Anugrah Narayan Sinha

Anugrah Narayan Singh
1st Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar and Finance Minister of Bihar
In office
2 April 1946 – 5 July 1957
Chief MinisterSri Krishna Sinha
Preceded byPosition Created
Succeeded byVacant
Member Of Constituent Assembly
In office
9 December 1946 – 26 January 1950
Preceded byPost Created
Succeeded byPost Abolished
ConstituencyAurangabad
Deputy Premier and Finance Minister of Bihar Province
In office
20 July 1937 – 31 October 1939
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byGovernor's rule
Member Central Legislative Council
In office
1926–1930
Governor GeneralThe Earl of Halifax
Preceded byMaharaja Rameshwar Singh
Succeeded byVacant
Member Central Legislative Assembly
In office
1923–1926
Governor GeneralThe Earl of Reading
Preceded byAmbika Prasad Sinha
Succeeded byBadri Lal Rastogi
Personal details
Born(1887-06-18)18 June 1887
Poiwan, Bengal Presidency, British India
(present-day Bihar, India)
Died5 July 1957(1957-07-05) (aged 70)
Patna, Bihar, India
Political partyIndian National Congress
Children2
Alma mater
OccupationLawyer
Nationalist
Statesman
Educationist
Administrator
NicknameBihar Vibhuti
MERAY SANSMARAN
As of 12 July, 2006
Source: [1]

Anugrah Narayan Sinha (18 June 1887 – 5 July 1957), known as Bihar Vibhuti, was an Indian nationalist statesman, participant in Champaran Satyagraha, Gandhian & one[1] of the architects of modern Bihar, who was the first Deputy Chief Minister[2] and the Finance Minister of the Indian state of Bihar (1946–1957).[3] He was also a Member of the Constituent Assembly of India, which was elected to write the Constitution of India and served in its first Parliament as an independent nation.[4] He also held a range of portfolios including Labour, Local Self Government, Public Works, Supply & Price Control, Health and Agriculture.[5] A.N. Sinha, affectionately called Anugrah Babu, was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi[6] during the freedom movement and worked with Bihar Kesari Sri Krishna Sinha to lead the Gandhian movement in Bihar.[7] One of the leading nationalists in the Indian independence movement from Bihar after Dr Rajendra Prasad, he was elected as the Congress Party[8] deputy leader in the state assembly to assume office as the first Deputy Chief Minister cum Finance Minister of independent Bihar, and re-elected when the Congress Party won Bihar's first[9] general election with a massive mandate in 1952.

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  2. ^ "Goodbye to good life for heirloom".
  3. ^ "Members of the Constituent Assembly Bihar". Parliament of India. Retrieved 20 May 2005.
  4. ^ Dr. Rajendra Prasad's Letters (1984). First Finance cum Labour Minister. Rajendra Prasad's archive. p. 123. ISBN 9788170230021.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference kamat was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "SATYAGRAHA LABORATORIES OF MAHATMA GANDHI". aicc.org.in. Archived from the original on 6 December 2006. Retrieved 8 December 2006.
  7. ^ "Great freedom Fighters". Kamat's archive. Archived from the original on 20 February 2006. Retrieved 25 February 2006.
  8. ^ Shankar Dayal Singh (1994). Surabhita smr̥tiyāṃ. Prabhāta Prakāśana. pp. 403–. ISBN 978-81-7315-034-0.
  9. ^ Shree Shankar Sharan (13 December 2005). "The Better Man Has Won". India Rights Online. Archived from the original on 27 May 2013.