Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan

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Technical Data

Stamp Set Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan
Date of Issue December 22, 2010
Denomination Rs. 5
Quantity 300,000
Perforation 13 x 13¼
Printer India Security Press, Nasik
Printing Process Photo Gravure
Watermark No Watermark
Colors Multicolor
Credit (Designed By) Smt. Alka Sharma
Catalog Codes

Michel IN 2539

Stamp Number IN 2477

Stanley Gibbons IN 2781

WADP Numbering System - WNS IN085.2010

Themes

Khudiram and Prafulla watched the usual movements of Kingsford and prepared a plan to kill him. On the evening of April 30, 1908, the duo waited in front of the gate, they threw bombs and blew up the carriage. However, the vehicle was not carrying Kingsford but two British ladies, Mrs. and Miss Kennedy, were killed. The revolutionaries fled from there and decided on separate routes for escape. Prafulla took on a disguise and boarded a train to Kolkata. Nandlal Banerjee, a Sub-Inspector of Police, suspected Prafulla at the Samastipur. Being surrounded by the Police at Mokameh station, he shot himself in the head on 02nd May, 1908. Khudiram Bose was later arrested and hanged to death.

In 1962 Shri Y.B. Chavan was called to Delhi by the then Prime Minister, Shri Jawahar Lal Nehru, to join the Central cabinet as Defence Minister. Subsequently, he held the high offices of Union Home Minister from 1966 to 1970, Union Finance Minister from 1970 to 1974 and the Union Foreign Minister from 1974 to 1977. For a brief period he also held the offices of Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister during the year 1979. He also served as Chairman of the 8th Finance Commission.

Shri Y.B. Chavan was voracious reader and his writings in Marathi also have a distinct literary quality. He wished to write his autobiography. However, only the first volume entitled “Krishna Kath” could be completed before he passed away on 25 November, 1984, after a brief illness.

A freedom fighter who cherished the values of democracy, socialism, and secularism, Shri Y.B. Chavan’s political career was testimony to the openness and dynamism of Indian democracy which saw a grassroots political worker rise to become a mature, sagacious and widely respected national leader.

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