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Yashwantrao Chavan
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Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan (12 March 1913 - 25 November 1984) was the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra after the division of Bombay State, and subsequently Deputy Prime Minister of India. He was Chief Minister of Maharashtra from May 1, 1960 to November 19, 1962.
Yashwantrao Chavan was born in the village of Devrashtre in Karad Taluka of Satara District of Maharashtra State of India. He was from poor Maratha family.
Apart from being the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra, he occupied the high positions of Defence Minister, Home Minister, Finance Minister, Foreign Minister, and Deputy Prime Minister of India. Yashwantrao Chavan was commonly known as Chavan saheb. While he later championed the view associated with the term Sanyukta Maharashtra, under the influence of Jawaharlal Nehru he almost accepted a bilingual state of Maharashtra[citation needed].
Like Devraj Urs in neighbouring Karnataka, he left the Congress Party after Indira Gandhi's defeat following the Emergency in 1977, and joined the latter's Congress (Urs).
He had planned to write his autobiography in three parts. First part covering his early years in Satara district. His native place is situated on the banks of Krishna River and therefore the name of the first part was "Krishna Kath" (The bank of the Krishna River). In the middle phase of his political development he was the Chief Minister of bilingual Bombay state and later from 1 st May 1960, the newly formed Maharashtra state. All these years were spent in Mumbai so the proposed name for the second volume was "Sagar Tir". Later in 1962 he was appointed by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as the Defence Minister of India. Till 1984 he was in Delhi so he had proposed the name "Yamuna Kath" for his third volume. He was able to complete and publish only the first volume.
In 1989, an open university named 'Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University' was established in Maharashtra after his name.
 Yashwantrao with his wife |
 Yashwantrao Chavan |
| Preceded by Sardar Swaran Singh |
Minister for External Affairs of India 1974–1977 |
Succeeded by Atal Behari Vajpayee |
| Preceded by Post created |
Chief Minister of Maharashtra 1960–1962 |
Succeeded by Marotrao Kannamwar |
| Preceded by Indira Gandhi |
Finance Minister of India 1971–1975 |
Succeeded by C. Subramaniam |
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