January 2013

Veteran BJP leader, former governor of Gujarat and Rajasthan and former finance minister of Bihar, Kailashpati Mishra, passed away in State of Bihar on 3 November 2012. Kailashpati Misra, was of 90 years of age and was suffering from prolonged illness. Kailashpati Misra who was born at Dudharchak village in Buxar district in 1923 served as governor of Gujarat from 7 May 2003 to 7 July 2004 and for a brief period of Rajasthan too during the same duration. He was a bachelor and popularly known as the “Bhishmapitamah” of State BJP. Kailashpati Misra had taken part in the Quit India Movement at very early age when he was in school only. Later in young age he joined RSS in 1945 and became state organisation secretary of Jan Sangh in 1959. Kailashpati Misra was the first state BJP president in 1980. He then went to become Rajya Sabha MP from 1984 to 1990 and was BJP’s national vice-president from 1995 to 2004.

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