Bharatiya Janata Party also organised a function to celebrate the birth anniversary of Sri Babu. The BJP functionaries who addressed the function included Rajya Sabha member and senior BJP leader C. P. Thakur, leader of opposition in the state assembly Prem Kumar and former Union minister Sanjay Paswan. The party's senior functionaries on Sunday hailed the state's first CM, Sinha, a Congress man, as the tallest leader who achieved all-round development of the state under his rule. On the 127th Birth Anniversary of Sinha in 2014, the present minister of communication (independent charge) and minister of state for railways in prime minister Narendra Modi's Cabinet, Shri Manoj Sinha praised Sinha for being a practitioner of good governance from the day he took over the reins of the state. He said, "Today everybody in the country and the world over has been talking about good governance. Sri Babu was its 'pratimoorti (embodiment)'". The minister, who is a Member of Parliament from Ghazipur in UP, surprised the audience by saying that his elder uncle had been Sinha's private secretary for five years. He said, "Sri Babu, earlier, was influenced by Sri Aurobindo and Surendranath Banerjee, and pledged in the Ganga at Munger to dedicate his life to the service of the country, holding a copy of the Gita in one hand and a 'kripan' in another. Later, he came under the spell of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and was considered a 'garam dal neta' like him. However, in 1916, he heard the speech of Mahatma Gandhi at Kamakhya. There he realized that this man alone could lead the struggle for country's independence. After that, he became his lifelong follower." See also List of Chief Ministers of Bihar References External links Sri Babu & Anugrah Babu Bihar's first exemplary government:The Sri Babu-Anugrah Babu regime Rajendra Prasad :Letters to Sri Babu & Anugrah Babu Shri Babu, Anugrah Babu & Rajendra Babu:Bihar's builders 1887 births 1961 deaths Indian independence activists from Bihar Indian National Congress politicians Chief Ministers of Bihar Finance Ministers of Bihar Members of the Constituent Assembly of India University of Calcutta alumni Bihar district councillors People from Munger district People from Nawada district Members of the Central Legislative Assembly of India Bihar MLAs 1952–1957 Bihar MLAs 1957–1962 Chief ministers from Indian National Congress