Guman Mal Lodha
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Guman Mal Lodha (1926 – 22 March 2009) was the chief justice of Gauhati High Court and former member of Lok Sabha.
He was Born in a Marwari Jain family [1][2] in 1926 in Didwana, Nagaur District in Rajasthan, India, Lodha graduated with BCom and LLB degrees at Jaswant College, Jodhpur.[3] He participated in the freedom movement and was imprisoned in 1942. He joined politics and was the President of Rajasthan state unit of Jan Sangh from 1969 to 1971.
Positions held
[edit]- 1969-71 President, Jan Sangh, Rajasthan
- 1972-77 Member, Rajasthan Legislative Assembly; chairman, Committee on Petitions and Committee on Delegated Legislation, Rajasthan Legislative Assembly Member, Business Advisory Committee and Panel of chairman, Rajasthan Legislative Assembly; Leader, Jan Sangh Legislature Party, Rajasthan
- 1978-88 Judge, Rajasthan High Court
- 1988 Chief Justice, Gauhati High Court, Guwahati
- 1989 Elected to Lok Sabha (Ninth)(pali loksabha constituency)
- 1989 onwards Member, National Executive, B.J.P.
- 1989-91 Chairman, Committee on Subordinate Legislation; Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Law and Justice
- 1990-91 Member, General Purposes Committee
- 1991 Re-elected to Lok Sabha (Tenth)(pali loksabha constituency)
- 1992-94 Member, Committee on Subordinate Legislation
- 1992-96 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Finance
- 1996 Elected to Lok Sabha (Eleventh) for the third time(pali loksabha constituency)
Lodha had been a judge in Rajasthan High court and retired as Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court. He had also been a worker for the cause of animals and cows in India. He served as the chairman for Animal Welfare Board of India and National Commission on Cattle. [citation needed]
He died on 22 March 2009, in Ahmedabad (Gujarat) after suffering from cancer for five years. People for Animals (PFA) Haryana Chairman Naresh Kadyan, representative of OIPA in India, announced a "Justice Guman Mal Lodha Memorial National Award" to the former Superintendent of Faridabad Police Srikant Jadhav, IPS. [citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ "Lokatantra – vidhansabhacandidates". www.lokatantra.in. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
- ^ Kumar, Saurabh (15 November 2015). "BJP reaches out to Muslims". www.asianage.com. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
- ^ "lsrj01". Parliamentofindia.nic.in. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
External links
[edit]- Guman Mal Lodha's obituary Archived 7 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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