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Maroh 12, 1961^ Himalayan Times
Three
PANDIT GOVltiD BALLABH PANT DEAD,
Grim 14-day Battle1 with Death
New Delbi, Maroh 7.
On a tongue of land
jutting into- the Jamub*
and watched by nearly
160,000 people, the body
of Sri G. B. Pant was
cremated this evening after
the last rites had been
performed by his son, Sri
K. C. Pant.
Throughout last night
Doctors had fought a last-
ditch battle to save Sri
Pant's'life. But he failed
to respond to treatment.
The last hours were very
peaceful. PunditB were
reciting from the Gita
when the end came at
8-60 A. M.
Around the funeral
pyre stood the President,
Dr. Raj end ra Prasad, the
Vice-President, Dr. Rariba
krishnan, Governors from
four States, five Chief
Ministers and Sri Pin t's
Cabinet colleagues headed
by Sri Morarji Desai.
The final ceremony
was heralded by three
volleys of small arms fire
by a firing party of 12
and after a short interval,
buglers sounded the LaBt
Post'and then the reveille.
The attaok of cerebral
thrombosis from which
Sri Pant died was his
second in two months.
The fisrt ocoured a few
d iys before the Bh'avnagar
session of the Congress at
the beginning of the year
The final attack Same
shortly before H p. in. on
February 2>.* at the end
of a busy, day, and it
was ■ apparent from the.
start that this was of a
most severe kind.
* * »
One of the Congress
Party's "OIJ Guard", Go-
vind Ballabh Pant, Bharat
Ratna, was born in Sep-
tember I8-.7. After bis
school days at Almora,
he graduated from Muir
Central College, Allahabad,
and obtained his LL.B.
from the Allahabad Uni-
versity School of Law.
Unlike most prominent
nationalist leaders Mr Pant
joined the Congress before
Gandhiji bad transformed
it from a olnb to a
fighting organization. He
attended the Congress
session at Banaras in 1905
and bseame a number of
the AICC in 19.6.
In 1923 lie joined the
Swaraj P*rty of Deshban-
dhu l)a< and was eleoted
to the U. P. Legislative
Counoil on that party's
tioket, becoming its leader
in the Council. In 1927
be became president of
the ,UPPCC>nd continued,
in thaV capacity till 19,30r •
In 1928 he and Mr. Nehru
led a demonstration
against .the Simon Com-
mission at Luoknbw. . He
was severely beaten and
.was incapacitated for a
long time He was impri
Bpnedin the 1930 and
1932 civil disobedience
movements.
' In the 1937 general
eleotion, following the in-
troduction of provincial
autonomy, he was eleoted
to the newly formed U P.
Assembly and became
Chief Minister of that
State.' He and his Cabinet
colleagues resigned in 1939
when the Congress with-
drew its Ministries in pro-
test against involving India
in the war without her
consent.
In 1940 Mr Pant partici-
pated in the individual
satyaeraha initiated by
Gandhiji and' was sent to
prison for a year. In 1942
he was arrested, along with
other mem hers of the Work-
ing Committee, and kept
in detention until March
1945.
Mr. Pant was elected
to the U. P. Assembly in
the 1946 general election
arid again became Chief
Minister of that State.
He was also elected to
the Constituent Assembly
and was a member of
several of ite committees.
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Three
PANDIT GOVltiD BALLABH PANT DEAD,
Grim 14-day Battle1 with Death
New Delbi, Maroh 7.
On a tongue of land
jutting into- the Jamub*
and watched by nearly
160,000 people, the body
of Sri G. B. Pant was
cremated this evening after
the last rites had been
performed by his son, Sri
K. C. Pant.
Throughout last night
Doctors had fought a last-
ditch battle to save Sri
Pant's'life. But he failed
to respond to treatment.
The last hours were very
peaceful. PunditB were
reciting from the Gita
when the end came at
8-60 A. M.
Around the funeral
pyre stood the President,
Dr. Raj end ra Prasad, the
Vice-President, Dr. Rariba
krishnan, Governors from
four States, five Chief
Ministers and Sri Pin t's
Cabinet colleagues headed
by Sri Morarji Desai.
The final ceremony
was heralded by three
volleys of small arms fire
by a firing party of 12
and after a short interval,
buglers sounded the LaBt
Post'and then the reveille.
The attaok of cerebral
thrombosis from which
Sri Pant died was his
second in two months.
The fisrt ocoured a few
d iys before the Bh'avnagar
session of the Congress at
the beginning of the year
The final attack Same
shortly before H p. in. on
February 2>.* at the end
of a busy, day, and it
was ■ apparent from the.
start that this was of a
most severe kind.
* * »
One of the Congress
Party's "OIJ Guard", Go-
vind Ballabh Pant, Bharat
Ratna, was born in Sep-
tember I8-.7. After bis
school days at Almora,
he graduated from Muir
Central College, Allahabad,
and obtained his LL.B.
from the Allahabad Uni-
versity School of Law.
Unlike most prominent
nationalist leaders Mr Pant
joined the Congress before
Gandhiji bad transformed
it from a olnb to a
fighting organization. He
attended the Congress
session at Banaras in 1905
and bseame a number of
the AICC in 19.6.
In 1923 lie joined the
Swaraj P*rty of Deshban-
dhu l)a< and was eleoted
to the U. P. Legislative
Counoil on that party's
tioket, becoming its leader
in the Council. In 1927
be became president of
the ,UPPCC>nd continued,
in thaV capacity till 19,30r •
In 1928 he and Mr. Nehru
led a demonstration
against .the Simon Com-
mission at Luoknbw. . He
was severely beaten and
.was incapacitated for a
long time He was impri
Bpnedin the 1930 and
1932 civil disobedience
movements.
' In the 1937 general
eleotion, following the in-
troduction of provincial
autonomy, he was eleoted
to the newly formed U P.
Assembly and became
Chief Minister of that
State.' He and his Cabinet
colleagues resigned in 1939
when the Congress with-
drew its Ministries in pro-
test against involving India
in the war without her
consent.
In 1940 Mr Pant partici-
pated in the individual
satyaeraha initiated by
Gandhiji and' was sent to
prison for a year. In 1942
he was arrested, along with
other mem hers of the Work-
ing Committee, and kept
in detention until March
1945.
Mr. Pant was elected
to the U. P. Assembly in
the 1946 general election
arid again became Chief
Minister of that State.
He was also elected to
the Constituent Assembly
and was a member of
several of ite committees.
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