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Babuji
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 31 December 2013 for Babu Banarasi Das (1912–1985), “Babuji”, freedom fighter and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was born on 8 July 1912 at Utarawli in Bulandshahr district and joined the freedom struggle so young that he had little formal schooling, yet he mastered Sanskrit, Urdu, Hindi and English. He was jailed many times and took part in the non-cooperation movement.
After independence he was elected unopposed to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly and served as minister, Speaker and Chief Minister. As Cooperative Minister he led the cooperative movement, which gave farmers economic independence, and the Cooperative Act of 1965; he pioneered agro-processing, championed the education of girls, opening more than 150 schools in Bulandshahr alone, and later sat in the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha. He died on 3 August 1985.
The stamp was designed by Anuj Kumar; India Security Press, Nashik printed 0.41 million, 0.1 million of them for the proponent.
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