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Chaudhary Charan Singh (23 December 1902 – 29 May 1987) was an Indian politician, peasant leader and freedom fighter who briefly served as as the fifth prime minister of India from July 1979 to August 1979.
Charan Singh was elected president of Lok Dal and Raj Narain, its working president. [ 6 ] In August 1982, major split occurred in Lok Dal, with one faction of Charan Singh and another consisted of Karpoori Thakur , Madhu Limaye , Biju Patnaik , Devi Lal , George Fernandes , Kumbha Ram Arya . [ 7 ]
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This seat is highly Jat dominated and considered a bastion for the Charan Singh family. He was elected to this seat for three terms from 1977 to 1989 and then this seat was held by his son Ajit Singh, between 1989 and 2014 for seven terms. [2] [3] The incumbent MP for Baghpat is Rajkumar Sangwan from Rashtriya Lok Dal.
Home Minister Charan Singh argued that the ruling party had been resoundingly rejected by voters and would need to win a new mandate from the people of the states. The Congress (R) was defeated in all the states, and the Janata party took power in seven – Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh.
[8] [9] Within months of joining politics, he removed Mulayam Singh Yadav from the position of Lok Dal legislature party leader in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. [8] Ajit Singh was first elected to Rajya Sabha (the upper house of Indian Parliament) in 1986 after his father and former prime minister Charan Singh became ill. He was the ...
Chaudhary Charan Singh was sworn in as Prime Minister on 28 July 1979, with outside support by Indira Congress and Yashwantrao Chavan of Congress (Socialist) faction as his Deputy PM. Just before Singh was to prove his majority in Lok Sabha, Indira Gandhi withdrew support to his government, and he resigned on 20 August 1979, after just 23 days ...
Karan Singh (born 1931) MP for Udhampur: 28 July 1979 14 January 1980 170 days Indian National Congress (Urs) Charan Singh: Charan Singh: 12 B. Shankaranand (1925–2009) MP for Chikkodi: 14 January 1980 17 October 1980 277 days Indian National Congress (I) Indira IV: Indira Gandhi: 13 Shankarrao Chavan (1920–2004) MP for Nanded: 17 October ...