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{{Short description|Indian politician in British India and later Pakistan and India}}
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[[Rai Bahadur]] '''Ganga Saran''' was an Indian trade unionist and politician from [[Punjab]].<ref name="Bangash">{{Cite journal |last=Bangash |first=Yaqoob Khan |date=2022-07-04 |title=Anglo-Indians and the Punjab Partition: Identity, Politics, and the Creation of Pakistan |journal=The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History |volume=51 |pages=124–155 |doi=10.1080/03086534.2022.2086202 |issn=0308-6534|doi-access=free }}</ref> He was a member of the [[Punjab Provincial Assembly (British India)]] and both the [[Constituent Assembly of India]] and the [[Constituent Assembly of Pakistan]].

In the [[1946 Punjab Provincial Assembly election]], Saran won as an independent candidate from a non-constituency seat reserved for Punjab Trade and Labour Unions.'''<ref name="Morgue_and_Ref">{{Cite archive|collection=Home Political|institution=National Archive of India|item-url=https://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/handle/123456789/2717131|item-id=HOME_POLITICAL_I_1945_NA_F-79-46|item=Press Infromation [sic] Bureau's Morgue and Ref Series: (1) Analysis of the Results of General Elections to the Central and Provincial Legislatures Held In 1945-46 (2) Indian Political Parties, and (3) Provincial Minstries 1937-45}}</ref>'''{{Efn|Securing 552 votes, Saran barely scraped through against R.S. Ramjawaya Kapur, another independent candidate. The incumbent legislator [[Lala Sita Ram]] managed a paltry 51 votes.<ref name="Morgue_and_Ref"/>}} He was a member of the [[National Liberal Federation of India]].<ref>{{Cite report |url=https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10973/38141/GIPE-070076.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y |title=Report of The Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Session of the National Liberal Federation of India |date=March 1945}}</ref> Saran intended to stay in Pakistan after Pakistan, and became a member of the [[Punjab Provincial Assembly (British India)|Punjab Provincial Assembly]].<ref name="Punjab_Gov_List">{{Cite web |last=Government of Punjab |title=First Legislative Assembly of Punjab (August 15, 1947 to January 25, 1949) |url=https://pap.gov.pk/en/members/past-members/punjab-legislative-assembly-1947-to-1955/punjab-legislative-assembly-post-2}}</ref>{{Efn|All members of the '46 legislature, who won from what was now Pakistan's share of Punjab, were appointed to the assembly until re-elections were held in January, 1949.}} On 4 July 1947, he was elected by the non-Muslim members of the (yet-undivided) Punjab Assembly to the [[Constituent Assembly of Pakistan]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=5 July 1947 |title=Punjab Speaker Defeated: Pakistan Assembly |pages=8 |work=Times of India |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/347195954|id={{ProQuest|347195954}} }}</ref>{{Efn|He won as an independent; his fellow victors were [[Avtar Narain Gujral]] and [[Bhim Sen Sachar]] from the Congress.}}

A couple of months later, Saran migrated to India and on 1 November 1947, became a member of [[Punjab Legislative Assembly|East Punjab Legislative Assembly]].<ref>{{Cite report |url=https://www.punjabassembly.gov.in/images/Debates/1947/1%20to%208%20November%201947.pdf |title=East Punjab Legislative Assembly Official Debates: 1st November 1947 |date=1947 |publisher=East Punjab Government Press |issue=1 |volume=1}}</ref> Despite, he did not resign from the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan. In January 1949, the "Committee on Addition and/or Redistribution of Seats", while recommending the dissolution of the two vacant non-Muslim seats in the Assembly,{{efn|Both Sachar and Gujral had resigned, before migrating to India. The population of Hindus, as of May 1948, was deemed insufficient by the Committee to secure representation in the Assembly.}} hinted that it was constitutionally suspect whether Saran was entitled to retain his seat.{{fact|date=September 2024}}

In 1951, Saran supported [[Bhim Sen Sachar]] in a factional feud against then-Chief-Minister [[Gopi Chand Bhargava]].{{fact|date=September 2024}}

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[[Category:Indian trade union leaders]]
[[Category:Trade unionists from Punjab, India]]
[[Category:Members of the Constituent Assembly of India]]
[[Category:Members of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan]]
[[Category:Members of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab]]
[[Category:Members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly]]
[[Category:Pakistani emigrants to India]]
[[Category:Naturalised citizens of India]]

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EJEBoris894787 at 22:55, 5 September 2024