Babu Jagjivan Ram
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Context: PM pays tributes to Babu Jagjivan Ram on his birth anniversary.
About Jagjivan Ram:
- He was a crusader for social justice. Popularly known as Babuji, he dedicated his life for the betterment of the poor and downtrodden.
- He was a freedom fighter and Dalit Icon, he worked tirelessly for the "underprivileged and deprived section of the society.
- He was instrumental in the foundation of the All India Depressed Classes League in 1935, an organisation dedicated to attaining equality for untouchables.
- He was elected to Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1937, after which he organised the rural labour movement.
- In 1946, he became the youngest ministerin Jawaharlal Nehru's interim government, the first cabinet of India as a Labour Minister and also a member of the Constituent Assembly of India, where he ensured that social justice was enshrined in the Constitution.
- He was the Defence Minister of India during the Indo-Pak war of 1971, which resulted in the creation of Bangladesh.
- During his two tenures as Union Agriculture Minister his contribution to the Green Revolution in Indiaand modernising Indian agriculture, especially during 1974 drought is remembered.
- At his death, he was the last surviving minister of the Interim Government and the last surviving original member of the first cabinet of independent India.
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