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| name = Vindhyeshwari Prasad Varma<br />
| office = 1st [[List of speakers of the Bihar Legislative Assembly |Speaker]] of [[Bihar Legislative Assembly]]<br />
| term_start = 25 April 1946<br />
| term_end = 14 March 1962<ref name="Malhotra2004">{{cite book|author=G. C. Malhotra|title=Cabinet Responsibility to Legislature: Motions of Confidence and No-confidence in Lok Sabha and State Legislatures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DFqbAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat|isbn=978-81-200-0400-9|access-date=14 October 2016|archive-date=13 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713022343/https://books.google.com/books?id=DFqbAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref><br />
| birth_date = September 26, 1886<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1968|07|22|1886|09|26}}<br />
| occupation = Politician<br />
| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]] (1961)<br />
| native_name = Binda babu<br />
| native_name_lang = Hindi<br />
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| caption = Vindhyeshwari Prasad Varma<br />
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'''Vindhyeshwari Prasad Varma''' also known as '''Binda Babu''', was a politician from [[Bihar]] state of [[India]] who led [[Bihar Legislative Assembly]] as a first [[Speaker (politics)|Speaker]] in independent India from 1946 to 1962. He was awarded India's third highest civilian award [[Padma Bhushan]] in 1961 by [[President of India]].<ref name="Malhotra2004"/><ref>{{cite web |agency=Times News Network |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/RJD-MLA-faces-the-music-for-fodder-scam-slogan/articleshow/11052776.cms |title=RJD MLA faces the music for fodder scam slogan&nbsp;— The Times of India |publisher=Timesofindia.indiatimes.com |date=2011-12-10 |access-date=2015-10-05 |archive-date=25 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925151010/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/RJD-MLA-faces-the-music-for-fodder-scam-slogan/articleshow/11052776.cms |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.india.gov.in/myindia/padmabhushan_awards_list1.php?start=1030 |title=Padma Bhushan Awardees&nbsp;— Padma Awards&nbsp;— My India, My Pride&nbsp;— Know India: National Portal of India |publisher=Archive.india.gov.in |date=2012-12-09 |access-date=2015-10-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005212137/http://archive.india.gov.in/myindia/padmabhushan_awards_list1.php?start=1030 |archive-date=5 October 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Vindhyeshwari Prasad Varma was born in a Zamindar [[Kayastha]] family of Manpura, Goraul in Vaishali district. He was against tribal culture or Dravidian principles which led to massacres and riots all over the country in the name of 'freedom struggle'.{{Citation needed|date= July 2022}}.{{Citation needed|date= July 2022}} He was very brilliant in his studies. He topped the L.L.B. course from Allahabad University with distinction where he met Jawaharlal Nehru and supported his endeavor for suppressed castes (Agricultural people of India). He joined the Indian Freedom Struggle at early age of 16. He attended a public meeting for freedom struggle which coincided with marriage ceremony of freedom fighter [[Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi]]. In this meeting which was also attended by Shafi Daudi, Binda babu and Deep babu, anti-British Raj and pro-freedom slogans were raised.<br />
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<ref name="youngbites">{{cite web|last1=Singh|first1=Major Kulbir|title=Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi: Political activist from Bihar|url=http://www.youngbites.com/newsdet.aspx?q=204964|website=youngbites.com|date=1 July 2017|access-date=24 February 2022|archive-date=8 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208203239/http://www.youngbites.com/newsdet.aspx?q=204964|url-status=live}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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{{PadmaBhushanAwardRecipients 1960–69}}<br />
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[[Category:1886 births]]<br />
[[Category:1968 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in public affairs]]<br />
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Bihar]]<br />
[[Category:Speakers of the Bihar Legislative Assembly]]<br />
[[Category:Bihar MLAs 1952–1957]]<br />
[[Category:Bihar MLAs 1957–1962]]<br />
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