Shankarrao Deo | |||||||||||
Native Name: | शंकरराव देव | ||||||||||
Birth Date: | 4 January 1894 | ||||||||||
Death Date: | 30 December 1974 (aged 80) | ||||||||||
Nationality: | British Indian Indian | ||||||||||
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Party: | Indian National Congress | ||||||||||
Office1: | Member of Constituent Assembly of India | ||||||||||
Term1: | 9 December 1946 – 24 January 1950 | ||||||||||
Constituency1: | Bombay |
Shankarrao Deo (January 4, 1894 - December 30, 1974)[1] also known as Nanasaheb Deo was an Indian freedom fighter and social activist. He was the founder of Satkaryottejak Sabha.[2] [3]
He participated in Quit India Movement and was arrested.[4] He served as general secretary of Congress in 1947.[5]
He was a member of Constituent Assembly of India in 1949.[6] He was First Secretary of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee, 1920, and General secretary of the Congress, 1946–50, where he played a key role during the drafting of the Constitution of India and the transfer-of-power negotiations.[7]