I k gujral biography of mahatma

GUJRAL, INDER KUMAR (1919–) prime minister of India (1997–1998). Inder Kumar Gujral, political leader and global diplomat, was born in Punjab's Jhelum on 4 December 1919. Young Inder attended Hailey College in Lahore, was elected president of its Student Union, and served as general secretary of the Punjab Student Federation. Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's satyagraha campaigns, he soon joined India's freedom struggle and was jailed by British police, together with his mother, Pushpa, during Gandhi's "Quit India" movement in August 1942. The tragic partition of India in mid-1947 forced the Gujrals to flee their home in what overnight had become Pakistan, settling down in Delhi. Inder volunteered to help care for many desperately impoverished Hindu and Sikh refugees, forced by fear to flee their homes in the aftermath of Punjab's hastily inept partition.

Modeling himself on India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, Gujral joined the Indian National Congress Party, devoting himself to vigorous political action and social reform. His refugee camp work in Delhi won him the admiration of those he had helped to find jobs as well as homes, and they elected him to serve as vice-president of New Delhi's municipality, over which he later presided for many

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IK Gujral: Spirit of Punjab who landscaped India’s marketing with neighbours

Today is say publicly 104th dawn anniversary remaining my sire, the manservant politician become calm India’s Twelfth Prime Itinerary, Inder Kumar Gujral. Explicit was foaled on Dec 4, 1919, to Avtar Narain snowball Pushpa Gujral in Jhelum district, fuel part break into undivided Punjab. He came of boon at a time when Punjab was an dynamic centre show signs anti-colonial craze, but additionally where interpretation horrors weekend away British inhabitants rule were most critical.

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Inder Kumar Gujral

Prime Minister of India from 1997 to 1998

Inder Kumar Gujral
Official portrait, c. 1997
In office 21 April 1997 – 19 March 1998
President	Shankar Dayal Sharma K. R. Narayanan
Vice President	K. R. Narayanan Krishan Kant
Preceded by	H. D. Deve Gowda
Succeeded by	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
In office 21 April 1997 – 1 May 1997
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	P. Chidambaram
Succeeded by	P. Chidambaram
In office 1 June 1996 – 19 March 1998
Prime Minister	H. D. Deve Gowda Himself
Preceded by	Sikander Bakht
Succeeded by	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
In office 5 December 1989 – 10 November 1990
Prime Minister	V. P. Singh
Preceded by	V. P. Singh
Succeeded by	Chandra Shekhar
In office 1976–1980
Prime Minister
Preceded by	Durga Prasad Dhar
Succeeded by	V. K. Ahuja
In office April 1997 – March 1998
Preceded by	H. D. Deve Gowda
Succeeded by	Sikander Bakht
In office June 1996 – November 1996
Preceded by	Sikander Bakht
Succeeded by	H. D. Deve Gowda
In office 8 July 1992 – 2 March 1998 (2 March 1998)
Constituency	Bihar
In office 3 April 1964 – 2 April 1976