Chandrashekhar Singh
Chandrashekhar Singh (17 August 1927 - 9 July 1986) was a member of the Indian National Congress and served as the 16th Chief Minister of Bihar from August 1983 to March 1985. He also held a number of Union State Minister positions in the Ministry of Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. He was elected to Bihar Vidhan Sabha four times, and also to the Parliament a few times.
He last held the position of Union Minister of Petroleum, during which he died due to cancer.
He was elected to the Bihar Vidhan Sabha in 1952, 1957 and 1969 from Jhajha (Vidhan Sabha cons*uency). He lost from Jhajha (झाझा) in 1962. He was elected to Vidhan Sabha from Chakai (चकाई) in 1972. He was also related to Rajput stalwart Satyendra Narayan Sinha. In 1980, he won the parliamentary elections with an overwhelming majority from Banka (Lok Sabha cons*uency). In 1983, he was handpicked by Indira Gandhi to become the Chief Minister of Bihar. After the 1985 elections, he was asked by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to return to Government of India as Union Minister of Petroleum. He won a by-poll for Banka Lok Sabha seat in 1985. After his death in 1986, his widow Manorama Singh won the by-poll necessitated by his death. He was elected to the Parliament of India a total of 5 times.
A museum has also been opened in Jamui in Bihar in his name. It was established in 1983 by the state government to preserve the antiquities of the surrounding areas.
Contents
- 1 Political career
- 2 Freedom movement
- 3 Personal background
- 4 References
Political career
He was a gr*roots congressman, being connected to all workers at village level. He also served the Congress party at all levels from village to state level. He got elected to state *embly for first time in year 1952 when he was just 25 years. He got reelected again in the year 1957. After taking break for few years he contested elections and re-entered *embly in year 1969 and remained member till 1977. Though he contested Lok Sabha elections in 1977 as congressman, due to Janata waive he couldn't make it. However he got elected in 1980 defeating Madhu Limaye from Banka seat. He also acted in administrative capacity and became parliament secretary. He was later inducted into cabinet for various ministries such as Revenue, Industry, Minor Irrigation, Law and Public works. In 1983 Cabinet reshuffle he was made Minister of State for Energy.
Freedom movement
Chandrashekhar Singh was a part of the famous Young Turks of Bihar Congress during the independence movement along with Bindeshwari Dubey, Bhagwat Jha Azad, Abdul Gafoor, Satyendra Narayan Sinha, Kedar Pandey all future chief ministers and Sitaram Kesri, future national president of Indian National Congress.
Personal background
He also held a postgraduate degree in economics.
References
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- NLC India Limited
- Singareni Collieries Company
- Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation
- Coal controller organisation
- Commissioner of payments
- The Coking Coal Mines (Emergency Provisions) Ordinance
- Coking Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1972
- Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973
- Colliery Control Order, 2000
- Coal Mines (Conservation & Development) Act, 1974 and Coal Mines (Conservation & Development) Rules, 1975
- The Collection of Statistics Act, 1953 and the Collection of Statistics (Central) Rules, 1959
- Coal Bearing Areas (Acquisition & Development) Act, 1957
- Coal Mines Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1948
- Coal Mines Pension Scheme, 1998
- Mines and Minerals (Regulation & Development) Act, 1957
- Susheel *ar
- Inder Jit Singh
- Sumanta Chaudhuri
- Dr. Anil *ar Jain (in*bent)
- Biju Patnaik
- Vasant Sathe
- P. A. Sangma (MoS, IC)
- Ajit *ar Panja (MoS, IC)
- Jagdish Tytler (MoS, IC)
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- S. R. Bommai
- Kanti Singh
- Inder *ar Gujral
- Inder *ar Gujral
- Dilip Ray (MoS, IC)
- N. T. Shanmugam (MoS, IC)
- Syed Shahnawaz Hussain (MoS, IC)
- Ram Vilas Paswan
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- Lal Krishna Advani
- Uma Bharati
- Kariya Munda
- Mamata Banerjee
- Shibu Soren
- Manmohan Singh
- Shibu Soren
- Manmohan Singh
- Shibu Soren
- Manmohan Singh
- Shriprakash Jaiswal (MoS, IC)
- Piyush Goyal (MoS, IC)
- Pralhad Joshi (in*bent)
Natural G*chemes
- Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana
- Urja Ganga Gas Pipeline Project
- National Infrastructure Pipeline
- Strategic Petroleum Reserve (India)
- K D Tripathi
- M M Kutty (in*bent)
- Humayun Kabir
- O. V. Alagesan (MoS, IC)
- Asoka Mehta
- Kotha Raghuramaiah (MoS, IC)
- Triguna Sen
- Dajisaheb Chavan (MoS, IC)
- Prakash Chandra Sethi
- H. R. Gokhale
- Devakanta Barua
- Keshav Dev Malviya
- Morarji Desai
- H. N. Bahuguna
- Ravindra Varma
- T. A. Pai
- Aravinda Bala Pazhanoor
- Charan Singh
- S. N. Kacker
- Indira Gandhi
- Prakash Chandra Sethi
- Virendra Patil
- Prakash Chandra Sethi
- P Shiv Shankar
- Naval K Sharma (MoS, IC)
- Chandrashekhar Singh (MoS, IC)
- N. D. Tiwari
- Brahm Dutt (MoS, IC)
- V. P. Singh
- M. S. Gurupadaswamy
- Chandra Shekhar
- Satya Prakash Malaviya
- B. Shankaranand
- Satish Sharma (MoS, IC)
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- H. D. Deve Gowda
- I. K. Gujral
- Janeshwar Mishra
- Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy
- Ram Naik
- Mani Shankar Aiyar
- Murli Deora
- S. Jaipal Reddy
- M. Veerappa Moily
- Dharmendra Pradhan (MoS, IC till 03 September 2017) (in*bent)
- Chandrashekhar Singh (1985 - 1986)
- Dinsha Patel (2006-2009)
- Jitin Prasada (May 2009 - Jan 2011)
- R. P. N. Singh (19 Jan 2011 – 28 Oct 2012)
- Panabaka Lakshmi (28 Oct 2012 – 17 May 2014)
Atomic EnergyUniversities
- Homi Bhabha National Ins*ute
- Tata Ins*ute of Fundamental Research
- National Ins*ute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar
- National Board for Higher Mathematics
- Atomic Energy Education Society
- Tata Memorial Centre
- Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences
- Saha Ins*ute of Nuclear Physics
- Ins*ute of Physics
- Harish-Chandra Research Ins*ute
- Ins*ute of Mathematical Sciences
- Ins*ute for Plasma Research
- Dr. K.N.Vyas (in*bent)
- Jitendra Singh (in*bent)
- India–United States Civil Nuclear Agreement
- Opposition to the Indo-US civilian agreement in India
- India's three-stage nuclear power programme
- Nuclear Liability Act