Chaudhary Charan Singh served as the 5th Prime Minister of India between 28 July 1979 and 14 January 1980. He was born on 23 December 1902 in the village Noorpur, Meerut district, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. His ancestor was a prominent leader of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, Raja Nahar Singh.
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Chaudhary Charan Singh served as the 5th Prime Minister of India between 28 July 1979 and 14 January 1980. He was born on 23 December 1902 in the village Noorpur, Meerut district, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. 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. He 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. His ancestor was a prominent leader of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, Raja Nahar Singh of Ballabhgarh who was sent to the gallows in Chandni Chowk, Delhi. In 1938 he introduced an Agricultural Produce Market Bill in the Assembly which was published in the Hindustan Times of Delhi dated 31 March 1938. He followed Mahatma Gandhi in non-violent struggle for independence from the British Government and was imprisoned several times.
In 1940 he became the first state to do so in Punjab, being the most of the most populous states in India, being first to doso in 1940. He died in 1987 and was succeeded by his son Ravi Nath Singh, who served as Prime Minister until his death in 1991. He is remembered as the ‘champion of India’s peasants’ and ‘one of the greatest politicians of the 20th century’ and the ‘father of the modern Indian democracy’ He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Unitedprovinces 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. He started practice as a civil lawyer at the age of 34. In 1928 he was elected to the constituency of Chhaprara, Uttar Pradesh.
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