Lala Achint Ram
| Lala Achint Ram | |
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| Member of the Indian Parliament for Hissar |
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In office 1952–1957 |
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| Preceded by | Office created |
| Succeeded by | Thakur Das Bhargava |
| Member of Parliament for Patiala |
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In office 1957–1961 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
19 August 1898 Amritsar, Punjab |
| Died | 1961 |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Political party | Indian National Congress |
| Spouse(s) | Satyavati Devi |
| Children | Nirmala and Subhadra (daughters) Krishna Kant(son) |
| Alma mater | D. A. V. College, Lahore |
| Religion | Hinduism |
Lala Achint Ram (19 August 1898 – 1961) was an Indian freedom fighter, Gandhian and a member of the Indian National Congress party.
He was one of the first three members of Servants of the People Society, established by Lala Lajpat Rai in Lahore in 1921. During the Indian independence movement, he was imprisoned for extended periods, including 1930–32, 1939, 1940 and 1942–45 for his participation in the Quit India Movement. Post-partition, he shifted to Delhi, and also remained a member of the Constituent Assembly of India. He won his 1st Lok Sabha elections from the Hissar (Lok Sabha constituency) in Punjab in 1952 and the second time in 1957 from Patiala (Lok Sabha constituency). Though the 1950s, along with his wife, he was active in Bhoodan movement of Vinoba Bhave.
Achint Ram was born in August 1898 in Kot Mohammad Khan village in Khadur Sahib tehsil of Amritsar district of Punjab, 50 km from Amritsar. He was educated at government high schools in Amritsar and Shimla. For pursuing higher education he went to DAV College in Lahore (now in Pakistan).
In 1921, he was one of the first three members of Servants of the People Society founded by Lala Lajpat Rai.
He married Satyavati Devi in 1925. Also a freedom fighter herself, she was arrested on 26 August 1942, along with her three young children. She continued her protests inside the prison as well, and organised protests for better living conditions inside the prison. Even after independence, the family stayed back at Lajpat Bhawan in Lahore, where she cooked meals for hundreds of displaced refugees, before shifting themselves to Delhi in 1948. At the time of her death on 26 October 2010 at the age of 105, she was India's oldest surviving freedom fighter.
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