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{{Short description|Indian politician (1919–1989)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna
|image = Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna 2018 stamp of India.jpg
|caption = Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna on a 2018 stamp of India
|native_name =
|native_name_lang =
|office = 13th [[Minister of Finance (India)|Union Minister of Finance]]
|term_start = 28 July 1979
|term_end = 25 October 1979
|primeminister = Charan Singh
|predecessor = [[Charan Singh]]
|successor = Charan Singh
|order1 = 8th
|office1 = Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
|term_start1 = 8 November 1973
|term_end1 = 29 November 1975
|predecessor1 = Kamalapati Tripathi
|successor1 = N. D. Tiwari
| office3 = [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]
| constituency3 = [[Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency|Garhwal]]
| term_start3 = (1980 - 1982), (1982
| term_end3 = 1984)
| predecessor3 = Pandit Jagannath Sharma
| successor3 = [[Chandra Mohan Singh Negi]]
| constituency4 = [[Lucknow Lok Sabha constituency|Lucknow]]
| term_start4 = (1977
| term_end4 = 1980)
| predecessor4 = [[Sheila Kaul]]
| successor4 = [[Sheila Kaul]]
| term_start5 = (1971
| constituency5 = [[Allahabad Lok Sabha constituency|Allahabad]]
| term_end5 =1975)
| predecessor5 = [[Hari Krishna Shastri]]
| successor5 = [[Janeshwar Mishra]]
|party = [[Bharatiya Lok Dal]]
|otherparty = [[Indian National Congress]], [[Janata Party]], [[Congress for Democracy]]
|birth_date = 25 April 1919
|birth_place = [[Pauri Garhwal]], [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh]], [[British Raj|British India]] (present-day [[Uttarakhand]], [[India]])
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1989|03|17|1919|04|25}}
|death_place = [[Cleveland]], [[Ohio]], [[U.S.]]
|alma_mater = [[Allahabad University]]
|spouse = [[Kamala Bahuguna]]
|children = [[Vijay Bahuguna]] (son) [[Rita Bahuguna Joshi]] (daughter)
|relatives = [[Saurabh Bahuguna]] (grandson)
}}

'''Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna''' (25 April 1919 – 17 March 1989) was an [[Indian National Congress]] leader and former [[Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh]]; he later joined [[Bharatiya Lok Dal]] and worked with [[Charan Singh]].

==Personal life==
He was born on 25 April 1919 in Bughani, [[Pauri Garhwal]], [[Uttarakhand]] in a [[Garhwali people|Garhwali]] [[Brahmin]] family.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mishra |first=Anand |date=16 August 2020 |title=Big fight for Brahmin votes in Uttar Pradesh |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/national/national-politics/big-fight-for-brahmin-votes-in-uttar-pradesh-874065.html |work=Deccan Herald |access-date=27 September 2020}}</ref> The family later moved to Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh.<ref name="Pauri">{{cite web|publisher=Pauri Garhwal Group |title=Hemanti Nandan Bahuguna|url=http://www.paurigarhwal.com/celebrities/hemantinandanbahuguna.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070601164421/http://www.paurigarhwal.com/celebrities/hemantinandanbahuguna.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 June 2007 |access-date=15 March 2015}}</ref>

Little is known about his first marriage. His first wife always lived in his native village Bughani as a simple village woman.
His second wife, [[Kamala Bahuguna]], lived with him in [[Allahabad]] and was the mother of their three children:
:*Their eldest son [[Vijay Bahuguna]] served as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. He was a former judge of Allahabad and [[Bombay High Court]]. He is a member of [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]. Vijay's son [[Saurabh Bahuguna|Saurabh]] is a Member of the [[Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly]] from BJP .<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kumar |first1=Yogesh |date=24 January 2017 |title=Vijay Bahuguna's younger son Saurabh to take forward his legacy |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/vijay-bahugunas-younger-son-saurabh-to-take-forward-his-legacy/articleshow/56741117.cms |work=The Times of India |access-date=15 May 2022}}</ref> He is serving as the Minister of Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Skill Development & Employment, Protocol and Sugarcane Development in [[Pushkar Singh Dhami]]'s cabinet of 2022.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Uttarakhand CM Dhami allots portfolios, keeps over two dozen departments with himself |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/uttarakhand-cm-dhami-allots-portfolios-two-dozen-department-7844019/ |access-date=7 December 2022 |work=The Indian Express |date=30 March 2022}}</ref>
:*Second son Shekhar Bahuguna.
:*The couple's daughter, [[Rita Bahuguna|Rita Bahuguna Joshi]] was chief of [[Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee]]. She also served as the Mayor of [[Allahabad]]. She is a member of [[Bharatiya Janata Party]].

