Mahant Avaidyanath 1.10.2015

Mahant Avaidyanath (28 May 1921 – 12 September 2014) was a Hindu leader and politician.  

He was the Mahant (chief priest) of Gorakhnath Temple. He played an important role in Ram Janmabhoomi movement.  

Babu Banarasi Das 31.12.2013

Banarasi Das, popularly known as Babu Banarasi Das (1912-1985) was an Indian politician and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was from Janata Party.

Beant Singh 17.12.2013

Beant Singh (19 February 1922 - 31 August 1995) was a politician and the Chief Minister of Punjab from 1992 to 1995. He was a member of Indian National Congress. He was killed in a car bombing, in retaliation for the alleged human rights violations during the anti-insurgency operations in Punjab.

Beant Singh was assassinated in a bomb blast at the secretariat complex in Chandigarh on August 31, 1995. The blast claimed the lives of 17 others including 3 Indian commandos. Beant Singh was accompanied by his close friend Ranjodh Singh Mann on the day of assassination. Dilawar Singh Jaisinghvala of Babbar Khalsa International acted as the suicide bomber; later, the backup bomber Balwant Singh Rajoana was also convicted for the killing.

Lala Jagat Narain 9.9.2013

Lala Jagat Narain (31 May 1899 − 9 September 1981) was the founder of the Hind Samachar group. Lala Jagat Narain, a Chopra Khatri and Congress Party leader, was born at Wazirabad, Gujranwala District (now in Pakistan) in 1899. He graduated from D.A.V. College, Lahore in 1919, and joined the Law College, Lahore. He left his studies in 1920 at the call of Mahatma Gandhi to join the non-co-operation movement. He was sentenced in two and a half years imprisonment, in jail he acted as Lala Lajpat Rai's Personal Secretary. In 1924 he became the editor of Bhai Parmanand's Weekly Hindi Paper Akashvani. He participated in all the Satyagraha movement and was in jail for about nine years on different occasions. His wife was in jail for six months. His eldest son, Ramesh Chandra, was arrested during the Quit India movement.

Narain was President of the Lahore City Congress Committee for seven years, leader of the Congress Party in the Lahore Corporation, a member of the Punjab Provincial Congress Committee for more than thirty years and member of the All-India Congress Committee for about 30 years.

Raj Bahadur 21.8.2013

Raj Bahadur was a leader of Indian National Congress and a minister in the Indian government.

Chelat Achutha Menon 13.1.2013

Chelat Achutha Menon (13 January 1913 – 16 August 1991) was the Chief Minister of Kerala state for two terms. The first term was from 1 November 1969 to 1 August 1970 and the second 4 October 1970 to 25 March 1977. He was instrumental in starting number of institutions and development projects in Kerala. Achutha Menon was the only politician who adorned the chief minister ship of Kerala for two consecutive terms. He led the then United Front to a thumping electoral victory in Kerala when Congress party was routed in elections in other parts of India.

Shyama Charan Shukla 9.3.2012

Shyama Charan Shukla (27 February 1925 Raipur, Chhattisgarh — 14 February 2007 Raipur, Chhattisgarh) veteran Indian National Congress leader and served three times as Chief Minister of undivided Madhya Pradesh.

Vasantdada Patil 1.3.2012

Vasantdada Patil (13 November 1917 – 1 March 1989) was an Indian politician from Sangli, Maharashtra. He was known as the first modern Maratha strongman and first mass leader in Maharashtra's politics.

He was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 17 May 1977 to 18 July 1978 and again from 2 February 1983 to 1 June 1985. He also served as Governor of Rajasthan from 1985 to 1987.

Madan Mohan Malaviya 27.12.2011

Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861–1946) was an Indian educationist and politician notable for his role in the Indian independence movement and as the two time president of Indian National Congress. He was respectfully addressed as Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya and also addressed as 'Mahamana'.

Malaviya is most remembered as the founder of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) at Varanasi in 1916, which was created under the B.H.U. Act, 1915. The largest residential university in Asia and one of the largest in the world, having over 35,000 students across arts, sciences, engineering, medical, agriculture, performing arts, law and technology. Malaviya was Vice Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University from 1919–1938.

Dr Madhav Shrihari Aney 29.8.2011

Dr Madhav Shrihari Aney (29 August 1880, Wani - 26 January 1968) was an Indian politician. He was one of the founders of the Congress Nationalist Party. He was one of the eminent disciples of Lokmanya Tilak.

