Chandra Shekhar

Chandra Shekhar

▪ prime minister of India
born July 1, 1927, Ibrahimpatti, India
died July 8, 2007, New Delhi
 politician and legislator, who served as prime minister of India from November 1990 to June 1991.

      Shekhar was a leading member of the Socialist Party before he joined the ruling Congress Party in 1964. He was a member of India's upper legislative chamber, the Rajya Sabha, from 1962 to 1967, and he held a seat in the lower chamber, the Lok Sabha, in 1977–79, 1980–84, and from 1989 until he became prime minister. Shekhar split with the leader of the Congress Party, Indira Gandhi (Gandhi, Indira), in 1975 and spent time in prison during the national emergency she subsequently declared.

      In 1977 Shekhar became president of the Janata Party, which headed a coalition government under Prime Minister Morarji Desai (Desai, Morarji) from 1977 to 1979. In 1988 Shekhar's Janata Party merged with several other opposition parties to form the Janata Dal Party under the leadership of V.P. Singh (Singh, V.P.), who subsequently became prime minister. After leading an internal rebellion against Singh, Shekhar broke with the Janata Dal Party on Nov. 5, 1990, and quickly formed the Janata Dal–Socialist faction. With the support of Rajiv Gandhi (Gandhi, Rajiv)'s Congress (I) Party, he replaced Singh as India's prime minister on Nov. 10, 1990, as head of a weak minority government. He resigned on March 6, 1991, after the Congress (I) Party withdrew its support, but he remained in office as a caretaker until national legislative elections could be held in May and June; he was eventually replaced by P.V. Narasimha Rao (Rao, P.V. Narasimha). Shekhar continued to be active in politics, and in 2004 he was elected to his eighth term in the Lok Sabha.

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