Ramgulam Chaudhary

Ramgulam Chaudhary, born in the state of Behar in 1902, participated in themovement for the independence of India as a member of the Congress Party and was admired by Mahatma Gandhi. He went to jail various times for participating in the freedom struggle. Vice president of the All India Depressed Class League, he participated in the historic Shimla round table conference and rejected the idea of creating a third state for depressed classes. This helped prevent division of the country into three parts, instead of two. In 1957 he was elected to the legislative assembly of Bihar. [http://www.eci.gov.in/SR_KeyHighLights/SE_1957/StatRep_Bihar_1957.pdf] He died in 1969 at Muzaffarpur.

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[http://www.eci.gov.in/SR_KeyHighLights/SE_1957/StatRep_Bihar_1957.pdf Election Results 1957]