A Patriot Monk - Swami Vivekanada

A veteran, intelligent, great leader and a great visionary Shanta Kumar is a former Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh and a former cabinet minister in Government of India. Born in a village in the foothills of Dhauladhar mountain ranges of kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, Shanta Kumar joined politics in 1953 when he was hardly 19 years and was arrested during Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee’s Kashmir Andolan. shanta Kumar started his public life as village panch of his village panchayat. He was elected to the Panchayat Samiti, Zila parishad, vidhan Sabha and then Lok Sabha. He also represented India in United Nations as a member of Parliamentary delegation in 2011.