- Har Govind Pant
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Har Govind Vallabh Pant was a freedom fighter and founder of the "Kumoun Parishad" political group in 1915. He was elected deputy speaker of the United Provinces legislature on 4 January 1951.
A child was born to Anandi Devi and Pt Dharma Nand Pant on 19 May 1885 and they named him Har Govind. When the infant was being brought up in the cool surroundings of himalayas,Indian Nationalism was taken root in the minds of educated Indian people which had revolutionary potentialities. Har Govind Pant got his primary education in a village school for which he had to walk a distance of three miles every day.He passed his intermediate examination in the first division in 1905 from Govt college of Almora.He graduated from Muir Central College Allahabad and subsequently got his L.L.B. degree from School of Law,Allahabad in the year 1909.
Har Govind Pant Started his practice in the year 1910 at Ranikhet. He contributed lavishly for starting local papers with nationalistic ideas so that the masses could be educated and informed about political awakening in the country and he himself started Kumoan Parishad(first political organization in uttrakhand).
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