Jogendra Nath Mandal
| Jogendranath Mandal | |
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| 1st Minister of Law and Justice | |
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In office 15 August 1947 – 8 October 1950 |
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| Monarch | George VI |
| Governor-General |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah Khawaja Nazimuddin |
| Prime Minister | Liaquat Ali Khan |
| 1st Minister of Labour | |
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In office 15 August 1947 – 8 October 1950 |
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| Monarch | George VI |
| President | Liaquat Ali Khan |
| Governor-General | Muhammad Ali Jinnah Khawaja Nazimuddin |
| 2nd Minister of Commonwealth and Kashmir Affairs | |
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In office 1 October 1949 – 8 October 1950 |
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| Monarch | George VI |
| Governor-General | Muhammad Ali Jinnah Khawaja Nazimuddin |
| Prime Minister | Liaquat Ali Khan |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
29 January 1904 Bengal, British India |
| Died | 5 October 1968 (aged 64) Bangaon, West Bengal, India |
| Citizenship | Indian (1904–1947) Pakistani (1947–1950) Indian(1950-1968) |
| Nationality | Indian/Pakistani |
| Political party | Muslim League |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Religion | Hinduism |
Jogendra Nath Mandal (Bengali: যোগেন্দ্রনাথ মণ্ডল; 29 January 1904 – 5 October 1968), was one of the central and leading Founding Fathers of modern state of Pakistan, and legislator serving as country's first minister of law and labour, and also was second minister of commonwealth and Kashmir affairs. An Indian and later Pakistani statesman who served as the first minister of law and labour in Pakistan. As leader of the Scheduled Castes (Dalits), Jogendranath had made common cause with the Muslim League in their demand for Pakistan, hoping that the Scheduled Castes would be benefited from it and joined the first cabinet in Pakistan as the Minister of Law and Labour. He migrated to India a few years after partition after submitting his resignation to Liaquat Ali Khan, the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, citing the anti-Hindu bias of Pakistani administration.
Following the partition of India on 15 August 1947 Mandal became a member and temporary chairman of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, and agreed to serve as the new state's first Minister for Law and Labour – becoming the highest-ranking Hindu member of the government. From 1947 to 1950 he lived in the port city of Karachi, which became Pakistan's capital.
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