Rajan Sushant

Strongly opposed National Emergency, resultantly was put behind bars on 31.12.1975 at Chandigarh (Mohali) in Kamagata Maru Session of All India Congress; protested against Emergency in front of then Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi and remained in jail for 7-8 months in Central Jail Patiala, Hoshiapur and Jalandhar; Sat on Dharna for 11 months in 1982; led historical agitation of farmers of Shah Nehar Area in H.P. and benefited more than 50,000 farmers irrigating 38000 Acres of land by getting largest Irrigation Project of H.P. costing more than 300 crores; Led agitation for the cause of Pong Dam ousters and was put in Dharmshila Jail and got success in allotting 1373 Murabbas to Pong Dam outees in Rajasthan; remained in Shimla and Bilaspur Jails for the cause of farmers and youths; Led a movement for labourers which benefited one lakh and fifty thousand labourers of H.P. and for this was jailed for more than seven months; undertook Historical March from Kanyakumari to Kashmir (Lal Chowk) as convener of H.P. under the leadership of Dr. M. M. Joshi, the then National President of BJP and was among 65 dare devils who unfurled Tricolour (Tiranga) in Lal Chowk and had a narrow escape of rocket lanched by Terrorists; Member, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram

Indian politician