Lalit Narayan Mishra

Lalit Narayan Mishra
Ministry of Planning, Labour and Employment
In office
1957–1960
Prime MinisterJawaharlal Nehru
Deputy Minister for Home Affairs
In office
26 February 1964  27 May 1964
Prime MinisterJawaharlal Nehru
In office
27 May 1964  9 June 1964
Prime MinisterGulzarilal Nanda
In office
9 June 1964  11 January 1966
Prime MinisterLal Bahadur Shastri
In office
11 January 1966  24 January 1966
Prime MinisterGulzarilal Nanda
Succeeded byPurnendu Sekhar Naskar
Deputy Finance Minister
In office
24 January 1966  13 March 1967
Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi
Preceded byRameshwar Sahu
Succeeded byJagannath Pahadia
Minister of State of Labour, Employment and Rehabilitation
In office
13 March 1967 (1967-03-13)  14 November 1967
Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi
Preceded byJagannath Rao
Succeeded byBhagwat Jha Azad
Minister of State for Defence Production
In office
14 November 1967  27 June 1970
Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi
Preceded byBali Ram Bhagat
Succeeded byNarendrasinghji Mahida
Minister of Foreign Trade
In office
27 June 1970  4 February 1973
Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi
Preceded byBali Ram Bhagat
Succeeded byD. P. Chattopadhyaya
MInister of Railways
In office
4 February 1973  3 January 1975
Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi
Preceded byT. A. Pai
Succeeded byKamalapati Tripathi
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
17 April 1952  4 April 1957
ConstituencyDarbhanga cum Bhagalpur, Bihar
In office
5 April 1957  31 March 1962
ConstituencyDarbhanga, Bihar
In office
15 March 1971  January 3 1975
ConstituencyDarbhanga, Bihar
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
In office
18 February 1964  2 April 1966
ConstituencyBihar
In office
3 April 1966  2 April 1972
ConstituencyBihar
Personal details
Born(1923-02-02)2 February 1923
Basanpatti, Supaul District, Bihar and Orissa, British India
Died3 January 1975(1975-01-03) (aged 51)
Samastipur, Bihar, India
Manner of deathAssassination
Political partyIndian National Congress
EducationMaster of Arts
Alma materPatna University
OccupationPolitician

Lalit Narayan Mishra (2 February 1923 – 3 January 1975) was an Indian politician who served as Minister of Railways in the government of India from 1973 to 1975. His political career started when he was made parliamentary secretary to the First Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru at the insistence of Dr. Sri Krishna Sinha, the first Chief Minister of Bihar. In 1975, he died in a bomb blast at Samastipur railway station. The court case against the perpetrators was delayed for years and was finally completed in December 2014.