Giri, Varahagiri Venkata

Giri, Varahagiri Venkata

▪ president of India
born Aug. 10, 1894, Berhampore [now Brahmapur], India
died June 24, 1980, Madras [now Chennai]

      statesman, president of India from 1969 to 1974.

      Giri began his education at Khallikote College, Berhampore (Brahmapur), and then went to Dublin to study law. There he became engaged in the Sinn Féin (Irish political party) movement and was expelled from Ireland in 1916. Upon his return to India, he joined the nascent labour movement. He became general secretary and then president of the All-India Railwaymen's Federation and was twice president of the All-India Trade Union Congress, an organization closely linked with the Indian National Congress (Congress Party).

      When the Congress Party formed a government in Madras state (now Tamil Nadu (Tamil Nādu)) in 1937, Giri became minister of labour and industries. With the resignation of the Congress governments and the launching of the anti-British “quit India” movement in 1942, he returned to the labour movement and was subsequently imprisoned with his colleagues.

      After India became independent, he was appointed high commissioner in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and in 1952 was elected to the Lok Sabha, one of the two chambers of the Indian Parliament. He was made minister of labour in the central Indian government but resigned in 1954. After this Giri was appointed successively to the largely ceremonial governorships of Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, and Mysore (now Karnataka (Karnātaka)). In 1967 he was elected vice president of India.

      On the death of President Zakir Husain (Husain, Zakir) in 1969, Giri became acting president and announced his intention to stand for the presidency. By that time the office, until then largely ceremonial, had become a prize in the developing factional struggle within the Congress Party. The party's nomination went to another candidate. Indira Gandhi (Gandhi, Indira), the prime minister, supported Giri, however, and he was elected by a narrow majority. In 1974 he was succeeded in office by Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (Ahmed, Fakhruddin Ali).

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