Babu Jagjivan Ram

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Context: PM pays tributes to Babu Jagjivan Ram on his birth anniversary.

About Jagjivan Ram:

He was a crusader for social justice. Popularly known as Babuji, he dedicated his life for the betterment of the poor and downtrodden.
He was a freedom fighter and Dalit Icon, he worked tirelessly for the "underprivileged and deprived section of the society.
He was instrumental in the foundation of the All India Depressed Classes League in 1935, an organisation dedicated to attaining equality for untouchables.
He was elected to Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1937, after which he organised the rural labour movement.
In 1946, he became the youngest ministerin Jawaharlal Nehru's interim government, the first cabinet of India as a Labour Minister and also a member of the Constituent Assembly of India, where he ensured that social justice was enshrined in the Constitution.
He was the Defence Minister of India during the Indo-Pak war of 1971, which resulted in the creation of Bangladesh.
During his two tenures as Union Agriculture Minister his contribution to the Green Revolution in Indiaand modernising Indian agriculture, especially during 1974 drought is remembered.
At his death, he was the last surviving minister of the Interim Government and the last surviving original member of the first cabinet of independent India.