The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, paid floral tributes to Shri R. Venkataraman, former President of India, on his birth anniversary.
About:
Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910 – 2009) was an Indian lawyer, Indian independence activist and politician who served as a Union Minister and as the eighth President of India.
Freedom Movement:
He actively participated in the 'Quit India Movement of 1942', which resulted in his detention for two years under the British Government's Defence of India Rules.
He was appointed as the member of the Constituent Assembly and the provisional cabinet.
Trade Unions:
On his release from prison in 1944, Shri Venkataraman took up the Organisation of the Labour Section of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee.
He founded, in 1949, the Labour Law Journal which publishes important decisions pertaining to labour and is an acknowledged specialist publication.
Political career:
He was elected to the Lok Sabha four times. He also served as a State minister under K. Kamaraj and M. Bhaktavatsalam.
In 1977, Shri Venkataraman was elected to the Lok Sabha and served as Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee.
In 1980, he was re-elected to the Lok Sabha and was appointed Union Minister of Finance in the Government headed by Indira Gandhi.
He was later appointed Union Minister of Defence. As a defence Minister he initiated India's first missile programme, named Integrated Guided Missile Development Program, and appointed Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam as the programme head.
He was also a Member of the Union Planning Commission from 1967 till 1971.
N. Committees and Conferences:
He was a Member, United Nations Administrative Tribunal from 1955 to 1979 and was its President from 1968 to 1979.
He is the recipient of a Souvenir from the Secretary-General of the United Nations for distinguished service as President of the U.N. Administrative Tribunal.
Vice-president of India: He served as the 7th Vice-President of India from 1984 till 1987.
President of India: He served as the 8th President of India from 1987 till 1992.
During his five-year term, he worked with four prime ministers, and appointed three of them: V P Singh, Chandra Shekhar and P V Narasimha Rao.
His tenure saw the advent of coalition politics in India.
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