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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
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| name = Jai Ram Verma
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| constituency = [[Faizabad (Lok Sabha constituency)|Faizabad]]
| office = Member of the [[Lok Sabha]]
| term_start = January 1980
| term_end = December 1984
| predecessor = [[Anantram Jaiswal]]
| successor = [[Nirmal Khatri]]

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| office2 = Member of the [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]
| term2 = 1970 – March 1974
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| term_start6 = 1952
| term_end6 = 1968
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1904|02|04}}
| birth_place = [[Faizabad District|Faizabad]], [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1987|01|14|1904|02|04}}
| death_place = [[Lucknow]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India
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| nationality = Indian
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]
| otherparty = [[Bharatiya Kranti Dal]]<br />(1967–1975)
| spouse = Pran Devi
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| children = 2
| residence = [[Faizabad]] & New Delhi
| alma_mater = [[Government Inter College Faizabad|Government Inter College]], [[Faizabad]]
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| profession = Teacher, [[agriculture|agriculturist]], social worker, politician
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''' Jai Ram Verma ''' (4 February 1904 – 14 January 1987<ref>{{Google books |id=FCG5hGZ-hJsC |page=656 |title=Land and People of Indian States and Union Territories }}</ref>) was an [[List of Indian independence activists|Indian freedom fighter]], politician and was [[Member of parliament, Lok Sabha]] of India. He was a member of the [[7th Lok Sabha]] and was also a member of the [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]. Verma represented the [[Faizabad (Lok Sabha constituency)|Faizabad]] constituency of [[Uttar Pradesh]] and was a member of the [[Indian National Congress]] political party.<ref name=" Member Profile ">{{cite news|title=Member Profile|publisher=[[Lok Sabha]] website|accessdate=1 January 2014|url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/biodata_1_12/2945.htm|archive-date=9 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109135442/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/biodata_1_12/2945.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=" Detailed Profile ">{{cite news|title= Detailed Profile|publisher= Indian Government official website|accessdate= 1 January 2014|url= http://india.gov.in/my-government/whos-who|archive-date= 5 July 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170705125751/https://india.gov.in/my-government/whos-who|url-status= live}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Jai Ram Verma was born in the village [[Baragaon, Ayodhya|Baragaon]], [[Faizabad District|Faizabad]] in the state of [[Uttar Pradesh]]. He attended the [[Government Inter College Faizabad|Government Inter College]] in the city of [[Faizabad]]. Verma worked as a teacher and [[agriculture|agriculturist]] prior to joining politics.<ref name=" Member Profile"/><ref name=" Detailed Profile"/> He did his M.Sc. in mathematics from Allahabad University.

==Political career==

===Pre independence===
Varma participated in the [[Indian independence movement]]. He was arrested several times (April 1941, August 1942 and February 1945). He participated in the [[Satyagraha]] and [[Quit India Movement]]s. Jai Ram Varma served as a member of [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] from 1946 (pre independence) and then went on to be appointed in the first [[Vidhan Sabha]] of [[Uttar Pradesh]].

===Post independence===
Jai Ram Varma has been in active politics since early 1930s. He joined [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] party. Whilst with Congress, he became a member [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] for several terms. He quit the Congress party to join newly formed [[Bharatiya Kranti Dal]] in 1967. During his association with [[Bharatiya Kranti Dal]], he again was elected as a member of [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]].
In 1975, Varma quit Bharatiya Kranti Dal to join [[Indian National Congress|Congress (I)]] once again.
Varma held several key party posts and was also a Minister & Deputy Minister in the [[Government of Uttar Pradesh]].<ref name=" Member Profile"/><ref name=" Detailed Profile"/><ref name=" Earlier Lok Sabha ">{{cite news|title=Earlier Lok Sabha|publisher=Lok Sabha website|accessdate=1 January 2014|url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/lokprev.aspx|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116233330/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/lokprev.aspx|archivedate=16 January 2014}}</ref>

==Posts held==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! # !! From !! To !! Position
|-
| 01 || 1952 || 1957 || Member, [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly|01st Assembly of U.P.]]
|-
| 02 || 1957 || 1962 || Member, [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly|02nd Assembly of U.P.]]
|-
| 03 || 1959 || 1960 || Deputy Minister, [[Government of Uttar Pradesh]]
|-
| 04 || 1962 || 1967 || Member, [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly|03rd Assembly of U.P.]]
|-
| 05 || 1962 || 1967 || Deputy Minister, [[Government of Uttar Pradesh]]
|-
| 06 || 1967 || 1968 || Member, [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly|04th Assembly of U.P.]]
|-
| 07 || 1967 || 1968 || Minister, [[Government of Uttar Pradesh]]
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| 08 || 1970 || 1974 || Member, [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly|05th Assembly of U.P.]]
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| 09 || 1970 || 1970 || Minister, [[Government of Uttar Pradesh]]
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| 10 || 1980 || 1984 || Member, [[7th Lok Sabha|07th Lok Sabha]]
|-
|}

==See also==
{{Portal|India}}
*[[7th Lok Sabha]]
*[[Lok Sabha]]
*[[Politics of India]]
*[[Parliament of India]]
*[[Government of India]]
*[[Indian National Congress]]
*[[Faizabad (Lok Sabha constituency)]]
*[[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]
*[[List of Indian independence activists]]

==References==
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[[Category:India MPs 1980–1984]]
[[Category:1904 births]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Lok Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:People from Faizabad]]
[[Category:People from Ayodhya district]]
[[Category:1987 deaths]]
[[Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1952–1957]]
[[Category:Indian independence activists from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1957–1962]]
[[Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1962–1967]]
[[Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1967–1969]]
[[Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1969–1974]]
[[Category:Bharatiya Kranti Dal politicians]]
[[Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1985–1989]]

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