Ravindra Varma
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Ravindra Varma (9 April 1925 – 10 October 2006) was an Indian politician who served as the Minister for Labour and Parliamentary Affairs in the Morarji Desai Ministry in India from 1977 to 1979.
Politics
He entered active politics in 1942. He plunged into the vortex of the freedom struggle while studying at the Christian College in Chennai. He was founder-president of the Indian Student Congress and the World Youth Assembly.{{Citation needed|date= April 2022}}
He was first elected to the Lok Sabha from Thiruvalla in Kerala in 1962 on a Congress ticket.
When Congress split in 1969, he stayed on as the General Secretary of Congress (Organisation) founding the organization along with Morarji Desai, Nijalingappa and Kamaraj.{{Citation needed|date= April 2022}}
He was politically active in resisting the Emergency (1975–77) and organized underground cells. He was next elected in 1977 from Ranchi in Bihar as a Janata Party candidate. He represented Mumbai North in 7th Lok Sabha from 1980 to 1985.{{Citation needed|date= April 2022}}
He had been the Chairman of the Gandhi Peace Foundation since the death of its founder-chairman Diwakar in 1989. He was the founder-chairman of the Gandhi Vichar Parishad at Wardha.{{Citation needed|date= April 2022}}
He was also Chancellor of the Gujarat Vidyapeeth.{{Citation needed|date= April 2022}}
Personal life
Varma belonged to the royal family in Mavelikkara in southern Kerala. He died in 2006, aged 81.[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/Ravindra-Varma-dead/article15730094.ece Ravindra Varma dead] He is survived by his younger son Harshvardhan Varma. His elder son Goutham and wife Mangala died within a span of a few months in 2015.{{Citation needed|date= April 2022}}
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071001061923/http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/11/stories/2006101100341400.htm]
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