Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai | |
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Kidwai on a 1969 stamp of India | |
| Union Minister of Food and Agriculture | |
| In office 13 May 1952 – 24 October 1954 | |
| Prime Minister | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Preceded by | Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi |
| Succeeded by | Panjabrao Deshmukh |
| Union Minister of Communications | |
| In office 15 August 1947 – 15 April 1952 | |
| Prime Minister | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Amrit Kaur |
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| In office 13 May 1952 – 24 October 1954 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Jogendra Singh |
| Constituency | Bahraich |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 February 1894 |
| Died | 24 October 1954 (aged 60) |
| Party | Indian National Congress |
| Education | Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, now called Aligarh Muslim University |
| Khilafat Movement (1919-1922) | |
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Rafi Ahmed Kidwai (18 February 1894 – 24 October 1954) was a politician, an Indian independence activist and a socialist. Kidwai served as Minister of Agriculture in the interim government of India and as first Minister of Communications in the first cabinet of independent India. He was also the first Member of Parliament for Bahraich and before that a member of the Constituent Assembly.
He hailed from Barabanki District of Uttar Pradesh, in north India.