->Rlink2 at 01:53, 29 November 2021

2021-11-29T01:53:02Z

New page

{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{refimprove|date=December 2017}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}}
[[File:Lalit Narayan Mishra 1976 stamp of India.jpg|thumb|Mishra on a 1976 stamp of India]]
'''Lalit Narayan Mishra''' (2 February 1923 – 3 January 1975) was an Indian politician who served as [[Minister of Railways (India)|Minister of Railways]] in the government of India from 1973 to 1975. He was brought into politics by the first [[Chief Minister of Bihar]], [[Krishna Sinha]], when he was made parliamentary secretary at his insistence to the First [[Prime Minister of India]], [[Jawaharlal Nehru]].<ref>{{cite news
| url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Patna/Prez-releases-book-on-Nehru-Sri-Babu-letters/articleshow/4601515.cms
| title = Prez releases book on Nehru, Sri Babu letters
| author = Pranava K Chaudhary
| work = [[The Times of India]]
| date = 1 June 2009
| accessdate = 1 June 2009
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160214124822/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Patna/Prez-releases-book-on-Nehru-Sri-Babu-letters/articleshow/4601515.cms
| archive-date = 14 February 2016
| url-status = live
}}</ref> In 1975, he died in a bomb blast at [[Samastipur]] railway station. The court case was delayed for years and was finally completed in December 2014.

== Early life ==
Lalit Narayan Mishra was born on [[Basant Panchmi]] in 1922 at Basanpatti in
[[Supaul District]] of [[Bihar]] in a [[Maithil Brahmin]] family. He did his [[Master of Arts|MA]] in
[[economics]] from [[Patna University]] in 1948. The young
Mishra held nationalists [[Sri Krishna Sinha]] and [[Anugrah Narayan Sinha]] in high esteem.<ref>{{cite news
| url = http://www.google.co.in/#hl=en&q=l+n+mishra+held+anugrah+babu&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=bks&source=og&sa=N&tab=wp&ei=MSBTT7TYN4anrAfyxpzKDQ&fp=1&biw=1163&bih=644&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&cad=b
| title = LN MISHRA Commemoration Volume
| author = LN MISHRA Commemorative Volume:1978
| date = 1 March 2012
| accessdate = 1 June 2009
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101008055316/http://www.google.co.in/#hl=en&q=l+n+mishra+held+anugrah+babu&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=bks&source=og&sa=N&tab=wp&ei=MSBTT7TYN4anrAfyxpzKDQ&fp=1&biw=1163&bih=644&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&cad=b
| archive-date = 8 October 2010
| url-status = live
}}</ref> He married Kameshwari Devi and had two daughters and four sons, including politician [[Vijay Kumar Mishra]].

== Political career ==
Mishra joined the [[Indian National Congress]] party and was a member of the [[1st Lok Sabha|first]], [[2nd Lok Sabha|second]] [[Lok Sabha]] and [[5th Lok Sabha]]. He was a member of the [[Rajya Sabha]] in 1964 to 1966 then in 1966 to 1972. He held various posts in the party and government. He was [[Parliamentary Secretary#India|Parliamentary Secretary]], [[Minister of Labour and Employment (India)|Ministry of Planning, Labour and Employment]] (1957–60), Deputy Minister for [[Minister for Home Affairs (India)|Home Affairs]] (1964–66), Deputy [[Minister of Finance (India)|Finance Minister]] (1966–67), Minister of State for Defence Production (1967–70). From 1970 till 4 February 1973 he was Minister of Foreign Trade. On 5 February 1973 he was made Cabinet [[Minister of Railways (India)|Minister of Railways]] by then [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] [[Indira Gandhi]].

As a Minister of Foreign Trade, he was one of the first to recognize the potential of future [[Prime Minister of India]], [[Dr Manmohan Singh]] and appointed him as his adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Their first meeting happened coincidentally on an India-US-Chile flight.<ref name=speak>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/money/2004/may/22spec.htm|title=Speaking softly & making it stick|work=Rediff|author=T. N. Ninan|date=22 May 2004|access-date=19 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100414025514/http://www.rediff.com/money/2004/may/22spec.htm|archive-date=14 April 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> Mr. Mishra the minister for commerce (then called minister for foreign trade) was on his way to [[Santiago, Chile]], to attend a meeting of [[UNCTAD]].<ref name=speak/>

== Assassination ==
As Minister of Railways, he visited [[Samastipur]] on 2 January 1975 to declare the Samastipur-[[Darbhanga]] [[broad gauge]] railway line open. A bomb explosion on the dais seriously injured him. He was rushed to the railway hospital at [[Danapur]] where he died the next day.<ref>{{cite book |title=Limca Book of Records 1991 |year=1991 |publisher=Bisleri Beverages Ltd. |location=Bombay |page=41 |isbn=81-900115-1-0}}</ref>

