Background
He was born on 25 April 1919 in Bughani, Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand.
He was born on 25 April 1919 in Bughani, Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand.
He studied in Doctorate.A.V. School and Messmore Inter College of Pauri Town.
The family later moved to Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh. Honored with "Proud Past Alumni" of Allahabad University. Their first son Vijay Bahuguna was the Chief Minister of Uttrakhand.
He was a former judge of Allahabad and Bombay High Court
Second son Shekhar Bahuguna.
Daughter Rita Bahuguna Joshi is also in politics and was Uttar Pradesh Congress Chief. Pre independence
= Students Parliament He passed 10th from Pauri and went to the Government Intermediate College in Allahabad in 1937 in the Bachelor or Science programme.
He received an Arts degree in 1946. = In jail He was jailed as a part of Quit India movement from 1942 to 1946.
Post independence
= Union Cabinet In 1971, he was made State Minister for Communication in the Union Cabinet.
= Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh In 1973, he was appointed as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state in India. However, his tenure was short and he was forced to resign by Prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1975. = Parting of ways with the Congress The Computational Fluid Dynamics joined the Janata alliance to contest the elections.
But, he soon left the party and resigned his seat subsequently.
= 1984 Lok Sabha Elections He contested against the congress candidate, Amitabh Bachchan, in 1984 Parliamentary elections from Allahabad constituency. Bahuguna fell ill in 1988 and flew to the United States for coronary bypass surgery.
The surgery was unsuccessful and he died 17 March 1989 in a Cleveland Hospital. Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University is Uttarakhand"s largest university, in Garhwal, is named after him.
In early 1977, when Indira Gandhi lifted the state emergency and called for new elections to the Lok Sabha, Bahuguna left the ruling Congress party of Indira and formed a new group called Congress for Democracy (Computational Fluid Dynamics) with Jagjivan Ram and Nandini Satpathy.