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Jawahar Lal Nehru and Chaudhary Brahm Prakash Yadav
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Chaudhary
Brahm Prakash Yadav the first Chief Minister of New Delhi
(1952-55), was born in Najafgarh.
Najafgarh is
located at the outskirts of the southwestern part of Delhi, India. It
has a mixture of rural and urban population from Delhi and Haryana.
Chaudhary
Brahm Prakash (1918–1993)
played an important role in the Individual Satyagraha Movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi in 1940 and was among the leaders of
the ‘underground’ activities in Delhi during the ‘Quit India’ movement. He was
imprisoned many times during the freedom struggle. He was born in Jaffarpur Kalan a village in West Delhi.
In the
post-independence era, Prakash, a member of India's Yadav community,served as Minister in charge
of Planning and Development as well as the first Chief Minister of Delhi from 1952-55. His stints in the Parliament twice won
him accolades as an able parliamentarian. He also made noteworthy contributions
as the Union Cabinet Minister for Food, Agriculture, Irrigation and
Cooperatives.
The cause of
depressed sections of the society, rural development and empowerment of the
weaker sections were issues which were very close to the heart of Chaudhary
Brahm Prakash. He was quick to realise the potential of cooperative societies
in mitigating the hardships of the village folks. As early as in 1945, he
started organising village and agriculture cooperatives. He was also a
proponent of the Panchayati Raj institutions. He organised the National Union
of Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Minorities in 1977
to work for the welfare of these weaker sections
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