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A portrait of President V. V. Giri, on a 25 paise stamp.
V. V. Giri
India Post issued this stamp on 24 August 1974, when Varahagiri Venkata Giri retired as President of India. Born at Berhampur on 10 August 1894, he met Gandhi in London in 1914 and joined the freedom movement, and was a founder of the trade union movement in India, representing Indian labour at the Second Round Table Conference in 1931. He was a minister in Madras, India’s first High Commissioner in Ceylon, Union Labour Minister, and Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Kerala and Mysore, before becoming Vice-President in 1967 and President in August 1969. This text draws on India Post’s folder for the issue.
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