ACHARYA KRIPLANI

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Recently, The Prime Minister has paid tributes to Acharya Kripalani on his Birth Anniversary (11th November).

Important points:

He was born on 11th November 1888 in Hyderabad, Sindh.
His original name was Jivatram Bhagwandas Kripalani but was popularly known as Acharya Kripalani. He was an independence activist, Indian politician and an Educationist.
From 1912 to 1927, he taught at various places before becoming wholly involved in the freedom movement.
He earned the moniker ‘Acharya’ around 1922 when he was teaching at the Gujarat Vidyapith, founded by the Mahatma a couple of years before.
He, along with Vinoba Bhave, was involved in preservation and conservation activities throughout the 1970s.
He was part of the Non-Cooperation Movement (1920-22) and the Civil Disobedience movements (started in 1930) and Quit India Movement (1942).
He was the President of Indian National Congress (INC) at the time of independence. He served in the Interim government of India (1946–1947) and the Constituent Assembly of India.
He became one of the founders of the Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party (KMPP) after independence leaving congress.
He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1952, 1957, 1963 and 1967 as a member of Praja Socialist Party.
He moved the first-ever No confidence motion in Lok Sabha in 1963, immediately after the India-China War (1962).
In 1963, Sucheta Kripalani, a Congress leader became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, a first for any woman in the country while her husband Acharya remained an opponent to the Congress.
He was a critic of Nehru’s policies and Indira Gandhi’s rule. He was arrested during Emergency (1975).
My Times, his autobiography published posthumously in 2004.