5th Prime Minister of India
Charan Singh
- In office
- 28 July 1979 – 14 Jan. 1980
- Party
- Janata Party (Secular)
- Born in
- Noorpur, Uttar Pradesh
- Lived
- 1902–1987
- Days in office
- 170
- In order
- 1979–1980: after Morarji Desai, before Indira Gandhi
Key achievements & events
- Lifelong champion of farmers and rural India
- Earlier drove land reform and the abolition of the zamindari system in Uttar Pradesh
- Served about five and a half months as prime minister after the Janata Party split
Remember: The only prime minister who never faced Parliament while in office. His birthday, 23 December, is National Farmers' Day.