George Fernandes
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"George Mathew Fernandes" is a former Indian trade unionist, politician, journalist, agriculturist, and member of Rajya Sabha from Bihar. He was a key member of the Janata Dal (United)/Janata Dal, and is the founder of the Samata Party. He has held several ministerial portfolios including communications, Minister of Commerce and Industry (India)/industry, Minister of Railways (India)/railways, and Ministry of Defence (India)/defence, and was the only Christian minister in Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's cabinet.

A native of Mangalore, Fernandes was sent to Bangalore in 1946 to be trained as a Roman Catholic priest/priest. In 1949 he moved to Bombay, where he joined the socialist trade union movement. Becoming a fiery trade union leader, Fernandes organised many strikes and bandhs in Bombay in the 1950s and 1960s. The most notable agitation he organised was the 1974 Railway strike, when he was President of the All India Railwaymen's Federation. Fernandes went underground during the The Emergency (India)/Emergency era of 1975, while challenging Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for imposing a state of emergency, but in 1976 he was arrested and tried in the infamous Baroda dynamite case.

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