Prabodh Chandra (politician)

Prabodh Chandra was a freedom fighter and an Indian politician.[2]

Prabodh Chandra
Speaker of Punjab assembly
In office
14 March 1962 – 18 March 1964
Preceded byGurdial Singh Dhillon
Succeeded byHarbans Lal Gupta
ConstituencyGurdaspur
Member of Lok Sabha
In office
1971–1977
Preceded byDiwan Chand Sharma
Succeeded byYagya Datt Sharma
ConstituencyGurdaspur
Member of Punjab Legislative Assembly[1]
In office
1952–1969
Preceded byFirst Holder
Succeeded byMohinder Singh
ConstituencyGurdaspur
Personal details
Born24 October 1911
Rawalpindi, British India (now in Pakistan)
Died8 February 1986
Political partyIndian National Congress
Parent(s)Satya Dev and Durga Devi

Early life

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Born at Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan) on 24 October 1911, to Satya Dev, Headmaster of a Government High School and Durga Devi, he did his matriculation from the Government High School, Gujrat, Pakistan in 1927 and his Intermediate as a private candidate in 1930 before completing his graduation and Post Graduation from the F.C. College, Lahore (now in Pakistan). An admirer of Swami Dayanand Saraswati,Subhash Chandra Bose and Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad, he was also influenced by the lives of Shivaji and Garibaldi.

Political career

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Chandra started his political career at the age of 16 and formed the Multan Student Union in 1927. He was closely associated with the Lahore Revolutionary Party and was arrested in connection with the Multan Bomb case in 1929. He was first jailed in 1930 and 1936, and again from 1942 to 1945. He laid the foundations of the students' movement in Punjab, and was Chairman of the All India Students' Conference in 1936. He was also selected as the sole representative of the Indian students to the 1938 World Youth Congress which he could not attend.

Later on he joined the Indian National Congress and was a member of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee. He was elected a Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly in 1946. After independence, he remained Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly in 1952, 1960 and 1962.[3]

He held the august office of the Speaker of Punjab assembly March 1962 to March 1964. He served as a Minister of Education, Health and local Self Government in the Council of Ministers of Punjab. He was also a Member of Parliament from 1971 to 1977. He was associated with numerous public and Government bodies in his lifetime.[4]

He died on 8 February 1986.

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