26 Facts About Ramaswamy Venkataraman

Ramaswamy Venkataraman was an Indian lawyer, Indian independence activist and politician who served as a Union Minister and as the eighth president of India.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman studied law and practised in the Madras High Court and the Supreme Court of India.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman was appointed as the member of the Constituent Assembly and the provisional cabinet.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman was elected to the Lok Sabha four times and served as Union Finance Minister and Defence Minister.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman served as a State minister under K Kamaraj and M Bhaktavatsalam.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman was born during the British colonial rule in Rajamadam village near in Pattukottai, near Tanjore district in Tamil Nadu in an Iyer family.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman had a close friend in Rajamadam village named as Rajamadam Kannan Iyengar.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman was enrolled in the Madras High Court in 1935 and in the Supreme Court in 1951.

Law and trade activity led to Ramaswamy Venkataraman's increasing association with politics.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman was a member of constituent assembly that drafted India's constitution.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman was a member of the Indian Parliamentary Delegation to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in New Zealand.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman was appointed as a Member of the Union Planning Commission in 1967 and was entrusted the subjects of Industry, Labour, power, Transport, Communications, Railways.

In 1977, Ramaswamy Venkataraman was elected to the Lok Sabha from Madras Constituency and served as an Opposition Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman was, variously, a member of the Political Affairs Committee and the Economic Affairs Committee of the Union Cabinet; Governor, International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the Asian Development Bank.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman was a Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly in 1953,1955,1956,1958,1959,1960 and 1961.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman was Leader of the Indian Delegation to the 42nd Session of the International Labour Conference at Geneva and represented India in the Inter Parliamentary Conference in Vienna.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman was a member of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal from 1955 to 1979 and was its President from 1968 to 1979.

In 1980, Ramaswamy Venkataraman was re-elected to the Lok Sabha and was appointed Union Minister of Finance in the Government headed by Smt.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman was later appointed Union Minister of Defence, here he is credited for initiating India's missile programme, he shifted A P J Abdul Kalam from space programme to the missile programme, and consolidated the entire missile system, naming it as Integrated Guided Missile Development Program.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman received the Doctorate of Law from the University of Madras.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman is an Honorary Fellow, Madras Medical College; a Doctor of Social Sciences, University of Roorkee; Doctor of Law from the University of Burdwan.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman was awarded The Tamra Patra for participation in the freedom struggle, the Soviet Land Prize for his travelogue on K Kamaraj's visit to the Socialist countries.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman was a great devotee of the Paramacharya of Kanchi.

On 12 January 2009, Ramaswamy Venkataraman was admitted to the Army Hospital with complaints of Urosepsis.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman died at the Army Hospital New Delhi on 27 January 2009 at 14:30 IST due to multiple organ failure at the age of 98.

Ramaswamy Venkataraman was cremated with full state honours at Ekta Sthal near Raj Ghat.