Thursday, July 18, 2013

Dr. Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya: Official Historian of the Congress


Born in Andhra Pradesh in 1880 in a poor family, Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya was a nationalist and important leader of freedom struggle.  He is famous for his defeat by Subhash Chandra Bose in 1939 he lost the Congress presidential election which was termed by Mahatma Gandhi as his own defeat. Subhash Chandra Bose was later expelled from the Congress Party.

A doctor by profession, he chose politics as his profession and was a member of All India Congress Committee and Congress Working Committee. In August, 1942, he was arrested during Quit India Movement and kept in prison for three years.  
In 1935 he wrote History of the Indian National Congress which was the official history of the party.

Sitaramayya was elected President of the  Indian National Congress in 1948. He served as the Governor of Madhya Pradesh in Independent India. He passed away in 1959.


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