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Chaudhary Charan Singh

Chaudhary Charan Singh
चौधरी चरण सिंह
Charan Singh
Charan Singh in 1978
5th Prime Minister of India
In office
28 July 1979 – 14 January 1980
President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Deputy Yashwantrao Chavan
Preceded by Morarji Desai
Succeeded by Indira Gandhi
Minister of Finance
In office
24 January 1979 – 28 July 1979
Prime Minister Morarji Desai
Preceded by Haribhai Patel
Succeeded by Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna
3rd Deputy Prime Minister of India
In office
24 March 1977 – 28 July 1979
Serving with Jagjivan Ram
Prime Minister Morarji Desai
Preceded by Morarji Desai
Succeeded by Yashwantrao Chavan
Minister of Home Affairs
In office
24 March 1977 – 1 July 1978
Prime Minister Morarji Desai
Preceded by Kasu Brahmananda Reddy
Succeeded by Morarji Desai
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
In office
3 April 1967 – 25 February 1968
Governor Biswanath Das
Bezawada Gopala Reddy
Preceded by Chandra Bhanu Gupta
Succeeded by President's rule
In office
18 February 1970 – 1 October 1970
Governor Bezawada Gopala Reddy
Preceded by Chandra Bhanu Gupta
Succeeded by President's rule
Personal details
Born

Chaudhary Charan Singh
(1902-12-23)23 December 1902
Noorpur, United Provinces, British India

(now in Uttar Pradesh, India)
Died 29 May 1987(1987-05-29) (aged 84)
New Delhi, India
Political party Janata Party (Secular) (1979–1987)
Spouse(s) Gayatri Devi (died in 2002)
Children Satya Wati, Ved Wati, Gyan Wati, Saroj Verma, Ajit Singh, Sharda Singh
Alma mater Agra University
Religion Hinduism

Chaudhary Charan Singh
(1902-12-23)23 December 1902
Noorpur, United Provinces, British India

Chaudhary Charan Singh (23 December 1902 – 29 May 1987) was the Prime Minister of the Republic of India, serving from 28 July 1979 until 14 January 1980. Historians and people alike frequently refer to him as the 'champion of India's peasants.'

Charan Singh was born in a Jat family in 1902 in village Bhadola of Ghaziabad District in Uttar Pradesh Charan Singh entered politics as part of the Independence Movement motivated by Mohandas Gandhi. He was active from 1931 in the Ghaziabad District Arya Samaj as well as the Meerut District Indian National Congress for which he was jailed twice by the British. Before independence, as a member of Legislative Assembly of the United Provinces elected in 1937, he took a deep interest in the laws that were detrimental to the village economy and he slowly built his ideological and practical stand against the exploitation of tillers of the land by landlords.

Between 1952 and 1967, he was one of "three principal leaders in Congress state politics." He became particularly notable in Uttar Pradesh from the 1950s for drafting and ensuring the passage of what were then the most revolutionary land reform laws in any state in India under the tutelage of the then Chief Minister Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant; first as Parliamentary Secretary and then as Revenue Minister responsible for Land Reforms. He became visible on the national stage from 1959 when he publicly opposed the unquestioned leader and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's socialistic and collectivist land policies in the Nagpur Congress Session. Though his position in the faction-ridden UP Congress was weakened, this was a point when the middle peasant communities across castes in North India began looking up to him as their spokesperson and later as their unquestioned leader. Singh stood for tight government spending, enforced consequences for corrupt officers, and advocated a "firm hand in dealing with the demands of government employees for increased wages and dearness allowances." It is also worth noting that within the factional UP Congress, his ability to articulate his clear policies and values made him stand out from his colleagues.


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