Indian politician

Uma Shankar Dik* (12 January 1901 – 30 May 1991) was an Indian politician, cabinet minister and Governor of West Bengal and Governor of Karnataka.Born on 12 January 1901 at village Ugu of Unnao district, he got his education from Kanpur. Since his student life he joined the freedom movement and was the Secretary of the District Congress Committee Kanpur during the period when Sh. Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi was the President of the Committee.
He served the Country as the Home Minister, Health Minister and Governor of Karnataka & West Bengal. He also served as treasurer of All India Congress Committee, and Managing Director of *ociated Journals at Lucknow. He founded a Girls Intermediate College at his village Ugu in the memory of his mother.
He was awarded Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award in India in 1989, by the Government of India.

Contents

• 1 Early life and education
• 2 Career
• 3 Family
• 4 References

Early life and education

Born in Ugu in Unnao district (Unnao) of Uttar Pradesh state, to Ram Sarup and Shiv Pyari, he later studied at the Christ Church College, Kanpur.

Career

Uma Shankar Dik* started his political career when he joined the Indian freedom movement, during which he was imprisoned four times.

Post-Independence he remained close to Nehru and later sided with Indira Gandhi during the 1969 split in Indian National Congress. He joined the Indira Gandhi cabinet in 1971, thereafter he remained Minister for Works and Housing, Govt. of India, 1971-72 later given additional charge of Health and Family Planning, Minister for Home Affairs, 1973–74 and Minister for Shipping and Transport, 1975. He also remained Treasurer, All India Congress Committee (AICC), 1970-75.

He remained the Governor of Karnataka, 1976–77 and Governor of West Bengal 1984-1986.

He died at New Delhi on 30 May 1991 after a prolonged illness at the age of 90 years.

Family

His son Vinod Dik* was a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), who married Sheila Dik*, later Chief Minister of Delhi for three consecutive terms starting from 1998 until 2013. His grandson, Sandeep Dik*, was a member of parliament from East Delhi for Congress and granddaughter is Latika Syed.

References

Home Secretaries

• R. N. Banerjee
• H. V. R. Iyengar
• A. V. Pai
• B. N. Jha
• V. Vishwanathan
• L. P. Singh
• Govind Narain
• N. K. Mukherjee
• S. L. Khurana
• T. C. A. Srinivasavaradan
• S. M. H. Burney
• T. N. Chaturvedi
• M. M. K. Wali
• Prem *ar
• R. D. Pradhan
• C. G. Somiah
• J. A. Kalyankrishnan
• Shiromani Sharma
• Naresh Chandra
• R. K. Bhargava
• Madhav Godbole
• N. N. Vohra
• K. Padmanabhaiah
• Balmiki Prasad Singh
• Kamal Pande
• N. Gopalaswami
• Anil Baijal
• Dhirendra Singh
• Vinod *ar Duggal
• Gopal Krishna Pillai
• R. K. Singh
• Anil Goswami
• L. C. Goyal
• Rajiv Mehrishi
• Rajiv Gauba
• Ajay *ar Bhalla (in*bent)

Home Ministers

• Vallabhbhai Patel
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• C. Rajagopalachari
• Kailash Nath Katju
• Govind Ballabh Pant
• Lal Bahadur Shastri
• Gulzari Lal Nanda
• Indira Gandhi
• Yashwantrao Chavan
• Uma Shankar Dik*
• Kasu Brahmananda Reddy
• Charan Singh
• Morarji Desai
• Hirubhai M. Patel
• Zail Singh
• R. Venkataraman
• Prakash Chandra Sethi
• P. V. Narasimha Rao
• Shankarrao Chavan
• Buta Singh
• Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
• Chandra Shekhar
• Murli Manohar Joshi
• H. D. Deve Gowda
• Indrajit Gupta
• L. K. Advani
• Shivraj Patil
• P. Chidambaram
• Sushil*ar Shinde
• Rajnath Singh
• Amit Shah (in*bent)

Ministers of State
for Home Affairs

• Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh
• Kiren Rijiju
• G. Kishan Reddy (in*bent)