==Politics==

===Pre-independence===

====Students Parliament====
He studied in D.A.V. School and Messmore Inter College of Pauri Town. He passed 10th from Pauri and went to the [[Government Intermediate College]] in Allahabad in 1937 in the Bachelor of Science programme. He received an Arts degree in 1946.<ref name="Pauri" />

====In jail====
He was jailed as a part of Quit India movement from 1942 to 1946.{{Citation needed|date = January 2015}}

===Post independence===

====Union Cabinet====
In 1971, he was made State Minister for Communication in the Union Cabinet.

====Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh====
In 1973, he was appointed the Chief Minister of [[Uttar Pradesh]], the most populous state in India. However, his tenure was short and he was forced to resign by Prime minister [[Indira Gandhi]] in 1975.

====Parting of ways with the Congress====
In early 1977, when Indira Gandhi lifted the state emergency and called for new elections to the Lok Sabha, Bahuguna left the ruling Congress party of Indira and formed a new group called [[Congress for Democracy]] (CFD) with [[Jagjivan Ram]] and [[Nandini Satpathy]]. The CFD joined the Janata alliance to contest the elections. After the victory of the Janata alliance, Bahuguna joined the cabinet of Janata Prime Minister [[Morarji Desai]] as the [[Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers|minister of chemicals and fertilizers]].
In 1979, he became the Finance Minister under the short lived (August - December 1979) Charan Singh administration. During his term, Indian economy went into the last recession of the 20th century. Real GDP growth fell by massive 5.2% in 1979 due to the [[1979 energy crisis|global energy crisis]]. Bahuguna withdrew from the government and joined hands with Indira Gandhi in October 1979.

In the January 1980 Parliamentary elections he won from [[Garhwal (Lok Sabha constituency)|Garhwal]] as Indira Gandhi's Congress(I) party candidate. But, he soon left the party and resigned his seat subsequently. He won the by-election for the seat in 1982.

====1984 Lok Sabha Elections====
He contested against the Congress candidate, [[Amitabh Bachchan]], in [[1984 Indian general election|1984 Parliamentary elections]] from [[Allahabad (Lok Sabha constituency)|Allahabad constituency]]. Bachchan won the election by approximately 1,87,000 votes. Later his wife Kamla Bahuguna also stood for by-elections from Allahabad.

===Electoral history===
* 1971 : Elected to Lok Sabha from [[Allahabad (Lok Sabha constituency)|Allahabad]] as member of Congress
* 1977 : Elected to Lok Sabha from Lucknow as member of 'Congress For Democracy', supported by Janata Party
* 1980 : Elected to Lok Sabha from [[Garhwal (Lok Sabha constituency)|Garhwal]] as member of Congress, but soon quit both Congress and Lok Sabha
* 1982 bypoll : Elected to Lok Sabha from Garhwal, defeating his Congress rival
* 1984 : Lost to [[Amitabh Bachchan]] in Prayagraj (Allahabad)

==Death==
Bahuguna fell ill in 1988 and flew to the United States for coronary bypass surgery. The surgery was unsuccessful and he died 17 March 1989 in a Cleveland hospital.

==Legacy==
* [[Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University]], [[Uttarakhand]]'s largest university in [[Srinagar, Uttarakhand|Srinagar]], [[Pauri Garhwal]]
* [[Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Uttarakhand Medical Education University]], in [[Dehradun]], Uttarakhand

==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140721050934/http://uplegisassembly.gov.in/CHIEF%20MINISTERS.HTM Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh]
* {{cite web|url=http://legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in/STATISTICAL/UP.htm|title=Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly|access-date=16 March 2013}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928031108/http://www.hnbahuguna.com/aboutme.html Biography]
* [http://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99aug27/nation.htm Bahugana's daughter runs in Amethi]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090410015111/http://uplegassembly.nic.in/mini_b.htm MINISTERS]
* [https://www.southasiamonitor.org/open-forum/h-n-bahuguna-man-who-could-be-prime-minister/ H.N.Bahuguna: A man who could have been Prime Minister]

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