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{{Short description|Indian politician (born 1921)}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Chandradeo Prasad Verma
| image = File:Chandradeo_prasad_verma.jpeg
| caption =
| constituency1 = [[Arrah (Lok Sabha constituency)|Arrah]], [[Bihar]]
| office = Former [[Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]
| term = 1996-1998
| predecessor = [[Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav]]
| successor = H. P. Singh
| office1 =
| term1 = 1977-1984
| predecessor1 = [[Bali Ram Bhagat]]
| successor1 = [[Bali Ram Bhagat]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date |df=yes|1921|1|21}}
| birth_place = Purushottampur Painathi, [[Patna District]], [[Bihar]], [[British India]]
| residence = [[Patna]], [[Bihar]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party = [[Janata Dal]]
| otherparty = [[Janata Party]], [[RJD]], [[Samyukta Socialist Party]], [[Congress Socialist Party]], [[Lok Dal]]
| spouse = Panna Devi Verma
| children = 3<ref>{{cite web|url=https://zeenews.india.com/home/senior-bihar-leader-chandra-deo-prasad-verma-dead_214638.html|title=Chandradeo prasad verma dead|date=30 April 2005|work=Zee News|accessdate=23 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222150445/https://zeenews.india.com/home/senior-bihar-leader-chandra-deo-prasad-verma-dead_214638.html|archive-date=22 December 2015}}</ref>
| website =
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| source = http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/2637.htm
}}
'''Chandradeo Prasad Verma''' (21 January 1921)<ref>{{cite book|last=Bhushan|first=Ravi|title=Reference India: S-Z|year=2003|publisher=Rifacimento International|page=361}}</ref> is a politician who was elected to the [[Lok Sabha]]'s lower house of the [[Parliament of India]] from the [[Arrah (Lok Sabha constituency)|Arrah]], [[Bihar]] in 1977, 1980 and 1996. He was the Union Minister of State for Rural Areas and Employment. He was earlier Member of the [[Bihar Legislative Assembly]] and a Cabinet minister in Bihar.<ref name="PeopleSabha1997">{{cite book|author1=India. Parliament. House of the People|author2=India. Parliament. Lok Sabha|title=Lok Sabha Debates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0KpXAAAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat.|page=33}}</ref><ref name="Sabha1997">{{cite book|author=India. Parliament. Rajya Sabha|title=Parliamentary Debates: Official Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m0KwAAAAIAAJ|year=1997|pages=117–118}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Senior Bihar leader Chandra Deo Prasad Verma dead|url=http://zeenews.india.com/home/senior-bihar-leader-chandra-deo-prasad-verma-dead_214638.html|accessdate=18 December 2015|publisher=Zee News|date=30 April 2005}}</ref>

==Life and political career ==
Verma Participated in [[indian independence movement|freedom movement]] and was also involved in the labour Strike of 1940 in South [[Bihar]] Sugar Mills at Bihta (Patna) under the Leadership
of Swami [[Sahajanand Saraswati]]. He was put behind the bars for his involvement in this movement. He also took participation in [[Quit India Movement]] of 1942 and was arrested by the British authorities in 1943. During this period, he underwent two years of rigorous
imprisonment in Central Jail, Patna, [[Gaya, India|Gaya]] and Phoolwari Sharif camp. He also involved himself in the revolutionary activities after release from jail in 1945. During this period, when the indian independence struggle was at its height, he made attempts to blast the Bikram Airport ([[Patna]]) in order to defy the colonial rule. He was made president of Bihar State Leather Industries Association, Patna, from 1957 to 1984; and of Bihar State Telephone Employees Union, Trade Union Patna for 1958-62 after independence of India. Verma was the founder, secretary of G.J. College, Rambagh at Bihta, Patna, in 1957. He also served as president of Jai Prakash Ashram, Paliganj, Patna. Despite holding a number of offices, he was again involved in 1974 [[Total Revolution]], which was started by [[Jayprakash Narayan]] against the authoritarian rule of [[Indira Gandhi]] government from Bihar. Verma also struggled for the cause of low-income groups and lower strata of society and was associated with Bihar State Class iv Employees Association, from 1969 to 1984. As a leader of workers he was a participant in [[Fatuha]]-Islampur and [[Arrah]]-[[Sasaram]] Light Railway Employees Union from 1984 to 1985. In the later years of his life, he became a member of [[Mahatma Phule]] Trust, Patna and remained associated with it till 1990. He was also a member of ''Bihar Rajya Swatantrata Sainani Sangathan'', Patna in 1992, the organisation representing the freedom fighters who participated in indian war of independence from the state of [[Bihar]].<ref name="LS">{{cite web|url=http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/2637.htm|title=Biographical sketch of Member of Lok Sabha|website=[[Lok Sabha]]|accessdate=23 March 2021}}</ref>

