[New Delhi]The Vice President Of India Mohd. Hamid Ansari Paid Floral tributes to the former Prime Minister, Late Ch. Charan Singh,on his 28th death anniversary, at Kisan Ghat, in Delhi
Prominent Jat Leader Ch Charan Singh was the Fifth Prime Minister of the Republic of India, He Served from 28 July 1979 until 14 January 1980.
He was born in a Jat family in 1902 in village Noorpur of Hapur District in Uttar Pradesh And Entered politics as part of the Independence Movement. After independence, he became particularly notable in the 1950s for opposing and winning a battle against Jawaharlal Nehru’s socialistic and collectivist land use policies, for the sake of the Indian Farmer, which endeared him to the agrarian communities throughout the nation, particularly in his native Uttar Pradesh.
Charan Singh’s ancestor was the prominent leader of the Indian Rebellion of 1857,
Raja Nahar Singh of Ballabhgarh (in present day Haryana). Maharaja Nahar Singh was sent to the gallows in Chandni Chowk, Delhi. In order to escape the oppression from the British Government following their defeat, the Maharaja’s followers, including Charan Singh’s grandfather moved eastward to district Bulandshaher in Uttar Pradesh.