Anantram Jaiswal (1 April 1924 - 17 January 2015) was a

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and

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was also a Member of

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of India. He was a member of the

6th Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the Parliament of India. The 6th Lok Sabha, which ran from 23 March 1977 to 22 August 1979 was elected in February and March 1977. 11 sitting members from Rajya Sabha were elected to 6th ...

and was also a member of the

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. Jaiswal represented the

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constituency of

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now known as

Ayodhya Ayodhya () is a city situated on the banks of the Sarayu river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ayodhya district as well as the Ayodhya division of Uttar Pradesh, India. Ayodhya became th ...

. He was also a member of the

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, and was also the opposition leader of

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Early life and education

Anantram Jaiswal was born in village

Chandwara Chandwara is a village and gram panchayat in the Chandwara CD block in the Koderma subdivision of the Koderma district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Geography Location Chandwara is located at in Jharkha ...

Barabanki Barabanki is a city and a municipal board in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of Barabanki district and a part of Ayodhya division. The city is about 30 km east of Lu ...

in the state of

. He attended the Government Inter College in the city of

and subsequently attained BA & LL.B degrees Jaiswal worked as an advocate prior to joining politics.

Political career

Jaiswal joined active politics in the 1950s. Although he was a member of the

, he was previously associated with three other political parties; viz

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Samyukta Socialist Party Samyukta Socialist Party (; SSP), was a political party in India from 1964 to 1974. SSP was formed through a split in the Praja Socialist Party (PSP) in 1964. In 1965, Ram Manohar Lohia merged his Socialist Party (Lohia) with SSP and conteste ...

and

Bharatiya Lok Dal Bharatiya Lok Dal () was a political party in India. The BLD or simply BL was formed at the end of 1974 through the fusion of seven parties opposed to the rule of Indira Gandhi, including the Swatantra Party, the Samyukta Socialist Party, the ...

. Whilst with

, he became a member of

for two terms and was also Leader of Samyukta Socialist Party in the Assembly from 1969 to 1974. Jaiswal joined the

in the mid-1970s. Jaiswal was a senior leader of

and also was a

State President of

. He was also a

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; ) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India. It was founded on 4 October 1992 by former Janata Dal politician Mulayam Singh Yadav and is headquartered in New Delhi. It is the third-largest political party in ...

Ideologist along with

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and

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. Jaiswal held several key posts and was also a Minister & State President in the

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. He had represented many leaders like

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Imprisonment

Between the 1960s–1970s, Jaiswal was imprisoned five times on various counts. Some grounds of imprisonment were participating in campaigns for removal of statues of British rulers, price rise, for grant of fair wages and clearness allowance to the government servants and teachers, for redistribution of land to the landless etc. In 1975, he was also detained for 19 months for Maintenance of Internal Security Act.

Posts held

References

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Early life and education

Political career

Imprisonment

Posts held

See also

References