==Investigation and trial ==
[[Indira Gandhi]] blamed "foreign elements" for the murder, probably referring to the CIA.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article567013.ece |title=Indira's India and the KGB}}</ref> His brother [[Jagannath Mishra]] denied the claim that LN Mishra and [[Indira Gandhi]] had received bribes from the [[KGB]] as alleged in the [[Mitrokhin Archives]]; the Congress Party describes the book as "pure sensationalism and vague".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/india-news/full_story.php?content_id=78340 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130127051720/http://www.indianexpress.com/india-news/full_story.php?content_id=78340 |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 January 2013 |title=Timeless mystery |author=Sudhi Rajan Sen |work=The Indian Express |date= 18 September 2005 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news
| url = http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/sep/18kgb.htm
| title = Allegations in Mitrokhin Archives vague: Congress
| author = PTI
| publisher = [[Rediff|Rediff News]]
| date = 18 September 2005
| accessdate = 18 October 2009
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070325034456/http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/sep/18kgb.htm
| archive-date = 25 March 2007
| url-status = live
}}</ref>
On 26 July 2012, the Supreme Court stated that it will go into the causes of delay as even after 33 years, the trial was yet to conclude in the session court.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3688644.ece| title=Supreme Court to go into delay after 1991 in L.N. Mishra murder case| date=27 July 2012| location=Chennai, India| work=The Hindu| first=J.| last=Venkatesan| access-date=27 July 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729045558/http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3688644.ece| archive-date=29 July 2012| url-status=live}}</ref> As of July 2013, the 27-year-old man accused of the murder was 65 years old. Of the 39 witnesses he cited to prove his innocence, 31 have died. More than 20 different judges have heard his case over the years, supposedly on a day-by-day basis.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Swaminomics/entry/without-quick-justice-politics-will-stay-criminalized | title=Without quick justice, politics will stay criminalized | author=SA Aiyar | date=17 July 2013 | work=The Times Of India | access-date=17 July 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724053007/http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Swaminomics/entry/without-quick-justice-politics-will-stay-criminalized | archive-date=24 July 2013 | url-status=live }}</ref>

After 39 years of trial, on 8 December 2014 four men accused of Mishra's murder were found guilty by a Delhi court. A fifth accused in the case had died.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/former-union-minister-l-n-mishra-gets-justice-39-years-after-his-murder-631563|title=Former Union Minister LN Mishra Gets Justice 39 Years After His Murder|author=Alok Pandey|date=8 December 2014|work=NDTV.com}}</ref> Three [[Ananda Marga]] followers, Santoshanand, Sudevanand and Gopalji, along with advocate Ranjan Dwivedi, were held guilty of murdering Mishra and two others. They were sentenced to life imprisonment by district judge and were fined amounts ranging from Rs 25,000 and Rs 20,000. The court noted that [[Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar]], the religious leader of Ananda Marga, was jailed following his accusations in a murder case so his followers murdered Mishra to build pressure on Indira Gandhi government to release Sarkar. Sarkar was later acquitted. The court also noted that the six Ananda Marga followers met at a village in [[Bhagalpur district]], Bihar and planned the conspiracy in 1973.<ref name="Standard 2014">{{cite news|agency=PTI|title=L N Mishra case: Four convicts awarded life sentence by trial court.|publisher=Business Standard|date=18 December 2014|url=http://wap.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/l-n-mishra-case-four-convicts-awarded-life-sentence-114121801192_1.html|accessdate=18 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218205605/http://wap.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/l-n-mishra-case-four-convicts-awarded-life-sentence-114121801192_1.html|archive-date=18 December 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> In a recent trial, the High Court quashed the verdict of the lower trial court and all the four accused have been acquitted as the evidence provided by C.B.I. could not convince the High Court bench.

==Legacy==
A university, Lalit Narayan Mithila University, MBA institutes, Lalit Narayan Mishra Institute of Economic Development and Social Change, Patna (LNMI, Patna), L N Mishra Institute of Business Management, Muzaffarpur and a railway hospital in Gorakhpur, UP are named after him. The Government of India issued a postage stamp in his memory.

==Family==
Several of Mishra's family members are involved in public service. Vijay Kumar Mishra is an MLC of [[Janata Dal (United)]] in Bihar. His other sons are Dr. Binay Kumar Mishra, who is a retired ENT specialist, Sanjay Mishra, a businessman and Vikas Mishra, businessman and a social activist.
His daughters were Late Smt. Bina Jha and Late Smt. Meera Jha. His younger brother, Late Dr. [[Jagannath Mishra]], has been Chief Minister of Bihar for three terms.

==See also==
* [[List of assassinated Indian politicians]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Cite web |url=http://rajyasabha.nic.in/whoswho/previous_member/biograp_sketc_1d.htm |title=Vital data |access-date=5 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081230184439/http://rajyasabha.nic.in/whoswho/previous_member/biograp_sketc_1d.htm |archive-date=30 December 2008 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
* [http://lnmu.ac.in/ University]
* [http://lnmu.ac.in/home/index.htm Institute=]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* [http://www.lnmcbm.org/ College of Business]
* http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/deptts/mpp/Instructions%20for%20medical.pdf
* https://web.archive.org/web/20170120134529/http://ebiharjharkhand.in/mnega-first-time-in-delhi-fine-day/
* https://datesheettimetable.co.in/lnmu-part-3-admit-card-2019-date/{{dead link|date=February 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

{{Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India)}}
{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mishra, Lalit Narayan}}
[[Category:1923 births]]
[[Category:1975 deaths]]
[[Category:1975 crimes in India]]
[[Category:1975 in India]]
[[Category:1975 murders in Asia]]
[[Category:1970s murders in India]]
[[Category:1st Lok Sabha members]]
[[Category:2nd Lok Sabha members]]
[[Category:5th Lok Sabha members]]
[[Category:Assassinated Indian politicians]]
[[Category:Commerce and Industry Ministers of India]]
[[Category:Crime in Bihar]]
[[Category:Deaths by explosive device]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians]]
[[Category:Lok Sabha members from Bihar]]
[[Category:People from Bihar]]
[[Category:People from Saharsa district]]
[[Category:People murdered in Bihar]]
[[Category:People murdered in India]]
[[Category:Railway Ministers of India]]
[[Category:Rajya Sabha members from Bihar]]

Lalit Narayan Mishra - Revision history

->Rlink2 at 01:53, 29 November 2021