Career
He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Burma from 1948 to 1949 and again from 1953 to 1958. He subsequently became a leader of the Stable AFPFL faction alongside Ba Swe. He died in Rangoon in 1986.
He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Burma from 1948 to 1949 and again from 1953 to 1958. He subsequently became a leader of the Stable AFPFL faction alongside Ba Swe. He died in Rangoon in 1986.
He was also the first Burmese Home Affairs Minister from 1947 to 1948 and the second Foreign Affairs Minister from 1948 to 1949 after independence and General Secretary of his party from 1946 to 1958 as a Socialist Staunch leader in Anti-Fascist People"s Freedom League from 1946 to 1958 until the split in the party. He has been called "the brain of Burma"s drive to socialism.".