nuclear power expert Sachida Nagdev, contemporary Indian artist Asghar Ali Engineer, Indian reformist, writer and social activist Raghunandan Sharma, politician Satyanarayan Jatiya, politician Pushpa Devi Singh, politician B. M. Choudary, inorganic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate G. V. R. Prasad, paleontologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate Babulal Gaur, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Zafar Ahmad Nizami, former Dean of Political Science department of Jamia Millia Islamia and renowned author of Urdu. Thawar Chand Gehlot, 19th Governor of Karnataka and former BJP MLA Kantilal Bhuria, is an Indian politician and a member of Indian National Congress and was till July 2011 the Minister of Tribal Affairs of the Republic of India. References External links Vikram University website Educational institutions established in 1957 Buildings and structures in Ujjain 1957 establishments in Madhya Pradesh