Shivanand (3 January 1922 – 31 October 2006 ) was an Indian politician and a freedom fighter from

Satna Satna is a city in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Madhya Pradesh. It serves as the headquarters of Satna district. It is 7th largest city and List of cities in Madhya Pradesh by population, 8th most populous city of the s ...

district of

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (; ; ) is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and the largest city is Indore, Indore. Other major cities includes Gwalior, Jabalpur, and Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, Sagar. Madhya Pradesh is the List of states and union te ...

. He was President of Rewa Rajya Praja Mandal from December 1946 to January 1948 and was jailed five times during freedom struggle and expelled from Rewa state many times. He was elected from

Constituency to the

Vindhya Pradesh Vindhya Pradesh was a former state of India. It was created in 1948 as Union of Baghelkhand and Bundelkhand States from the territories of the princely states in the eastern portion of the former Central India Agency. It was named as Vindhya P ...

Legislative assembly in 1952 and sworn in as Speaker of that assembly. He was also member of

Legislative assembly from 1957-62 along with Vishweshwar Prasad. During 1952–56 and 1959–62, he served as State Convener (Pradesh Sanyojak) of the Bharat Sewak Samaj under the leadership of Pt. Nehru and

Gulzarilal Nanda Gulzarilal Nanda (4 July 1898 – 15 January 1998) was an Indian politician and economist who specialised in labour issues. He was the Acting Prime Minister of India for two 13-day tenures following the deaths of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964 and L ...

and was very closely associated with them. He authored many books namely

Nagar, Madhya Pradesh ke pratham patrakar - Lal Baldeo Singh, Mahatma Gandhi - Ek Vibhuti,

Bundelkhand Bundelkhand (, ) is a geographical and cultural region and a proposed state and also a mountain range in central and North India. It corresponds to the Post-Vedic Chedi kingdom. The hilly region is now divided between the states of Uttar Prad ...

Baghelkhand Bagelkhand or Baghelkhand is a proposed state and a mountain range in central India that covers the northeastern regions of Madhya Pradesh and a small area of southeastern Uttar Pradesh. History Dahala Baghelkhand was known as Dahala in the ...

and Hindu.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shivanand People from Satna district People from Rewa, Madhya Pradesh People from Madhya Pradesh Vindhya Pradesh politicians Vindhya Pradesh MLAs 1951–1956 Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1957–1962 2006 deaths 1922 births Indian National Congress politicians from Madhya Pradesh