radha raman shastri is a former speaker of the legislative assembly of himachal pradesh and education minister of himachal pradesh he is the national secretary of the nationalist congress party ncpshastri was born on 23 march 1943 at village sunog in tehsil chopal in the shimla district of himachal pradesh he started his career as sanskrit teacher in himachal pradesh education department served only for 8 years and was selected as lecturer for college cadre but resigned to participate in social and political activitiesestablished two periodicals namely himbala monthly and himyuvak weekly and edited successfully for 9 years digvijay printing press owened by him was raided during emergency by police 9 times and both the periodicals had to be stopped as these were being printed in my own pressduring emergency in 1975 he was arrested under maintenance of indian security act misa and remained in central jail nahan with other most senior leaders for 19 monthswas elected for himachal pradesh state assembly in 1977 immediately after the release from jailwas made chairman of hiamchal pradesh state tourism development corporation where he envisaged master plan to boost the tourism in the statewas also president of janta party district shimla immediately after its formationremained as general secretary of bhartiya janta party himachal pradesh continuously for 10 years wef 6 april 1980 to march 1990founded snatan dharm degree college in the interiors of district shimla at nerwa chopal which has been serving the people of this area by uplifting students educationally from weeker sections of different societiesagain he was elected as a member of state lagislative assembly in 1990 and was elected speaker of hp state assembly after this he was given an opportunity of becoming education minister of himachal pradesh with 6 portfolios he had the chance to visit many countries in the world and got opportunities to deliver lectures on different topics of social educational and political concerns participated in international seminars alsowrote two reference books namely mahasu kshetra ki lok paramprayain and situational study of tribal areas of himachal pradesh now both the reference books are property of government of india