Chandradeo Verma represented upper strata of middle peasant castes. He was a member of [[Koeri]] community. In one of his election campaign, he made the issue of revival of [[Ranvir Sena]], an upper caste militant outfit, as the focal point of his overall campaigning.<ref> {{cite book |title=The situated politics of belonging |page=135,136 |first=Nira-Yuval-Davis |last=Kalpana |publisher=Sage publication |location=london|year=2006|isbn=1-4129-2101-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d6pIf0EjBXIC&pg=PA135|accessdate=30 May 2020}}</ref><ref name="womensstudies">{{cite journal |last=Björkert |first=Suruchi Thapar |title=Women as arm-bearers: Gendered caste-violence and the Indian state |journal=Women's Studies International Forum |volume=29 |issue=5 |pages=474–488 |doi=10.1016/j.wsif.2006.07.005 |date=September–October 2006 }}</ref>

===Relation with Jagdeo Prasad===
Verma was close to [[Jagdeo Prasad]] during initial year of his life. He is said to have persuaded Prasad to read the various political ideologies and philosophers in order to make effort for the betterment of Dalits through his social justice politics. Being persuaded by him, Prasad followed him and later emerged as the emancipator of the lower castes through the politics of socialism. He even founded his own ''Shoshit Samaj Dal'', when he developed ideological conflicts with the leadership of [[Samyukta Socialist Party]].<ref name="Patel">{{cite web|url=https://www.forwardpress.in/2016/10/babu-jagdev-prasad-bahujans-real-hero/|title=babu-jagdev-prasad-bahujans-real-hero|first=ANOOP|last=PATEL |website=forward press|date=5 May 2016|access-date= 2 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161023185358/https://www.forwardpress.in/2016/10/babu-jagdev-prasad-bahujans-real-hero/|archive-date= 23 October 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Social and cultural activities==
He was the editor of a journal brought out by ''Bihar Rajya Swantrata Sainani Sangathan'' and also Worked as an Assistant Editor and Secretary in ''Janata'' a Hindi daily published from Patna during 1951–52. Later, he became the Chief Editor of ''Janata''
which became a weekly from 1952 and remained so till 1957. He also fought against social injustice and supported the cause of socially oppressed people. Verma worked for the interests of the backwards and the [[Dalit]]s and took up the case
of 384 civilian employees of Air-Force-2 B.R.D. stationed at Gwalior. As a leader of trade unionists, he actively pursued the cause of [[Arrah]]-[[Sasaram]] Light Railway and Fatuha Islampur Martins Light-Railway employees for their regularisation, who were facing the threat of eviction due to government policies.<ref name="LS"/>
==Offices Held==
*1937-48 Member, [[Congress Socialist Party]], Bihar
*1957-62 Chief Whip, Praja Socialist Party, Bihar
*1957-62,1967-72 Member, Bihar Legislative Assembly
*1967-70 Chief Secretary, [[Samyukta Socialist Party]], Bihar
*1970-71 Cabinet Minister, Agriculture, Bihar
*1973-74 Secretary, Central Parliamentary Board, Socialist Party
*1977 Elected to Lok Sabha (Sixth)
*1977-80 Member, Committee on Private Members Bills and Resolutions
*1980 Re-elected to Lok Sabha (Seventh)
*1980 Member, National Executive, [[Lok Dal]]
*1993-95 Cabinet Minister, Health and Family Welfare, Education,
*April 1995- Cabinet Minister, Excise and Prohibition, Bihar
*June 1996- Union Minister of State, Rural Areas and Employment<ref name="LS"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bhaskar.com/BIH-PAT-HMU-MAT-latest-patna-news-021501-2507597-NOR.html/|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210323060153/https://www.bhaskar.com/BIH-PAT-HMU-MAT-latest-patna-news-021501-2507597-NOR.html/|title=Chandradeo Prasad Verma remembered|website=Bhaskar.com|accessdate=23 March 2021|archive-date=23 March 2021}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/2637.htm Official Biographical Sketch in Lok Sabha Website]

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