Name : Ram Manohar Lohia
Date of birth : March 23, 1910
Date of Death : October 12, 1967
Place of birth : Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Place of death : New Delhi
Nationality: Indian
Gender: Male
Father : Hari Lal
Mother : Chanda
Ram Manohar Lohia was an Indian freedom fighter and a socialist political leader. He was born on March 23, 1910 in a village named Akbarpur in Faizabad district, Uttar Pradesh, in India. His father, Hari Lal, was a firm believer in the ideology of the congress. His mother, Chanda died when he was very young.Hari Lal, an ardent follower of Mahatma Gandhi, took his son along on a meeting with the Mahatma. This meeting deeply influenced Lohia and sustained him during trying circumstances and helped seed his thoughts, actions and love for swaraj. Ram was so impressed by Gandhiji's spiritual power and radiant self-control that he pledged to follow the Mahatma's footsteps. He proved his allegiance to Gandhi, and more importantly to the movement as a whole, by joining a satyagraha march at the age of ten.
In 1929, Ram Manohar Lohia completed his B.A. from Calcutta University. After completing his education, Lohia received a scholarship and went to Germany to conduct research in Economics. After his return he joined the Congress Socialist Party. For some time, he edited the Party’s weekly newsletter ‘Congress Socialist’. He actively participated in the country’s freedom struggle and went to jail several times. In 1948, he resigned from the Congress and joined the Communist Party. He was chosen chief secretary of the party.
Dr Lohia was a powerful orator. His style of delivering speeches was utterly original. When he was a Member of Parliament, Pt Nehru respected his policies and ideology. Whether Dr Lohia made speeches inside the Parliament or outside, the audience would listen to him spellbound, and there would be pindrop silence in the hall. Almost all the top Congress leaders feared confrontation with him. He led an extremely simple and austere life. So people called him a “political sage”.
Lohia died on October 12, 1967 in New Delhi.
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