After Indian independence, Dr. Aney was the Governor of Bihar from 12 January 1948 to 14 June 1952. He died on 26 January 1968 evening, the very day he was honored with Padma Vibhushan. In 1973, he was posthumously honored with the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit for his Shritilakayashornava (1971), a Sanskrit biography of Bal Gangadhar Tilak.

Kasturiranga Santhanam 25.8.2011

Kasturiranga Santhanam (1895 – February 28, 1980), also known as Kumitithadai Santhanam, was an Indian politician. He was a conservative Iyengar from Tamil Nadu and acquired the appellation 'Pandit' for his erudition.

Kasu Brahmananda Reddy 28.7.2011

Kasu Brahmananda Reddy (28 July 1909 – 20 May 1994 at Hyderabad) was the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India from 29 February 1964 to 30 September 1971. On 3 June 1977, he was elected president of the Indian National Congress.

Vitthal Sakharam Page 21.7.2011

Vitthal Sakharam Page was born on 21^st July 1910 at Bagani in Satara District of Maharashtra. He took part in the freedom movement and underwent Imprisonment.

He was elected to the Bombay legislative Council successively in 1952 and 1954 and to the Maharashtra Legislative council In 1960,1966. and 1972 and was its Chairman from 1960 to 1978. During this period he was also Joint President of the Maharashtra Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. His vast knowledge and experience in the field of Parliamentary practice was effectively utilised by the Union Government.

Subhadra Joshi 23.3.2011

Subhadra Joshi (née Datta) (23 March 1919 – 30 October 2003) was a noted Indian freedom activist, politician and parliamentarian from Indian National Congress. She took part in the 1942 Quit India movement, and later remained the president of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC). She belonged to a well known family in Sialkot (now in Pakistan). Her father V.N Datta was a police officer with the Jaipur State and a cousin, Krishnan Gopal Datta was an active Congressman in Punjab.

V. Venkatasubba Reddiar 11.2.2011

V. Venkatasubba Reddiar, also known as V. Venkatasubha Reddiar, was the second and the fourth Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Pondicherry (Puducherry). He was the first Indian Chief Minister of Puducherry. He was born in a wealthy agricultural family at Madukkarai, Pondicherry. His father Vaithilinga Reddiar was the Mayor of Nettapakkam commune during French rule. His son V. Vaithilingam was also the chief minister of Pondichherry.

V. Subbiah 7.2.2011

V. Subbiah (7 February 1911 – 1993) was an Indian communist politician from Pondicherry (now Puducherry). Subbiah was the secretary of the Communist Party of French India. He is regarded as the founder of the trade union movement in the union territory. Subbiah was one of the 'Tamrapatra awardees', awarded the decoration for their role in the Indian freedom struggle.

Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan 22.12.2010

Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan (12 March 1913 – 25 November 1984) was the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra after the division of Bombay State and the fifth Deputy Prime Minister of India. He was a strong Congress leader, co-operative leader, social activist and writer. He was popularly known as Leader of Common People. He advocated social democracy in his speeches and articles and was instrumental in establishing co-operatives in Maharashtra for the betterment of the farmers.

Chidambaram Subramaniam 28.11.2010

Chidambaram Subramaniam (commonly known as CS) (30 January 1910 – 7 November 2000), was an Indian politician and Independence activist. He served as Minister of Finance and Minister of Defence in the union cabinet. He later served as the Governor of Maharashtra. As the Minister for Food and Agriculture, he ushered the Indian Green Revolution, an era of self-sufficiency in food production along with M. S. Swaminathan, B. Sivaraman and Norman E. Borlaug.

K. A. P. Viswanatham Pillai

K. A. P. Viswanatham Pillai (10 November 1899 – 19 December 1994) was a Tamil scholar, orator and social activist. Despite having no formal education he developed an interest towards the Tamil literature and Siddha medicine and learned them by himself. His father Periyanna and his elder brother Krishnan and Arumugam living as a joint family. They also doing a joint venture business (tobacco) with the name of K.A.P. That precedes Viswanathan as K.A.P Viswanathan. He also took part in politics and was an active member of Justice Party. He became the first General Secretary of the party, a position which he continued to hold till 1940 after which C. N. Annadurai took over. He also took part in the Anti-Hindi agitation of 1937–40 and was imprisoned. Viswanatham was also instrumental in launching the Tamil University at Thanjavur.

Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy 2.9.2010

Yeduguri Sandinti Rajasekhara Reddy (8 July 1949 – 2 September 2009), popularly known as YSR, was a two-time Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, serving from 2004 to 2009.