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R. R. Diwakar
Diwakar (right) with Godwin Mbikusita Lewanika (left), 1950

Governor of Bihar
In office 15 June 1952 – 5 July 1957
Preceded by	Madhav Shrihari Aney
Succeeded by	Zakir Husain
Minister of Information and Broadcasting
In office 1 April 1949 – 15 April 1952
Prime Minister	Jawaharlal Nehru
Preceded by	Vallabhbhai Patel
Succeeded by	B. V. Keskar
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office 3 April 1962 – 2 April 1968
Constituency	Nominated

Personal details
Born	Ranganath Ramachandra Diwakar (1894-09-30)30 September 1894
Died	15 January 1990(1990-01-15) (aged 95)
Political party	Indian National Congress
Occupation	Politician, writer

Ranganath Ramachandra Diwakar (30 September 1894 – 15 January 1990) was an Indian writer and politician from Karnataka.

Biography

R. R. Diwakar was born on 30 September 1894. From the very beginning, he was interested in writing. He made many efforts to unify the Kannada linguistic regions.

He 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. He served as the Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting in the Nehru cabinet (from 1 April 1949 to 15 April 1952).

He 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 the Governor of Bihar (15 June 1952 to 5 July 1957). He was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1962 from Karnataka where he served till 1968.

After 1968, he distanced himself from politics and wrote several books in English, Kannada and Hindi. He died on 15 January 1990.

References

"Obituary References - Second Session of the Ninth Lok Sabha" (PDF). Lok Sabha Debates. 2 (1): 19. 8 July 1992. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
Sarkar, C., ed. (1990). Vidura. C. Sarkar. p. 38. Retrieved 28 February 2018.

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Political offices
Preceded byMadhav Shrihari Aney	Governor of Bihar 1952–1957	Succeeded byZakir Hussain

v t e Governors of Bihar
James Sifton Maurice Garnier Hallett Thomas Alexander Stewart Thomas George Rutherford Francis Mudie Thomas George Rutherford Hugh Dow Jairamdas Daulatram Madhav Shrihari Aney R. R. Diwakar Zakir Hussain M. A. S. Ayyangar Nityanand Kanungo Dev Kant Baruah Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare Jagannath Kaushal Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai P. Venkatasubbaiah Govind Narayan Singh R.D. Pradhan Jagannath Pahadia Mohammad Saleem Mohammad Shafi Qureshi Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai Sunder Singh Bhandari V. C. Pande M R Jois Buta Singh Gopalkrishna Gandhi R. S. Gavai R. L. Bhatia Devanand Konwar D. Y. Patil Keshari Nath Tripathi Ram Nath Kovind Keshari Nath Tripathi* Satya Pal Malik Lalji Tandon Phagu Chauhan Rajendra Arlekar
*Acting

Governors of Bihar

*Acting

v t e Ministers of information and broadcasting
Vallabhbhai Patel R. R. Diwakar B. V. Keskar Satya Narayan Sinha Indira Gandhi Nandini Satpathy Inder Kumar Gujral Vidya Charan Shukla L. K. Advani Purushottam Kaushik Vasant Sathe H. K. L. Bhagat V. N. Gadgil Ajit Kumar Panja P. Upendra Chandra Shekhar Ajit Kumar Panja K. P. Singh Deo P. A. Sangma Jaipal Reddy Arun Jaitley Sushma Swaraj Ravi Shankar Prasad Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi Ambika Soni Manish Tewari Prakash Javadekar Arun Jaitley Venkaiah Naidu Smriti Irani Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Prakash Javadekar Anurag Thakur(incumbent)

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