succeeded byPresident's Rule
Minister of Finance
In office
28 July 1979 – 14 January 1980
Preceded byCharan Singh
Succeeded byR. Venkataraman
Personal details
Born25 April 1919
Died17 March 1989 (aged 69)
Alma materAllahabad University
Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna (25 April 1919 – 17 March 1989) was a Congress Party leader and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh ; he later joined Bharatiya Lok Dal and worked with Charan Singh.

Personal[edit]

He was born on 25 April 1919 in Bughani, Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand. The family later moved to Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh.[1]
Honored with "Proud Past Alumni" of Allahabad University.[2][3][4]
Little is known about his first marriage. His first wife always lived in his native village Bughani as a simple village woman.
His 2nd wife, Kamla Bahuguna, lived with him in Allahabad and was mother of their 3 children:
  • Their first son Vijay Bahuguna was the Chief Minister of Uttrakhand. He was a former judge of Allahabad and Bombay High Court
  • Second son Shekhar Bahuguna.
  • Daughter Rita Bahuguna Joshi is also in politics and was UP Congress Chief.

Politics[edit]

Pre independence[edit]

Students Parliament[edit]

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 or Science programme. He received an Arts degree in 1946.[1]

In jail[edit]

He was jailed as a part of Quit India movement from 1942 to 1946.[citation needed]

Post independence[edit]

Union Cabinet[edit]

In 1971, he was made State Minister for Communication in the Union Cabinet.

Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh[edit]

In 1973, he was appointed as 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[edit]

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.
In 1980, he won the Parliamentary elections from Garhwal as Indira Gandhi's Congress(I) party candidate. But, he soon left the party and resigned his seat subsequently. He won the by-election for the seat in 1982.

1984 Lok Sabha Elections[edit]

He contested against the congress candidate, Amitabh Bachchan, in 1984 Parliamentary elections from Allahabad constituency. Bachhan won the election by approximately 1,87,000 votes. Later his wife Kamla Bahuguna also stood up for by-elections from Allahabad.

Death[edit]

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.

Other[edit]

Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University is Uttarakhand's largest university, in Garhwal, is named after him.
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