Govind Ballabh Pant

Govind Ballabh Pant 

Bharat Ratan awardee (10 September 1887 – 7 March 1961) was an Indian freedom fighter and one of the architects of modern India.

Pant was born on #10_September1887 in Khoont village on the slopes of Shyahi Devi hill near Almora. He was born in a Karhade #Brahmin_family that had migrated from the present day Western Maharashtra many generations prior to his birth.

 Alongside Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabh Bhai Patel, Pant was a key figure in the movement for India's Independence and later a pivotal figure in the Indian Government.

 He was one of the foremost political leaders of Uttar Pradesh (then known as United Provinces) and a key player in the unsuccessful movement to establish Hindi as the national language of Indian Union.

Today, several Indian hospitals, dams, educational institutions and foundations bear his name. Pant received India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1957.

He Known as an extremely capable lawyer,

Due to this he was was appointed by the Congress party to initially represent Ramprasad Bismill, Ashfaqulla Khan and other revolutionaries involved in the Kakori case in the mid 1920s

In 1930, he was arrested and imprisoned for several weeks for organising a Salt March inspired by Gandhi's earlier actions.

1933, he was arrested along with Harsh Dev Bahuguna (Gandhi of Choukot) and imprisoned for seven months for attending a session of the then-banned provincial Congress. 

In 1935, the ban was rescinded, and Pant joined the new Legislative Council.

During the Second World War, Pant acted as the tiebreaker between Gandhi's faction, which advocated supporting the British Crown in their war effort, and Subhas Chandra Bose's faction, -

-which advocated taking advantage of the situation to expel the British Raj by all means necessary. In 1934, the Congress ended its boycott of the legislatures and put up candidates, and Pant was elected to the Central Legislative Assembly 

Later, he became deputy leader of the Congress party in the Assembly.In 1940, Pant was arrested and imprisoned for helping organise the Satyagraha movement. 

In 1942 he was arrested again, this time for signing the Quit India resolution, and spent three years in Ahmednagar Fort along with other members of the Congress working committee until March 1945, at which point Nehru pleaded successfully for Pant's release, on grounds of failing health.

#Uniter provinces

Pant took over as the Chief Minister of the United Provinces from 1937 to 1939.

In 1945, the British Labour government ordered new elections to the Provincial legislatures.The Congress won a majority in the 1946 elections in the United Provinces and Pant was again the Premier, continuing even after India's independence in 1947.

His judicious reforms and stable governance in the Uttar Pradesh stabilised the economic condition of the most populous State of India. Among his achievements in that position was the abolition of the zamindari system. 

Also he passed the Hindu Code Bill and made monogamy compulsory for Hindu men and gave the Hindu women the rights of divorce and inheritance to ancestral property. Pant moved from Lucknow to New Delhi to be sworn in as Cabinet Minister without Portfolio in the Union Cabinet on 3 January 1955.

Pant served as #UnionHomeMinister from 1955 to 1961. Pant was appointed Minister of Home Affairs in the Union Cabinet on 10 January 1955 in New Delhi by Jawaharlal Nehru.

 As Home Minister, his chief achievement was the re-organisation of States along linguistic lines. He was also responsible for the establishment of Hindi as an official language of the central government and a few states.

During his tenure as the #HomeMinister, Pant was awarded the #BharatRatna. on 26 January 1957.