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{{Short description|Indian Bihari Politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Boniface Lakra
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| birth_date = 4 March 1898
| birth_place = Doba, [[Kuru block|Kuru]], [[Jharkhand]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|8 December 1976|4 March 1898}}
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| education = [[Ravenshaw College]] ([[Master of Arts|M.A.]])<ref>{{cite book | last=Committee | first=Great Britain Indian Delimitation | title=Government of India Act, 1935: Report of the Committee Appointed in Connection with the Delimitation of Constituencies and Connected Matters .... | publisher=H.M. Stationery Office | date=1936 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SeUWMHIncD8C&pg=PA286| access-date=2026-01-08 | page=}}</ref><ref>{{cite report|title= Patna University Calendar 1937-38 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.97111/page/n234/ |page=231 |publisher=Patna University}}</ref>
| office1 = Member of [[Constituent Assembly of India]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://loksabha.nic.in/constituent/Constituent.aspx | title=LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY (AS IN NOVEMBER, 1949) | publisher=[[Lok Sabha]] | accessdate=21 March 2023}}</ref>
| term_start1 = 9 December 1946
| term_end1 = 24 January 1950
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]
| other_party = Catholic Sabha

| office2 =Member of [[1937 Indian provincial elections|Provincial Assembly, Bihar]]
| constituency2 = Gumla-cum-Simdega
| term_start2 =1937
| term_end2 = 1946

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'''Boniface Lakra''' was an Indian politician. He was a member of the [[Constituent Assembly of India]] from [[Bihar]]. He was also a member of the [[Bihar Legislative Assembly]].<ref name="The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Whos who 1950 p. ">{{cite book | title=The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who | year=1950 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DTHlAAAAMAAJ | access-date=21 Mar 2023 | page=380}}</ref><ref name="Reed Times of India 1951 p. ">{{cite book | last1=Reed | first1=Sir Stanley | last2=Times of India | first2=Bombay | title=Indian and Pakistan Year Book and Who's who | publisher=Times of India Press | year=1951 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N1_VAAAAMAAJ | access-date=21 Mar 2023 | page=418}}</ref><ref name="Reed 1943 p. ">{{cite book | last=Reed | first=Sir Stanley | title=Indian Year Book | publisher=Times of India Press | year=1943 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vqgSAAAAIAAJ | access-date=21 Mar 2023 | page=85}}</ref><ref name="Mishra Paty Mahila College 2010 p. 171">{{cite book | last1=Mishra | first1=A. | last2=Paty | first2=C.K. | last3=Mahila College | first3=Chaibasa | title=Tribal Movements in Jharkhand, 1857-2007 | publisher=Concept Publishing Company | year=2010 | isbn=978-81-8069-686-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ul6fWJQOfzwC&pg=PA171 | access-date=21 Mar 2023 | page=171}}</ref><ref name="Bihar (India) Choudhury 1970 p. 583">{{cite book | author=Bihar (India) | last2=Choudhury | first2=P.C.R. | title=Bihar District Gazetteers | publisher=Superintendent, Secretariat Press, Bihar | issue=v. 12; v. 16 | year=1970 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AyxuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA583 | language= | access-date=21 Mar 2023 | page=583}}</ref>

==Early life==

Boniface Lakra was born on 4 March 1898 in the Kuru area of present-day Jharkhand, into a Christian Oraon family.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Prasad |first=Rajendra |url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=DCYLAQAAIAAJ& |title=Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Correspondence and Select Documents |date=1984 |publisher=Allied |isbn=978-0-8364-1179-9 |language=en}}</ref> He completed his higher education with a degree in arts.

==Political career==

In 1931, on the suggestion of Rev. Sevrin, Lakra founded the Chota Nagpur Roman Catholic Sabha and became its president. Representing the organisation with the support of the [[Indian National Congress]], he won the [[1934 Indian general election|1934 general election]] and was elected to the [[Central Legislative Assembly]]. He was subsequently elected to the [[Bihar Legislative Assembly]] in the [[1937 Indian provincial elections|provincial elections of 1937]] from the Gumla-cum-Simdega constituency.<ref>{{cite book | last=Assembly | first=Bihar (India) Legislature Legislative | title=Bihar Legislative Assemby Debates: Official Report | publisher=Superintendent, Government Print. | date=1937 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pS0gAQAAIAAJ| access-date=2026-01-08 | page=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Kumar | first=N. | title=Bihar District Gazetteers (Ranchi) | publisher=Superintendent, Secretariat Press, Bihar | date=1970 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AyxuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA571 | pages=571–581}}</ref> By virtue of his legislative position, he was indirectly elected to the [[Constituent Assembly of India]] in [[1946 Indian Constituent Assembly election|1946]]. After independence, Lakra contested the [[1952 Bihar Legislative Assembly election|1951-52 Bihar Legislative Assembly election]] from the Chainpur Scheduled Tribe–reserved constituency as a Congress candidate but was defeated by Deocharan Manjhi of the [[Chota Nagpur Santhal Parganas Janata Party]], losing by a margin of 23.39 percent.<ref>{{cite report|title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF BIHAR|publisher=ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA, NEW DELHI| url=https://hindi.eci.gov.in/files/file/3886-%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0-%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE-%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%A8-1951/?do=download&r=9191&confirm=1&t=1&csrfKey=f9fe853ec56c3f59157bb7e1f4753db2 }}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Members of the Constituent Assembly of India]]
[[Category:Politicians from Bihar]]
[[Category:Year of death missing]]

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