N. G. Ranga

Gogineni Ranga nayukulu (Telugu: గోగినేని రంగ నాయకులు ) , better known as N. G. Ranga (Telugu: ఎన్. జీ. రంగా) (7 November 1900 – 9 June 1995), was an Indian freedom fighter, parliamentarian, and kisan (farmer) leader. He was an exponent of the peasant philosophy, and considered the father of the Indian Peasant Movement after Swami Sahajanand Saraswati.^[1]

Early life

Ranga was born in Nidubrolu village in Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh. He went to school in his native village, and graduated from the Andhra-Christian College, Guntur. He received a B.Litt. in Economics from the University of Oxford in 1926. On his return to India, he took up teaching as Professor of Economics at Pachaiyappa's College, Madras (Chennai).

Political career

Lok Sabha	Period	Constituency	Party
2nd Lok Sabha	1957-1962	Tenali	Congress Party
3rd Lok Sabha	1962-1967	Chittoor	Swatantra Party
4th Lok Sabha	1967-1970	Srikakulam	Swatantra Party
7th Lok Sabha	1980-1984	Guntur	Congress (I)
8th Lok Sabha	1984-1989	Guntur	Congress (I)
9th Lok Sabha	1989-1991	Guntur	Congress (I)

Ranga joined the freedom movement inspired by Gandhi's clarion call in 1930. He led the ryot agitation in 1933. Three years later, he launched the Kisan Congress party. He held historic discussions with Gandhiji on the demand for a rythu-coolie state. He wrote a book, Bapu Blesses regarding his discussions with Gandhi..

Ranga was one of the founders of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers. He represented India at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (Copenhagen) in 1946, the International Labour Organisation (San Francisco) in 1948, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (Ottawa) in 1952, the International Peasant Union (New York) in 1954 and the Asian Congress for World Government (Tokyo) in 1955.

He quit the Congress Party and founded the Bharat Krishikar Lok Party and the Swatantra Party, along with Rajaji who was a trenchant critic of the cooperative farming idea. Ranga became the founder-president of the Swatantra Party and held that post for a decade. In the general elections held in 1962, the party won 25 seats and emerged as a strong Opposition. He rejoined the Congress (I) in 1972.

Ranga served the Indian Parliament for six decades from 1930 to 1991.

Honours

• Agricultural University of Andhra Pradesh is named in his honour and memory as Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University.^[2]

• His name found a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as a Parliamentarian with fifty years of service.^{[citation needed]}

• The N.G. Ranga Farmer Award for Diversified Agriculture was instituted by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research in 2001.

• A commemorative postage stamp was released by Government of India in 2001.^[3]

• He was awarded Padma Vibhushan by the President of India in 1991.[1]

References

1. ^ Parliamentary career: http://rajyasabha.nic.in/photo/princets/p16.html
2. ^ :: Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University ::>> Home << ::
3. ^ Indian Postage Stamp of N.G.Ranga

External links

• http://loksabha.nic.in/

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Name	Ranga, N. G.
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Date of birth	1901
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Date of death	1995
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