Arjun Singh Bhadoria

Arjun Singh Bhadauria
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office 1977-1980
Preceded by	Sri Shanker Tewari
Succeeded by	Ram Singh Shakya
In office 1967-1971
Preceded by	G.N. Dixit
Succeeded by	Sri Shanker Tewari
In office 1957-1962
Succeeded by	G.N. Dixit
Constituency	Etawah, Uttar Pradesh
Personal details
Born	10 May 1910 Etawah, U.P., India
Died	22 May 2004 Etawah, U.P., India
Political party	Janata Party
Other political affiliations	Samyukta Socialist Party
Spouse	Sarla Bhadoria
Source: [1]

Arjun Singh Bhadauria/Bhadoria was an Indian freedom fighter, progressive leader and politician. He led an underground resistance movement against British colonialism in central India in the 1940s. Arjun Singh Bhadauria was imprisoned multiple times for his political activism, both, before and after India's independence. He was known popularly by his sobriquet, "Commander Sahab" or "The Honorable Commander", a term of honor accorded to Arjun Singh Bhadauria by his life long comrades, Acharya Narendra Dev, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia and Jayprakash Narayan, in recognition of his leading role in the freedom struggle. Arjun Singh Bhadauria advanced farmers' and peasants' rights all through his political career, and had, in fact, merged his historically significant and politically crucial peasants and farmers led anti-imperialist movement in the Chambal region of central India with the emergent "Socialist Party of India", which broke with the Indian National Congress in the late 1940s under the leadership of Lohia, Narayan and Narendra Dev to advance a progressive agenda for India. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament from Etawah, Uttar Pradesh where he served three terms. In the mid-1970s, Arjun Singh Bhadauria, along with his wife Sarla Bhadauria, partnered with Jayprakash Narayan and other leaders in the anti-corruption and pro-democracy movement aimed against the then Congress government of Indira Gandhi, for which he spent 19 months in prison during the period of "Emergency" (1975–77). Arjun Singh Bhadauria passed away in 2004.[1][2][3]

References

1. Lok Sabha Debates. Lok Sabha Secretariat. 1967. pp. 86–. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
2. Christophe Jaffrelot (2003). India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. pp. 368–. ISBN 978-1-85065-398-1. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
3. The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who. 1970. p. 357. Retrieved 19 March 2023.

External links

• Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website

Bibliography

1. Neenv Ke Patthar (2 volumes), Samajvadi Prakashan. Author - Arjun Singh Bhadauria

2. Chambal Ke Mahanayak, National Book Trust, India. https://www.amazon.in/CHAMBAL-KE-MAHANAYAK-ARJUN-BHADORIA/dp/9354912621