Bal Krishna Kaul

Bal Krishna Kaul (18 June 1903 – 1979) was an Indian politician, an Indian National Congress worker, and an active participant of the struggle for Indian independence. He spent almost six years in jails during the struggle against British rule in India. After independence, he served as the Home and Finance Minister of Ajmer State 1952–1956 and later as Finance, Excise and Taxation Minister in the Rajasthan state government 1962–1967. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha (upper chamber of the Parliament of India) 1968–1974.

Childhood Kaul was born in Moradabad on 18 June 1903. Kaul studied up to Bachelor of Arts in Meerut.

Kaul moved to Ajmer in 1930 . The Chief Commissioner, Ajmer refused Kaul's wife permission to see her husband during the hunger strike. Kaul served as the Home and Finance Minister of Ajmer State, until the merger of Ajmer State with Rajasthan.

In Rajasthan politics Kaul contested the Ajmer City East seat in the 1957 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election. He was defeated by independent candidate Mahendra Singh, finishing in second place with 8,211 votes (31.89%). In 1957–1958 he led protests for Ajmer employees (arguing that former Ajmer State employees were discriminated against in the integration in to the Rajasthan state bureaucracy), and on 1 October 1958 he initiated conducted a 15-day hunger strike. Kaul was elected to the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly in the 1962 election, obtaining 22,961 votes (68.14%) in Ajmer City East. Subsequently he was named Finance, Excise and Taxation Minister in the Rajasthan state government.

Rajya Sabha parliamentarian In September 1968, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha. In 1971, he became a member of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament.