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Ram Sundar Das was born on 9 January, 1921 in Gangajal, Bihar and Orissa Province, British India, is an Indian politician (1921–2015). Discover Ram Sundar Das's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 94 years old?

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Occupation Politician
Age 94 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 9 January 1921
Birthday 9 January
Birthplace Gangajal, Bihar and Orissa Province, British India
Date of death 2015
Died Place Patna, Bihar, India
Nationality India

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1921

Ram Sundar Das (9 January 1921 – 6 March 2015) was an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Bihar state.

He was a two-time Member of Parliament from Hajipur constituency.

Das was born on 9 January 1921 into Chamar caste in Gangajal near Sonpur, Saran District in Bihar.

He matriculated from a school in Sonpur and attended Vidyasagar College in Calcutta.

He dropped out of college to join the Indian freedom movement.

1942

He played an active role in 1942 Quit India Movement.

Das served as a functionary in Congress Socialist Party in his native place Sonpur.

The Congress Socialist Party, through a series of mergers became a part of the Praja Socialist Party (PSP).

Das served as member of PSP's Bihar Provincial Executive Council.

1956

He was married to Savita Devi in 1956 and had three children, two sons and one daughter.

1957

In 1957 Lok Sabha elections, he was Socialists' losing candidate from Hajipur.

Later he would win the seat twice.

1968

In 1968, he was elected as a Member of Bihar's legislative council and continued in this role until 1977.

1977

In the 1977 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, that led to a decisive defeat of the ruling Indian National Congress at the hands of Janata party, Das was elected as the MLA for Sonpur.

Janata Party was a recent amalgam of disparate groups including Indian National Congress (O), Bharatiya Lok Dal, Socialists and Jana Sangh.

In fight in the party broke over the question of Chief Minister, Karpoori Thakur's decision to implement the Mungeri Lal Commission report, that recommended the institution of reservations for Backward Castes in government jobs.

Upper caste members of Janata Party tried to water down the reservation policy by unseating Thakur as Chief Minister.

To wean away Dalit MLAs, Das, a Dalit himself, was nominated as the candidate.

Though Das and Thakur were both Socialist, Das was considered more moderate and accommodative than the Chief Minister.

1979

Thakur resigned and Das became the Chief Minister of Bihar on 21 April 1979.

The reservation law was weakened by allowing upper castes to obtain a greater percentage of government jobs.

1980

The internal tensions in Janata Party caused it to split into multiple factions which led to Congress returning to power in 1980.

In the late 1980s, some of the remnants of Janata Party had come together to form Janata Dal, which formed a coalition government at the national level following the 1989 Indian general election.

1990

In 1990 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Janata Dal won the largest number of seats and sought to form government with the outside support of BJP and Communists.

Das was a contender for Chief Ministership pitted against Raghunath Jha and Lalu Prasad Yadav.

Yadav was supported by Devi Lal and Nitish Kumar, Jha by Chandra Shekhar and Das by Prime Minister, VP Singh.

Lalu Yadav had campaigned vastly in favour for implementing Mandal Commission, which sought to reserve government jobs for backward castes in Central government jobs.

Das was less keen on this.

VP Singh's support of Das was interpreted as a lack of enthusiasm for this form of social engineering.

Nitish Kumar rallied backward caste MLAs towards Yadav.

In the election, Yadav won narrowly over Das by a vote of 59 to 56.

Jha won 12, mostly upper caste MLAs.

1995

Ironically he joined Chandra Shekhar's Samajwadi Janata Party around 1995 though Chandra Shekhar had opposed his candidature for CM's post.

2008

Ram Sundar Das remained with that party until 2008, and in another twist joined Janata Dal (United) that time, though those people had also opposed his candidature for CM's post back in 1990.

2015

He died on 6 March 2015 at the age of 94.