Jagdeo Prasad

Babu Jagdeo Prasad
Statue of Jagdeo Prasad near Jagdeo Path, Bir Chand Patel Path (Patna)
Born(1922-02-02)February 2, 1922
Kurhari, Jahanabad district, Bihar, India
Died (aged 52)
Kurtha, Jahanabad district, Bihar, India
NationalityIndian
Alma materPatna University
Political partyShoshit Samaj Dal
MovementBihar Movement
Parents
  • Prayag Narayan Dangi (father)
  • Raskali (mother)

Babu Jagdeo Prasad (2 February 1922 – 5 September 1974), alternatively spelled as Jagdev Prasad and popularly known as Jagdev Babu, was an Indian politician and a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly who served as Bihar's deputy chief minister in 1968 for four days in the Satish Prasad Singh cabinet. A great socialist and a proponent of Arjak culture, he was the founder of Shoshit Dal (later Shoshit Samaj Dal) and was a staunch antagonist and critic of India's caste system. He was nicknamed as the "Lenin of Bihar".