Babu Jagjivan Ram - Revision history

Jyoti at 07:21, 14 July 2017

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Jyoti: /* 1977: against Indira Gandhi */

2017-07-14T07:21:37Z

‎1977: against Indira Gandhi

Jyoti at 07:21, 14 July 2017

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Pdewan at 17:14, 3 July 2017

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Pdewan: Pdewan moved page Babu Jagjivan Ram, Meira Kumar to Babu Jagjivan Ram without leaving a redirect

2017-06-22T22:45:03Z

Pdewan moved page Babu Jagjivan Ram, Meira Kumar to Babu Jagjivan Ram without leaving a redirect

Pdewan at 22:44, 22 June 2017

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Pdewan at 12:10, 25 January 2014

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Pdewan: /* Babu Jagjivan Ram */

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‎Babu Jagjivan Ram

Pdewan: /* Meira Kumar */

2014-01-25T12:04:29Z

‎Meira Kumar

Pdewan: /* Sasaram */

2014-01-25T12:03:42Z

‎Sasaram

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		+	=1977: against Indira Gandhi=
		+	[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=In-77-he-dared-to-rebel-against-Indira-23062017016026 Jun 23 2017, In 1977, he dared to rebel against Indira, The Times of India]
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		+	Meira Kumar's father Jagjivan Ram was an influential political figure for almost four decades. A very bright student who overcame social discrimination, to which he was subjected because of being Dalit, Ram acquired the reputation of a good administrator and was at ease tackling the complexities of governance: a terrain which politicians often fail to negotiate.
		+
		+	Referred to as `Babuji' in his later years, he was the defence minister when India defeated Pakistan in 1971. His tenure as agriculture minister in the late 1960s saw fruition of the efforts to launch the Green Revolution, leading to food self-sufficiency.
		+
		+	The talented politician had caught the attention of leaders of the freedom struggle when he was a young labour leader working in Kolkata. He was among those who contributed to the All India Depressed Classes League: an outfit of Dalits and others who had suffered social discrimination.
		+
		+	Recognition came early and he was appointed the youngest member of Jawaharlal Nehru's interim cabinet. He remained a minister through the 1970s.
		+
		+	His rise was also facilitated by the Congress leadership's consideration to develop him as a counterweight to Dalit icon B R Ambedkar, whom it had fallen out with.Though Babuji suffered discrimination too, unlike Ambedkar, he did not turn into a rebel against Hinduism: perhaps because his father was deeply religious and, after quitting the Army , became a mahanth of the Shiv Narayani sect. In fact, there are references to Jagjivan `Babu' once attending a conference of Hindu Mahasabha.
		+
		+	He sided with Indira Gandhi when she split the party . In fact, he was made the head of the breakaway faction. Though no tional, the designation reflected his impor tance. However, his re lationship with the Nehru-Gandhi family turned bitter when Indira suspected him of harbouring the ambition of replacing her as PM after the Allahabad HC nullified her election to the Lok Sabha. He was consigned to the political doghouse during the Emergency.
		+
		+	Ram launched a rebellion when Indira announced elec tions in 1977. He and H N Bahuguna formed Congress for Democracy and joined forces with Janata Party to inflict a humiliating defeat on Indira.
		+
		+	He was among those in the running to be PM, and reportedly enjoyed the support of Jaiprakash Narayan. The candidature, however, could not find enough support among Janata Party MPs and Jagjivan Babu had to be content with being deputy PM.Janata Party projected him as its choice for PM in the 1980 polls but was routed.
		+
		+	He left Janata Party to float Congress (J), which turned out to be a spectacular failure. While he somehow scraped through in his Lok Sabha seat of Sasaram in 1984 under controversial circumstances, his party bombed at the hustings. He passed away in 1986.

