| Name(s) |
Jivatram Bhagwandas
(J.B.) KRIPLANI |
| Date of
Birth |
November 11, 1888
- Hyderabad, Sindh (now in Pakistan), Undivided India. |
| Date of
Death |
March 19, 1982 |
|
Identity |
A Gandhian
Socialist, environmentalist, mystic and freedom fighter.
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- 1920s: He was involved in
the Non-Cooperation Movement of the early 1920s.
- 1928: He joined the All
India Congress Committee, and became its General Secretary
in 1928-29.
- 1946-to-1947: He also
served in the interim government of India (1946–1947) and
the Constituent Assembly of India.
- 1947: He was the president
of the Indian National Congress during the crucial period of
transfer of power.
- 1952: He was elected to the
Lok Sabha as a member of Praja Socialist Party.
- 1957: He was elected to the
Lok Sabha as a member of Praja Socialist Party.
- 1963: He was elected to the
Lok Sabha as a member of Praja Socialist Party.
- August 1963: He moved the
first-ever No confidence motion on the floor of the Lok
Sabha, immediately after the disastrous India-China War.
- 1967: He was elected to the
Lok Sabha as a member of Praja Socialist Party.
- June 26, 1975: When the
Emergency was declared by the then Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi, Kripalani was among the first of the
Opposition leaders to be arrested on the night of this day.
- 1982: In the film Gandhi by
Richard Attenborough, J.B. Kripalani was played by Indian
actor Anang Desai.
- November 11, 1989: A stamp
was issued on this day by the Indian Postal Department to
commemorate the 101st anniversary of his birth.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He is popularly known as Acharya Kripalani.
- He worked as a school teacher before joining the freedom
movement in the wake of Gandhi's return from South Africa.
- Kripalani was prominently involved over a decade in top
Congress party affairs, and in the organization of the Salt
Satyagraha and the Quit India Movement.
- During the election for the post of
the future Prime Minister of India held by the Congress
party, he had the second highest number of votes after
Sardar Patel. But both Sardar Patel and Acharya Kriplani
backed out on the insistence of Mahatma Gandhi to allow
Jawahar Lal Nehru to become the first Prime Minister of
India.
- His wife, Sucheta Kripalani, was also the first female
Chief Minister, in Uttar Pradesh.
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