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 governor of Orissa from 1990 to 1993, and a member of fourth and sixth Lok Sabha representing Amritsar and Gurdaspur parliamentary constituencies of Punjab during 1967-70 and 1977-79. He was also a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party.

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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