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 =Babu Jagjivan Ram, Meira Kumar =
+[[File: Babu Jagjivan Ram with Pandit Nehru.png|Babu Jagjivan Ram with Pandit Nehru|frame|left|500px]]
 By Meira Kumar
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 water has flown under
 the bridge since then.
 [[Meira Kumar]]
-[[File: mer.png||frame|500px]]
-−
-= Meira Kumar=
-Obama's journey as a statesman and as the
-head of state is an inspiration for many
-especially those who struggle for and aspire for a life of dignity”. With these words the
-honourable speaker of the Lok Sabha, Smt. Meira
-Kumar welcomed US President Mr. Barack
-Obama to the Indian Parliament in November
-. Her beautifully crafted speech made waves
-around the world as it articulately expressed the
-emotions of millions of marginalized people who
-looked upon Obama's election as a culmination of
-their aspirations for a just social order.
-−
-[[File: Meira Kumar with father Jagjivan Ram.png| Meira Kumar with father Jagjivan Ram|frame|500px]]
-−
-[[File: Babu Jagjivan Ram with Pandit Nehru.png|Babu Jagjivan Ram with Pandit Nehru|frame|left|500px]]
-−
-Meira Kumar's journey has been no less
-inspirational. Born into the household of Babu
-Jagjivan Ram,
-she could not
-but be
-influenced by
-the early
-struggles of her
-illustrious
-father
-−
-Born in Patna in 1945, Meira
-cut her political teeth as a
-baby. Her father, had by then
-become a representative of
-Sasaram Constituency in
-Bihar, a position he would
-continue to hold for fifty years
-– an unbroken record to this
-day.
-−
-Having received her university education in Delhi,
-Meira Kumar, a law graduate, went on to
-represent India as a young diplomat later joining
-politics at the request of Shri Rajiv Gandhi. Her
-charm, serenity and affability saw her sail through
-three elections from Karol Bagh, New Delhi and
-two from Sasaram, Bihar. A daughter of Bihar
-took on the mantle of not only her illustrious
-father but her equally well known mother in law
-Sumitra Devi, Bihar's first woman minister. Her
-husband, Anshul Kumar is a well-known Supreme
-Court lawyer who has always supported their
-many public obligations as heirs of Bihar's most
-distinguished freedom fighters and social
-reformers. Her performance as India's first woman
-speaker of the Lok Sabha has showcased her as a
-global Indian – a role model for young Indian
-women seeking to take their rightful place as
-confident citizens of the world's largest
-democracy. They stand poised to participate in
-world affairs representing India's unmatched
-ancient civilization, secure in their modernity in
-the footsteps of their role model Shrimati Meira
-Kumar.
-−
-Today, what makes Meira Kumar stand head and
-shoulders over her two rivals in Parliament is her
-broad world view – a vantage point from where
-she can see the larger picture and perhaps
-showcase to the world how beautifully India has
-fought untouchability and given its daughters a
-level playing field. The cosmopolitan,
-multitalented Meira Kumar is the realization of
-the dream of India's founding
-fathers who enshrined social
-equity in the Constitution of
-India.
-−
-It is not unlikely that parliamentarian
-Meira Kumar's early exposure to Sasaram's
-glorious past was to shape her multidimensional,
-multilingual personality in the years to come. She
-is fluent in Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu, Bhojpuri,
-English and Spanish.
-−
-She is an accomplished markswoman, a poet in
-both Sanskrit and Urdu and has associated herself
-with conservation and heritage issues. No small
-wonder that the constituency that gave her a
-thumping victory in the last two Lok Sabha
-elections has full faith in her ability to once more
-put this landmark district on the national stage and
-to take it's rightful place as a symbol of India's
-ancient history. She, as most Biharis from
-[[Sasaram]] District, are the natural heirs to the
-legacy of Samrat Ashok whose pillar (one of the
-thirteen Shilalekh) is housed in a small cave in
-Kainur hill in Sasaram District.

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 lamp of determination to fight a social
 evil that millions like him had learned
-to bear over the centuries. Pandit
+to bear over the centuries.
 Madan Mohan Malviya, on a
 visit to his school was so
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 on the issue of discrimination and
 came to the notice of Subhash
-Chandra Bose. His journey as a
+Chandra Bose.
 freedom fighter, social activist and
 political crusader had begun. The
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 equality for
 untouchables. The rest is
-history. In 1985, Babuji
+history.
 had the satisfaction of
 seeing his daughter
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 water has flown under
 the bridge since then.
 Today, what makes Meira Kumar stand head and
 shoulders over her two rivals in Parliament is her
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 India.
-[[File: mer.png||frame|500px]]
+It is not unlikely that parliamentarian
 = Meira Kumar=

