Anantram Jaiswal (1 April 1924 - 7 January 2015) was an Indian politician and was Member of

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of India. He was a member of the 6th Lok Sabha and was also a member of the

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (Hindi: ''Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha'') is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Uttar Pradesh. There are 403 seats in the house filled by direct election using a single-member first-past-the- ...

. Jaiswal represented the

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constituency of

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and was a member of the

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political party.

Early life and education

Anantram Jaiswal was born in village Chandwara,

Barabanki Barabanki is a city and a municipal board in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is administrative headquarters of Barabanki district. The city is about 30 km east of Lucknow, the state capital. It has a population of 146,831 with a dens ...

in the state of

. He attended the Government Inter College in the city of

and subsequently attained BA &

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degrees Jaiswal worked as an advocate prior to joining politics.

Political career

Anantram Jaiswal entered active politics in the 1950s. Although he was a member of the

, he was previously associated with three other political parties; viz

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and

Bharatiya Lok Dal Bharatiya Lok Dal (English: Indian Peoples' Party) was a political party in India. The BLD or simply BL was formed at the end of 1974 through the fusion of seven parties opposed to the rule of Indira Gandhi, including the Swatantra Party, th ...

. Whilst with

, he became a member

for two terms and was also Leader of Samyukta Socialist Party in the Assembly from 1969 to 1974. Jaiswal joined the

in the mid 1970s. Jaiswal was a most senior leader of

and also was a

State President of

Jaiswal held several key posts and was also a Minister & State President in the

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, He had represented many leaders like

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Imprisonment

Between the 1960s–1970s, Jaiswal was imprisoned five times on various counts. Some grounds of imprisonment were participating in campaigns for removal of statues of British rulers, price rise, for grant of fair wages and clearness allowance to the government servants and teachers, for redistribution of land to the landless etc. In 1975, he was also detained for 19 months for Maintenance of Internal Security Act.

Posts held

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Early life and education

Political career

Imprisonment

Posts held

See also

References