Harekrushna Mahtab was popularly known by the sobriquet "Utkal Keshari".
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23 Facts About Harekrushna Mahtab
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Harekrushna Mahtab was born to Krushna Charan Das and Tohapha Debi in an aristocratic Khandayat family.
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Harekrushna Mahtab was the Chairman of Balasore District Board from 1924 to 1928.
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Harekrushna Mahtab joined the Salt Satyagraha movement and was imprisoned again in 1930.
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Harekrushna Mahtab was elected as the General Officer Commanding of Congress Sevadal for the AICC session at Puri in 1932 and he was arrested when the party was banned.
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Harekrushna Mahtab participated in the movement against untouchability in 1934 and opened his ancestral temple to all for the first time in Odisha.
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Harekrushna Mahtab was the President of Utkal Pradesh Congress Committee from 1930 to 1931 and again in 1937.
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Harekrushna Mahtab was nominated to the Congress Working Committee by Subhas Chandra Bose in 1938 and continued till 1946 and again from 1946 to 1950.
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Harekrushna Mahtab was the President of State Peoples' Enquiry Committee in 1938 and recommended cancellation of Sanada of the rulers and merger of the erstwhile princely states with Odisha Province.
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Harekrushna Mahtab participated in the Quit India Movement in 1942 and was imprisoned from 1942 to 1945.
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Harekrushna Mahtab was the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry from 1950 to 1952.
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Harekrushna Mahtab became the secretary general of the Congress Parliamentary Party in 1952.
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Harekrushna Mahtab was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1962 from Angul and became the vice-president of the Indian National Congress in 1966.
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Harekrushna Mahtab was elected to the Odisha Legislative Assembly in 1967,1971 and 1974.
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Harekrushna Mahtab was imprisoned in 1976 for protesting against the emergency.
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Harekrushna Mahtab was the founder of the Prajatantra Prachar Samiti and started the weekly magazine Prajatantra in 1923 at Balasore, which later became the Daily Prajatantra.
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Harekrushna Mahtab was the chief editor of a monthly journal Jhankar since its inception.
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Harekrushna Mahtab published the Weekly English paper The Eastern Times and was its chief editor.
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Harekrushna Mahtab received the Sahitya Academy award in 1983 for the third volume of his well-known work, Gaon Majlis.
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Harekrushna Mahtab was the President of Orissa Sahitya Academy and Sangit Natak Academy for a couple of terms.
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Harekrushna Mahtab received an honorary Doctorate degree from Andhra University, an honorary D Litt.
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