Mani Ram Bagri
Mani Ram Bagri was a politician from India. He served three terms in the Indian Parliament. Mr. Bagri is a subject of various folklores in the states of Haryana, Rajasthan, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. He belonged to the league of Socialists like Dr. Rammanohar Lohia and Jayaprakash Narayan. Known widely throughout North India during his tenure as the de facto Leader Of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Bagri is widely considered to be one of the most prolific Socialist leaders of his time. He was party to the nations international visits to the USSR as well as the Warsaw Pact socialist republics in the 1960s. He is also notable for being the first speaker to address the International Parliamentary Conference in Hindi, his mother tongue.
Mani Ram Bagri was born at Ban Mandori, Hissar District, Haryana onJanuary 1920. He participated in various national movement at very young age and joined the Socialist movement led by Acharya Narendra Deva, Jayaprakash Narayan and Dr Rammanohar Lohia. Little is documented about his formative years, as he did not graduate from higherlevel institutions. During his twenties, he developed a close friendship with Lohia, and the two remained allies both politically and personally, for the rest of their lives.
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