Party Name : Congress
Constituency : Sultanpur
State : Uttar Pradesh
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 1 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 3
More Information :
VERMA, SHRI KUNWAR KRISHNA, B.A., LL.B., Cong., (U.P.—Sultanpur—1962): S. of Shri Ganpat Sahai; B. Sultanpur, January, 1901; ed. at Government High School, Sultanpur, Allahabad University and Canning College, Lucknow University; m. Shrimati Radha Rani, June, 1927; Legal practitioner; Suffered imprisonment during freedom movement, 1942—44; President, D.C.C. Sultanpur, 1946—48; President, D.C.C. since 1959; Member, State Congress Committee since 1952 and of AICC since 1959; Chairman, Distt. Board, Sultanpur; President, Distt. Co-operative Consumers' Store, Sultanpur; President, Distt. Development Federation, Sultanpur; General Secretary, Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Fund, Sultanpur; Managing Director, Distt. Cooperative-Bank Ltd., Sultanpur; Manager, Madhusudan Vidyalaya Intermediate College, Sultanpur; M.L.A., U.P., 1952—62. Social activities: Taken active part in Shramdan drive and won a shield therefor; National Savings Campaign; Anti-illiteracy Campaign, Harijan and social uplift, prohibition programme, work among flood-affected people including distribution of clothes to the sufferers; Popularisation of Khadi and Gramodyog articles and Hindu-Muslim Unity. Special interest: Congress propaganda and Hindu-Muslim Unity work. Permanent address: Vakil, Civil Lines, Sultanpur, UP. [Voting results at the Election: Electorate: 3,95,920 Shri Kunwar Krishna Verma . . 87,918 Shri Bechu Singh . . 55,367 Shri Vidyadhar Bajpai . . 20,404].
