Tarkeshwari Sinha was an Indian politician and independence activist from Bihar.
11 Facts About Tarkeshwari Sinha
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Tarkeshwari Sinha was the first female Deputy Finance Minister in the union cabinet led by prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru from 1958 to 1964.
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Tarkeshwari Sinha was born in Tulsigarh village near Chandi under Nalanda District in a Bhumihar Brahmin Family.
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Tarkeshwari Sinha was a student of Bankipore Girls College, now known as Magadh Mahila College, in Patna.
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Tarkeshwari Sinha was the President of the Bihar Students Congress, which had broken away from the All India Students Federation.
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Tarkeshwari Sinha contested elections from the Barh constituency in Bihar.
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Tarkeshwari Sinha was considered close to Morarji Desai and was on his side in the battle of succession between Desai and Indira Gandhi to replace Lal Bahadur Shastri as Prime Minister.
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Tarkeshwari Sinha lost the assembly election next year as well, and returned to Indira Gandhi's party.
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Tarkeshwari Sinha had set up a hospital, in Tulsigarh, in the memory of her brother Capt Girish Nandan Singh, pilot with Air India who died in an air crash in New Delhi.
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Tarkeshwari Sinha had raised nearly Rs 25 lakh for the construction of the two-floored hospital where treatment was almost free.
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Tarkeshwari Sinha took the initiative to construct a road to link the village with Chandi and Harnaut in Nalanda.