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	– an unbroken record to this		– an unbroken record to this
	day.		day.
		+
		+	Having received her university education in Delhi,
		+	Meira Kumar, a law graduate, went on to
		+	represent India as a young diplomat later joining
		+	politics at the request of Shri Rajiv Gandhi. Her
		+	charm, serenity and affability saw her sail through
		+	three elections from Karol Bagh, New Delhi and
		+	two from Sasaram, Bihar. A daughter of Bihar
		+	took on the mantle of not only her illustrious
		+	father but her equally well known mother in law
		+	Sumitra Devi, Bihar's first woman minister. Her
		+	husband, Anshul Kumar is a well-known Supreme
		+	Court lawyer who has always supported their
		+	many public obligations as heirs of Bihar's most
		+	distinguished freedom fighters and social
		+	reformers. Her performance as India's first woman
		+	speaker of the Lok Sabha has showcased her as a
		+	global Indian – a role model for young Indian
		+	women seeking to take their rightful place as
		+	confident citizens of the world's largest
		+	democracy. They stand poised to participate in
		+	world affairs representing India's unmatched
		+	ancient civilization, secure in their modernity in
		+	the footsteps of their role model Shrimati Meira
		+	Kumar.

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 continue to hold for fifty years
 – an unbroken record to this
 day.
-= Sasaram=
-Sasaram, by itself, is no
-ordinary district. It has been
-the seat of power of legendry
-rulers such as the Satyawadi
-Raja Harishchandra in the
-seventh century and the
-phenomenal Sher Shah Suri in
-the 15th century. Sasaram's
-history straddles the Ramayan
-period and the rule of Raja
-Harishchandra, whose Rohtas
-Fort was later rebuilt by Sher
-Shah Suri and is an early example of India's
-multiculturalism. The fort, during Sher Shah's
-reign continued to house the Churasan and
-Ganesh Temples alongside the Diwan – e – Aam
-and Diwan-e-Khas. Surrounded by hillocks and
-water falls it was an idyllic location for the seat of
-the Kingdom. It was here that Sher Shah Suri was
-born and built an empire from East Afghanistan to
-Bengal. This visionary Afghan ruler, in his short
-but eventful reign of five years was to leave a
-legacy that connected Kabul to North India and on
-to the East Coast through a paved road known as
-the Grand Trunk Road. His administrative skills
-and taxation laws were so exemplary that the
-Moghul and British rulers adopted them too. He
-lies buried in Sasaram, in a red sandstone
-mausoleum in the middle of an artificial lake. This
-grand monument built in the Indo-Afghan style
-has Iranian influences in its blue and yellow
-glazed tiles with some similarity to the Lodhi
-tombs. Most significantly, it's massive free
-standing dome also borrows from the Buddhist
-Stupa style of the Mauryans. It is not unlikely that
-Meira Kumar's early exposure to Sasaram's
-glorious past was to shape her multidimensional,
-multilingual personality in the years to come. She
-is fluent in Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu, Bhojpuri,
-English and Spanish.
-−
-[[File: Sasaram Waterfall.png|Sasaram Waterfall|frame|500px]]
-−
-She is an accomplished markswoman, a poet in
-both Sanskrit and Urdu and has associated herself
-with conservation and heritage issues. No small
-wonder that the constituency that gave her a
-thumping victory in the last two Lok Sabha
-elections has full faith in her ability to once more
-put this landmark district on the national stage and
-to take it's rightful place as a symbol of India's
-ancient history. She, as most Biharis from
-Sasaram District, are the natural heirs to the
-legacy of Samrat Ashok whose pillar (one of the
-thirteen Shilalekh) is housed in a small cave in
-Kainur hill in Sasaram District.
-−
-[[File: Mausoleum of Sher Shah Suri.png|Mausoleum of Sher Shah Suri|frame|500px]]
-−
-[[File: Rohtas Fort at Sasaram.png|Rohtas Fort at Sasaram|frame|left|500px]]
-−
-Having received her university education in Delhi,
-Meira Kumar, a law graduate, went on to
-represent India as a young diplomat later joining
-politics at the request of Shri Rajiv Gandhi. Her
-charm, serenity and affability saw her sail through
-three elections from Karol Bagh, New Delhi and
-two from Sasaram, Bihar. A daughter of Bihar
-took on the mantle of not only her illustrious
-father but her equally well known mother in law
-Sumitra Devi, Bihar's first woman minister. Her
-husband, Anshul Kumar is a well-known Supreme
-Court lawyer who has always supported their
-many public obligations as heirs of Bihar's most
-distinguished freedom fighters and social
-reformers. Her performance as India's first woman
-speaker of the Lok Sabha has showcased her as a
-global Indian – a role model for young Indian
-women seeking to take their rightful place as
-confident citizens of the world's largest
-democracy. They stand poised to participate in
-world affairs representing India's unmatched
-ancient civilization, secure in their modernity in
-the footsteps of their role model Shrimati Meira
-Kumar.