Ravishankar Shukla

Ravishankar Shukla  was a leader of the Indian National Congress, Indian independence movement activist, the Premier of the Central Provinces and Berar from 27 April 1946 to 25 January 1950, first chief minister of the reorganised Madhya Pradesh state from 1 November 1956 until his death on 31 December 1956, he was elected from Saraipali, Madhyapradesh now part of Chhattisgarh Pandit Ravi Shankar Shukla was born to Pandit Jagganath Shukla and Tulsi Devi on 2 August 1877, at Sagar in the Central Provinces of British India.Born into a wealthy family, his father and grandfather were rich and scholarly.

His father, Pandit Jagganath Shukla, came of a family which had resisted British rulers for three generations and his mother, Tulsi Devi, was industrious and a capable manageress.. Pandit Shukla was a great administrator.He was one of the first nationalist leaders to realise the sufferings of the people in the states ruled by Indian Princes.