Former Governors of Madhya Pradesh

Sh. B. P. Sitaramaiya Tenure : 01.11.1956 to 13.06.1957

Dr. Bhograju Pattabhi Sitaramaiya

• Started medical practice in 1906
• Scholar and Congress leader
• AICC member from 1916 to 1952
• Started publishing an english weekly "Janmbhoomi" from 1919
• Participated in the freedom struggle
• Jailed on a number of occasions
• Elected president of All-India Native States People's Council in 1936
• Member of Constituent Assembly from 1946 to 1949
• Member of interim Parliament as well
• Elected Congress president at Jaipur's national conclave in 1948-50
• Author of 1^st history account of Congress
• Authored a number of books :
• National Education - 1912
• Indian Nationalism - 1933
• Re-distribution of Indian provinces on language basis - 1916
• The Indian National Congress (Jubilee Commemoration Volume) - 1935
• Economic conquest of India
• Constitutions of the world
• Gandhi, Gandhism, and Socialism
• Hindu home rediscovered - 1936-37
• Why vote Congress ?
• Sixty years of Congress
• Fundamentals of Indian political problems
• Feather and stones
• History of Congress Vol. II
• Current history in questions and answers


• Invited questions after his speeches were over
• Always had lunch alone at 10:30 and dinner all alone at 7:30
• He never changed his food time, even if the Prime Minister and President were there
• Fond of touring, covered the whole of newly-formed Madhya Pradesh in just 2-3 months
• Austerity very high, used old paper and envelopes for writing his comments
• His own son was the PA, who took a token salary of Re. 1.00 p.m.
• He once expressed his personal displeasure over his role
• He was an able administrator