MORARJI DESAI
The Fourth Prime
Minister of India
The First Premier of a non-Congress Government of
India
118th Birth Anniversary
About:
Name:
Morarji Desai
Date & Place of Birth:
February 29, 1896 – Bhadeli, Valsad, Gujarat, India.
Date & Place of Death:
April 10, 1995 – New Delhi, India.
Activity / Profession / Trait / Objective:
Activist, Civil Servant, Politician
Nationality:
Indian
Introduction:
He was a notable Indian independence activist and
politician, who became the fourth Prime Minister of India from 1977 to
1979. He was also the first Prime Minister to head the India's first
non-Congress Government.
History & Achievements
He earned considerable international fame for his peace
activism and made notable efforts to initiate peace between two-rival South
Asian states, Pakistan and India.
After India's first nuclear explosion in 1974, Smiling
Buddha, Desai helped restore friendly relations with China and Pakistan, and
vowed to avoid armed conflict.
He the only Indian national to be conferred with Pakistan's
highest civilian award, Nishan-e-Pakistan, which was honoured to him by
President Ghulam Ishaq Khan in 1990 in a colourful ceremony.
After graduating from Wilson College, Mumbai, he joined the
civil service in Gujarat.
Later, he left the service of the British in 1924 and
joined the civil disobedience movement against British rule in India in 1930.
Soon he became an important leader of the Indian National
Congress in Gujarat.
Morarji Desai became the prime minister after the landslide
victory of the Janata coalition in 1977.
His government undid many amendments made to the
constitution during emergency and made it difficult for any future government to
impose national emergency.
In 1979, Raj Narain and Charan Singh pulled out of the
Janata Party, forcing Desai to resign from office and retire from politics at
the age of 83.
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