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Lalit Narayan Mishra

Indian politician (1923–1975)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Lalit Narayan Mishra 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.

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“Lalit Narayan Mishra” enters the record as indian politician (1923–1975). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lalit, Narayan and Mishra can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973, 1975, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lalit, Narayan and Mishra.
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“Lalit Narayan Mishra” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lalit, Narayan and Mishra provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1973, 1975 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lalit Narayan Mishra” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.