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{{infobox officeholder<br />
|name = R. R. Diwakar<br />
|image = File:Godwin Moikusita Lewanika with R.R. Diwakar April 1950.jpg<br />
|caption = Diwakar (''right'') with Godwin Mbikusita Lewanika (''left''), 1950<br />
|office = [[Governor of Bihar]]<br />
|term_start = 15 June 1952<br />
|term_end = 5 July 1957<br />
|predecessor = [[Madhav Shrihari Aney]]<br />
|successor = [[Zakir Husain (politician)|Zakir Husain]]<br />
|office1 = [[Minister of Information and Broadcasting (India)|Minister of Information and Broadcasting]]<br />
|term_start1 = 1 April 1949<br />
|term_end1 = 15 April 1952<br />
|predecessor1= [[Vallabhbhai Patel]]<br />
|successor1 = [[B. V. Keskar]]<br />
|primeminister1 = [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]<br />
|birth_name = Ranganath Ramachandra Diwakar<br />
|birth_date = {{birth date|1894|9|30|df=yes}}<br />
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1990|1|15|1894|9|30}}<br />
|occupation = Politician, writer<br />
|party = [[Indian National Congress]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Ranganath Ramachandra Diwakar''' (30 September 1894 – 15 January 1990)<ref>{{cite journal |date=8 July 1992 |title=Obituary References - Second Session of the Ninth Lok Sabha |url=https://eparlib.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/419/1/lsd_09_II_12_03_1990.pdf |journal=Lok Sabha Debates |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=19 |access-date=18 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Sarkar|editor1-first=C.|title=Vidura|date=1990|publisher=C. Sarkar|page=38|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_JZZAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=28 February 2018}}</ref> was an [[India]]n author and politician from [[Karnataka]].<br />
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==Details==<br />
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R. R. Diwakar was born on 30 September 1894. From the very beginning his interest was in writing. He made many efforts to unify the Kannada linguistic regions.<br />
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Diwakar joined the [[Indian National Congress]] during the independence movement. Later he became a member of the Constituent Assembly and Provisional Parliament of India from [[Bombay State]]. Diwakar ji served as the Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting in the Nehru cabinet (from 1 April 1949 to 15 April 1952).<br />
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Diwakar was elected as a member of the [[Rajya Sabha]] from [[Bombay State]] on 3 April 1952, but resigned on 13 June 1952. Within two days he was appointed as the [[Governor]] of [[Bihar]] (15 June 1952 to 5 July 1957).<br />
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He was nominated to the [[Rajya Sabha]] in 1962 from the state of Mysore (Karnataka) where he served till 1968.<br />
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After 1968, he distanced himself from politics, and Diwakar went on to author several books in English, Kannada and Hindi. He died of long life on 15 January 1990.<br />
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==Sources==<br />
*[http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/pre_member/1952_2003/d.pdf Brief Biodata]<br />
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