BABU JAGJIVAN RAM

April 6, 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to freedom fighter and former Deputy Prime Minister Babu Jagjivan Ram on his 112th birth anniversary.

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Jagjivan Ram (1908 – 1986), known popularly as Babuji, was an Indian independence activist and politician from Bihar.
He was instrumental in the foundation of the All India Depressed Classes League, an organisation dedicated to attaining equality for untouchables, in 1935.
In 1946, he became the youngest minister in Jawaharlal Nehru's interim government, the first cabinet of India as a Labour Minister.
He was also a member of the Constituent Assembly of India, where he ensured that social justice was enshrined in the Constitution.
He was the Defence Minister of India during the Indo-Pak war of 1971, which resulted in the creation of Bangladesh.
He left Congress in 1977 and joined the Janata Party alliance, along with his Congress for Democracy. He later served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India (1977–79).
To propagate his ideologies, the 'Babu Jagjivan Ram National Foundation', has been set up by Ministry of Social Justice, Govt. of India in Delhi.