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About Shrikant Verma
- Shrikant Verma (18 September 1931 – 25 May 1986) was an Indian poet and a Member of Parliament from Madhya Pradesh as an INC candidate from 1976 to 1982 and 1982 to 1986.
- Verma died of cancer in 1986 in New York. Verma was married to Veena Verma who was also a Member of Parliament from Madhya Pradesh.
- Verma's son Abhishek Verma is an Indian arms dealer and was declared youngest billionaire of India in 1997.Verma was born in Bilaspur city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
- He graduated from Nagpur University with a Master of Arts degree in Hindi.
- He has authored twenty books.Verma was awarded Tulsi Samman for Jalsagar from Madhya Pradesh Government in 1976 and Shiksha Samman from Madhya Pradesh State Kala Parishad in 1981.
- In 1982, he presided over the Afro-Asian Writer's Conference hosted in New Delhi.
- In 1987, he was posthumously awarded the Sahitya Academy Award for Magadh.
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