Bhagwat Jha Azad

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Bhagwat Jha Azad was chief minister of Bihar in India and a member of Lok Sabha.^[1] He was chief minister from 14 February 1988 to 10 March 1989.^[2] He was father of Kirti Azad, a Lok Sabha member of (BJP) and a former cricketer.

He represented Bhagalpur in the Lok Sabha for six terms. He was elected to the first Lok Sabha and then to the third, fourth, fifth, seventh and eighth Lok Sabha. He also served as the Union minister of state from 1967 to 1983 in the ministries of agriculture, education, labour and employment, supply and rehabilitation, civil aviation and food and civil supplies.

Azad was born at Kasba village at Mehrama in Godda district of undivided Bihar and now in Jharkhand on November 28, 1922. He completed his education from TNB Collegiate School and TNB College, Bhagalpur and Patna University. Azad took active part in the Quit India movement in 1942 and was hit with a bullet in his leg.

He died in 2011.

References

v t e Chief Ministers of Bihar

Sri Krishna Sinha Deep Narayan Singh Binodanand Jha K. B. Sahay Mahamaya Prasad Sinha Satish Prasad Singh B. P. Mandal Bhola Paswan Shastri Harihar Singh Daroga Prasad Rai Karpoori Thakur Kedar Pandey Abdul Ghafoor Jagannath Mishra Ram Sundar Das Chandrashekhar Singh Bindeshwari Dubey Bhagwat Jha Azad Satyendra Narayan Sinha Lalu Prasad Yadav Rabri Devi Nitish Kumar

Persondata
Name	Azad, Bhagwat Jha
Alternative names
Short description	Indian politician
Date of birth	1922
Place of birth	Bihar
Date of death	4 October 2011
Place of death

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