Chaudhary Charan Singh
(Hindi: चौधरी चरण सिंह Caudharī Caraṇ Siṅh; 23 December 1902 – 29 May
1987) was the seventh Prime Minister of the Republic of India, serving from 28
July 1979 until 14 January 1980. Born into a Jaat family of Tevatia clan in
1902[1][2], Charan Singh entered politics as part of the Independence Movement.
After independence he became particularly notable in the 1950s for opposing and
winning a battle against Nehru's socialistic and collectivist land use policies,
for the sake of the Indian Farmer. Popular especially among his native Jat
community, his political base was Western Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, where that
community was dominant. The leader of the Bharatiya Lok Dal, a major
constituent of the Janata coalition, he was disappointed in his ambition to
become Prime Minister in 1977 by Jayaprakash Narayan's choice of Morarji Desai.
He settled at the time for the largely honorary post of Deputy Prime Minister
of India. However, the internal stresses of the coalition's government caused
him to leave the government with the former Lok Dal, after being promised by
Mrs. Gandhi the support of the Congress Party on the floor of the House in any
efforts to form a government. He was sworn in as Prime Minister with the support
of just 64 MPs. During his term as Prime Minister the Lok Sabha never met. The
day before the Lok Sabha was due to meet for the first time the Indian National
Congress withdrew their support from his Bharatiya Lok Dal Government.
Choudhary Charan Singh resigned and fresh elections were held six months later.
He continued to lead the Lok Dal in opposition till his death in 1987, when he
was succeeded as party president by his son Ajit Singh. His association with
the causes dear to farming communities in the North caused his memorial in New
Delhi to be named Kisan Ghat. (In Hindi, Kisan is the word for farmer.) The
university of Meerut city in Uttar Pradesh, India, is named after him
(Chaudhary Charan Singh University).
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