Saturday, March 8, 2014

152. Dibakar,R.R. (1894-1990)


R.R. Diwakar (1894-1990) was an Indian author and politician from Karnataka. He was born in Karnatak in 1894. He began his career in 1916 as a Professor in English and became very close with M.K.Gandhi.
Diwakar was a member of the Indian National Congress and served as the President of the Karnataka PCC from 1930 to 1942. He became a member of the Constituent Assembly of India and the Provisional Parliament. He was the Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting from 1949 to 1952. Diwakar was elected as member of the Rajya Sabha in 1952 but resigned in a few months when was appointed theGovernor of Bihar. He served as Governor till 1957. In 1962 he was nominated to the Rajya Sabha where he served till 1968.
Diwakar was also the author of a number of books in English, Kannada and Hindi.

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