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continued to sleep on the floor. One local villager recalls of him "He was so honest that he did nothing for himself, nor gave his own village any undue favours". In his village we can find the name boards displayed with his name everywhere and one of the boards in the right side of the road reads "Bhola Paswan
Shastri Gram". Local MLA from Dhamdaha, Leshi Singh got a community building built near his ancestral home. However, we find the bylanes of village have open drains and there is very little work available locally for residents and hence waiting for jobs. Even his family sometimes travels to Purnea for work.
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Shastri was born in poor home and his father used to work in the home of royal family of
Darbhanga. Though members from his caste were not encouraged to study he took interest and went till Kashi Vishwavidyalaya. He never forgot his community and always stood with them. He had no children and in July
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Irrespective of his short tenures as Chief
Minister, his village remembers him as a favoured son, a three-term Chief Minister. Local villagers recall him as a person who refused to accumulate personal wealth and lived in a hut for a home even long after the end of his third and last tenure and who
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He first became Bihar Chief
Minister for 100 days in the unstable fourth Bihar Assembly (1967-1968), but Congress lost majority and a mid-term poll was called. Harihar Singh's Congress government collapsed when Congress split in June 1969. Bhola Paswan Shastri sided with Congress (Org) faction and
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Minister for the first time though this term lasted only three months. Also, it was for the first time in Bihar, a Dalit became Chief Minister. He became Chief Minister for second time for 13 days in 1969 and for third time in 1971 for 7 months before political
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became chief minister for 13 days. But his coalition proved unstable. In June 1971, he joined Indira Gandhi's
Congress (R) faction and became chief minister for 7 months during the run-in to 1972 vidhan sabha polls.
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430:References
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