24th April is celebrated as the Birth Day of Late Hemvati Nandan
Bahuguna, the renowned political stalwart of his time. Though Bahugunaji
is not with us but his ideology, good deeds, pro-people achievements
and urge to keep the society intact and cohesive by maintaining the
secular credentials of the nation will always be in our minds whenever
we will remember him every year during
his birth and death anniversaries. I have been fortunate enough to be in
his company, midst and of course under his dashing and dynamic
leadership for more then a decade when I was a full timer in his parties
known as Congress For Democracy, Democratic Socialist Party and Dalit
Mazdoor Kisaan Party heading their Youth Wings in Delhi including Lok
Dal when he merged with Chaudhary Charan Singhji's Party in the last
phase of his life. Bahuguna who was a true secularist and believed
strongly in the decentralisation of the economic and political power for
the socio-economic upliftment and well being of the people living at
the lowest ebb of the society held various important positions in the
Congress Party and the successive governments that followed later on
after his annoyance with the Late Prime Minister of India Smt. Indira
Gandhi over the issue of the imposition of emergency during the 1977,
when Jai Prakash Narayan lead a movement to dethrone her . Bahuguna
always fought for the principles and sacrificed his important political
positions for maintaining those ideals and principles which he thought
were coming on the way of achieving the political power or the values he
actually stood for. He was the Chief Minister of UP in 1974-75,
Communication Minister during Indira's tenure and also lead many
ministries as Union Minister during Morarji Desai's PM ship as Minister
for Finance and Petroleum, Chemicals and Ferlilizer. He was also the
Secretary General of Congress and lead it to victory when he rejoined
Congress after getting invitation from Mrs. Gandhi to come out of it's
fold later on because of his differences with Sanjay Gandhi. He brought a
No confidence movement against the then Central government as well on
various important national issues of public concern. While being the
Chief Minister of UP he was credited for forming the first ever separate
Hill Development Board of Uttarakhand, thus laying for the first time
the concrete foundation of the would be separate Uttarakahnd State. Not a
single riot took place in UP during his Chief Ministership which
earlier used to be the place of regular Hindu Muslim riots or police
revolts. He most efficiently quelled the PAC revolt in UP for which he
was sent there as CM by Mrs. Gandhi. He gave red carpet welcome to JP
when he announced his visit to this largest state of the country. But on
seeing Bahuguna's behaviour and intelligence Mr. Jai Prakash Narayan
gave up the idea of organising massive movement in UP against Indira
Gandhi, which he planned earlier. Very few people know that the system
of Raza Iftara Parties that are massively held today in various nooks
and corners of the country after the Ramzaan Fasts by various political
parties to honour the Muslim brothers is also the invention of Late HN
Bahugunaji who was considered as a great secular leader by the entire
Muslim population of the country. Bahugunaji was definitely a genuine
Prime Minister material and had he come back alive from Houston, USA
after his second by-pass surgery of the heart he would have been the
Prime Minister of India not Vishwanath Pratap Singh b'cause the entire
left parties of the country including the like minded parties have
assured Bahuguna of their total unstinting support in advance after he
comes back to India with a sound and healthy heart. But destiny was not
prepared for it and Mr. Bahuguna met his last in Houston leaving his
millions of supporters is the state of shock, grief, disarray and
immense quandry. Let's remember this great soul on his Birth Anniversary
on 24th April and imbibe his ideals, principles and good doings to make
India stronger, cohesive and harmonially strong.
Sunil Negi
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