32 Facts About Jagannath Mishra

Jagannath Mishra was an Indian politician who served as Chief Minister of Bihar and as Minister in the Union Cabinet.

Jagannath Mishra was Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha between 1988 - 1990 and 1994 - 2000.

Jagannath Mishra's involvement was at a high level in the Indian National Congress.

Jagannath Mishra was elected Chief Minister of Bihar three times.

Mishra's assassination, Jagannath Mishra became Bihar's most powerful Congress leader in the late seventies and eighties.

Jagannath Mishra was sentenced to four years imprisonment and a fine of 200,000 rupees.

Jagannath Mishra maintained his name was deliberately included in the scam on the instruction of the Congress president Sitaram Kesri.

Dr Jagannath Mishra was acquitted in two fodder scam cases on 23 December 2017 and 19 March 2018.

Jagannath Mishra began his career as a lecturer and later became professor of economics at Bihar University, Muzaffarpur.

Jagannath Mishra claimed that he had "strongly pleaded with the Centre that the policy should be changed".

Almost immediately Jagannath Mishra was summoned to Delhi and resigned on 14 August 1983.

Jagannath Mishra first became Chief Minister in 1975 but was brought down due to emergency.

Jagannath Mishra became Chief Minister for the second time in the year 1980 and for third time in the year 1989.

Jagannath Mishra was succeeded by Lalu Prasad Yadav of Janata Dal.

Jagannath Mishra revoked the recommendation of Mungeri Lal commission's report which provided reservation for backward castes.

Jagannath Mishra was among those convicted of Fodder Scam along with Lalu Prasad Yadav and was sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment in connection with the case.

Jagannath Mishra maintained that while he supported a free press as necessary and vital to a democracy, it must be controlled if one section of it acts irresponsibly.

Jagannath Mishra warned that the government could not allow any segment of society, including the press, to misuse constitutional freedom of expression and that just as the constitution does not allow anyone to commit murder, no reporter could be allowed to engage in character assassination.

Jagannath Mishra was upset with reports about the differences between her and Maneka Gandhi.

Jagannath Mishra asked me if I can bring a bill on the lines of Tamil Nadu and Orissa and asked me to meet then information and broadcasting minister Vasant Sathe, who gave me a detailed brief.

On 10 June 1980, during his first cabinet meeting of his second term as Chief Minister of Bihar, Jagannath Mishra promised to get the state Official Language Act amended to make Urdu the second official language of the State.

On 19 September 1980, the state government led by Jagannath Mishra declared that Urdu was the second official language of the state.

Jagannath Mishra wrote many research papers and authored and edited a number of books.

Jagannath Mishra was an erudite scholar, an author and an able administrator, and is credited with running of a tight ship during his tenure as Chief Minister of Bihar.

Jagannath Mishra was an accomplished economist and wrote several books on Bihar's economy.

Jagannath Mishra was 72 and was undergoing treatment for respiratory complications.

Jagannath Mishra is survived by three sons and three daughters.

Jagannath Mishra's son, Nitish Mishra, is a politician and has served as cabinet minister in the Government of Bihar.

Jagannath Mishra's opponents had mutated the lands of Jagannath Mishra and had claimed title over the same.

Jagannath Mishra knew that mutation doesn't create title nor it extinguishes title.

Jagannath Mishra died on 19 August 2019 at the age of 82 years, after a prolonged illness in a Delhi hospital.

Jagannath Mishra was cremated with full State honours in Balua Bazar, his ancestral village in Supaul district.