Chaturanan Mishra (7 April 1925 – 2 July 2011)[1] was an Indian politician and trade unionist.
[2] He contested the Giridih seat in the 1962 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, finishing second with 6,379 votes.
[2][11] Mishra was one of the two (along with Indrajit Gupta) first communist Union Ministers in Indian history.
[12] In May 1997 he also overtook the portfolios of Food, Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution as Union Minister.
Officially health factors were claimed as the rationale behind his exclusion, but the press speculated that the move was motivated by Mishra's opposition on the position of the party in opposing the introduction of President's Rule in Bihar.
[13] Mishra died in New Delhi at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences at the age of 86.