Brish Bhan | |
Birth Date: | 9 September 1908 |
Death Date: | 29 April 1988 |
Death Place: | Chandigarh |
Office: | 3rd Chief Minister of PEPSU |
Term Start: | 12 January 1955 |
Term End: | 1 November 1956 |
Predecessor: | Raghbir Singh |
Successor: | Post abolished |
Constituency: | Kalayat |
Office3: | Deputy Premier of PEPSU |
Term3: | 23 May 1951 - 21 April 1952 |
Term2: | 8 March 1954 – 12 January 1955 |
Predecessor2: | post established |
Successor2: | post abolished |
Office4: | Member of Punjab Legislative Assembly |
Term Start4: | 1962 |
Term End4: | 1967 |
Constituency4: | Sunam |
Term Start5: | 1967 |
Term End5: | 1969 |
Constituency5: | Lehra |
Party: | Indian National Congress |
Children: | Justice Ashok Bhan and 2 others |
Babu Brish Bhan was a freedom fighter and the last Chief Minister and one and only deputy chief minister of PEPSU.[1]
He completed his law from Law College Lahore in 1932. In 1951 and then in 1954 he became the deputy chief minister under the chief ministership of Raghbir Singh. After the death of Raghbir Singh he became the Chief Minister in 1955.
After the merger of PEPSU with Punjab State on 1 November 1956 following the States Reorganisation Act,[2] he became the member of Punjab Legislative Assembly in 1962 from Sunam Assembly Constituency and then in 1967 from Lehra Assembly Constituency.
He died on 29 April 1988 and the Babu Brish Bhan DAV School at Moonak in Sangrur district is named after him.[3]