Special Cover on Second death anniversary of Late Shri Kailashpati Mishra - 3rd November 2014.

On the second death anniversary of Late Shri Kailashpati Mishra, Department of Posts issued a Special Cover on 3rd November 2014 at Patna. Union Law, Justice, Communications and IT Minister Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, released the Special Cover jointly with BJP leaders Shri Murli Manohar Joshi, Syed Shahnawaz Hussain, Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan, and other BJP leaders at the function held at Shri Krishna Memorial hall, Patna. Shri Radha Mohan Singh thanked for issuing a special cover on Shri Kailashpati Mishra, and requested to issue a commemorative stamp on the departed leader by next year.

Shri Kailashpati Mishra (b. 5 October 1923 – d. 3 November 2012) was a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party and a former Governor of Gujarat and for a short duration Governor of Rajasthan. He was born in Dudharchak, Buxar, Bihar, into a Bhumihar Brahmin family. He was a bachelor and popularly called the "Bhishmapitamah" of Bihar. He was affiliated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh from 1944 onwards, and was jailed after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. He took part in the Quit India Movement in 1942 and was arrested for the same and was a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh from 1943. He won the Assembly election for Bikram Patna, and was Finance Minister in Bihar Government. Mishra was also appointed Bihar's finance minister in 1977-78 when the Janata Party government was in power.

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