Chaturanan Mishra was an Indian politician and trade unionist.
12 Facts About Chaturanan Mishra
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Chaturanan Mishra contested the Giridih seat in the 1962 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, finishing second with 6,379 votes.
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Chaturanan Mishra joined the National Council of the Communist Party of India in 1964.
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Chaturanan Mishra became the president of the Bihar State Committee of the All India Trade Union Congress.
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Chaturanan Mishra led the CPI faction in the Legislative Assembly for ten years.
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Chaturanan Mishra served as president of the World Miners Association for a period.
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Chaturanan Mishra contested the Hazaribagh seat in the 1977 Lok Sabha election.
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Chaturanan Mishra was defeated by Urmila Devi of the Congress in a 1981 by-election.
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Chaturanan Mishra's candidature had been supported by the CPI, RSP and Lok Dal.
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Chaturanan Mishra was elected to the Lok Sabha in the 1996 election from the Madhubani constituency with 282,194 votes.
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Chaturanan Mishra was one of the two first communist Union Ministers in Indian history.
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Chaturanan Mishra died in New Delhi at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences at the age of 86.