Chaturanan Mishra

Chaturanan Mishra
Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare,
Government of India
In office
10 July 1996 – 19 March 1998
Prime MinisterH. D. Deve Gowda
I. K. Gujral
Preceded byH. D. Deve Gowda
Succeeded byAtal Bihari Vajpayee
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
1996–1998
Preceded byBhogendra Jha
Succeeded byShakeel Ahmad
ConstituencyMadhubani
Member of Parliament of Rajya Sabha for Bihar
In office
1980–1996
Personal details
Born7 April 1925
Nahar, Madhubani District, Bihar
DiedJuly 2, 2011(2011-07-02) (aged 86)
NationalityIndian
Political partyCommunist Party of India
OccupationPolitician
Indian freedom fighter

Chaturanan Mishra (7 April 1925 – 2 July 2011)[1] was an Indian politician and trade unionist. Mishra, who was born in Nahar, Madhubani District,[2] was a key leader of the Communist Party of India in Bihar, and served as the Agriculture Minister of India in the United Front government.