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== Career in Politics == Born in a [[Jat]] family in 1902<ref>[http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=932 The Churchill Centre, Making headway with the critics, 2002]</ref><ref>[http://ia.rediff.com/election/2003/nov/27akd.htm The anti-reservation man, November 27, 2003]</ref>, Charan Singh entered politics as part of the Independence Movement. After independence he became particularly notable in the 1950s for opposing and winning a battle against Nehru's socialistic and collectivist land use policies, for the sake of the Indian farmer. He was very popular among all the rural and farming communities, his political base was Western [[Uttar Pradesh]] and [[Haryana]]. In 1929 he joined the Indian National Congress. He was jailed several times in the struggle for Indian independence. He served in the United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh) state assembly from 1937 on. In February 1937 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh (United Provinces) at the age of 34. In 1938 he introduced an Agricultural Produce Market Bill in the Assembly which was published in the issues of The Hindustan Times of Delhi dated 31 March 1938. The Bill was intended to safeguard the interests of the farmers against the rapacity of the traders. The Bill was adopted by most of the States in India, [[Punjab]] being the first state to do so in 1940. Thus His political career began through the Congress ranks, supporting tenant rights. Working against the vein of early Congress policy and fighting formidable landlord influence, he mobilised support for peasant ownership of land, implemented reforms, and prevented tax increases on farmers. He worked to make farmers into an aggressive political force. Charan Singh followed Mahatma Gandhi in non-violent struggle for independence from the British Government, and was imprisoned several times. In 1930 he was sent to jail for 6 months by the British for contravention of Salt laws. He was jailed again for one year in November 1940 for individual Satyagraha Movement. In August 1942 he was jailed again by the British under DIR and released in November 1943. Along with Mahatma Gandhi he was also influenced by [[Swami Dayanand]], Kabir and [[Sardar Patel]]. Prof. Paul R. Brass writes that "Charan Singh was a phenomenon who arrived on the national stage in peasant costume and demeanor, but with the intelligence of an intellectual and a scholar. Those American and European Scholars who did meet him in the 1960s when he was a minister in the U P government - or out of the power temporarily - were immediately impressed by his intelligence, intellect, knowledge and demeanor."<ref>An Indian Political Life Ch. Charan Singh (Former Prime Minister of India) and Congress Politics,1967 to 1987 by Prof.Paul R Brass. Paul R Brass is a Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.</ref> ===[[Election History of Chaudhary Charan Singh]] ===
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