Preceded by Bindeshwari Dubey Children Kirti Azad Role Kirti Azad's father | Name Bhagwat Azad Constituency Bihar | |
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Succeeded by Satyendra Narayan Sinha Died October 4, 2011, Bhagalpur People also search for Kirti Azad, Surya Azad, Poonam Azad | ||
Grandchildren Surya Azad, Somya Azad | ||
Bhagwat Jha Azad was chief minister of Bihar in India and a member of Lok Sabha. He was chief minister from 14 February 1988 to 10 March 1989. He was father of Kirti Azad, a Lok Sabha member of (BJP) and a former cricketer.
He represented Bhagalpur in the Lok Sabha for six terms. He was elected to the first Lok Sabha and then to the third, fourth, fifth, seventh and eighth Lok Sabha. He also served as a Union minister of state from 1967 to 1983 in the ministries of agriculture, education, labour and employment, supply and rehabilitation, civil aviation and food and civil supplies.
Azad was born at Kasba village at Mehrama in Godda district of undivided Bihar and now in Jharkhand on 28 November 1922. He completed his education from TNB Collegiate School and TNB College, Bhagalpur and Patna University. Azad took active part in the Quit India movement in 1942 and was hit with a bullet in his leg. He was arrested several times by British.
He died in 2011.
Quit India Movement
Pandey was a part of the famous Young Turks of Bihar Congress during the independence movement along with Bindeshwari Dubey, Abdul Gafoor, Chandrashekhar Singh, Satyendra Narayan Sinha, Kedar Pandey all future chief ministers and Sitaram Kesri, future national president of Indian National Congress.