Yagya Dutt Sharma

Yagya Dutt Sharma (October 21, 1922, Takhatgarh village, Ropar district, Punjab, India - July 4, 1996, New Delhi) was an Indian politician, a member of fourth and sixth Lok Sabha representing Amritsar and Gurdaspur parliamentary constituencies in Punjab during 1967-70 and 1977-79. He was also a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the Governor of Odisha from 1990 to 1993.^{[1] [2]}

An ayurvedic physician by profession, he worked to improve indigenous system of medicine and to promote the ayurvedic system of medicine. During the famines of 1943 in Bengal and Kangra-Kula valley in 1945-46, he along with a team of doctors from Punjab provided relief to the famine-stricken people.

He also worked for the relief and rehabilitation of refugees in 1947 and rendered medical assistance to the sick.

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