VERMA UPENDRA NATH Biography

VERMA, SHRI UPENDRA NATH

[J.D. – Chatra (Bihar)]

1958-87

1967 & 1977

1989

19 Jan., 1990 to June, 1990

21 April, 1990 to 10 Nov., 1990

1991

23rd August, 1921

Jhamman Bigha in Distt. Jahartabad (Bihar)

Married in March 1937

Smt. Girija Kumari Verma

Three sons

M.A.,

Educated at Kashi Hindu Vishwavidyalaya,
Banaras (Uttar Pradesh)

Political and Social Worker and Journalist

Janakpur, P.O. Buniyadganj, Distt.
Gaya-823003 (Bihar) Tel. 20658, 20768

34, Aurangzeb Road, New Delhi-110011. Tel,
3792495

State President, Socialist Party, Praja
Socialist Party, Samyukta Socialist Party, Lok Dal, Janata Party, Bihar

Member, Bihar Legislative Assembly

Elected to Lok Sabha (Ninth)

Member, Committee on Subordinate
Legislation

Union Minister or State, Rural Development

Re-elected to Lok Sabha (Tenth)}

"Anna Sankat", "Khet
Mazdooron Ka Sawat", "Bihar Mein Savinaya Awagya",
"Bihar Mein Madhyavadhi Chunav", "Cheeni Hamle Ka Mukabila",
"Apani Lathi Apana Raj" (all in Hindi)

Editor, ‘Mook Awaj’, a Hindi Weekly
published from Gaya since 1980

Struggle against superstitions, ostentation
in marriages and socio-economic disparities, construction of schools and
colleges

Visiting remote areas, jungles and hills;
writing on socio-economic conditions of hill areas

Sports, social service and journalism

Participation in sports during student career

Burma; Delegate 10 Asian Socialist
Conference at Rangoon

President, Employees Association of
Telephones, Post Offices and Railways Mail Service, Gaya; President, Coal
Workers’ Union, Sayaldeeh, Hazarihagh, Bihar; Arrested 14 times during
freedom movement and after freedom in connection with mass agitation and
movement.