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Gulzarilal Nanda

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Gulzarilal Nanda
Prime Minister of India
Acting
In office
11 January 1966 – 24 January 1966
PresidentSarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Preceded byLal Bahadur Shastri
Succeeded byIndira Gandhi
In office
27 May 1964 – 9 June 1964
PresidentSarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Preceded byJawaharlal Nehru
Succeeded byLal Bahadur Shastri
Minister of Home Affairs
In office
29 August 1963 – 14 November 1966
Prime MinisterJawaharlal Nehru
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Indira Gandhi
Preceded byLal Bahadur Shastri
Succeeded byYashwantrao Chavan
Personal details
Born4 July 1898
Sialkot, Punjab, British India
(now in Punjab, Pakistan)
Died15 January 1998 (aged 99)
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Political partyIndian National Congress
Spouse(s)Lakshmi
Children2 sons and 1 daughter
Alma materAllahabad University
ReligionHinduism
Gulzarilal Nanda (In Hindi गुलजारीलाल नंदा In Punjabi ਗੁਲਜਾਰੀਲਾਲ ਨਂਦਾ, 4 July 1898 – 15 January 1998)[1] was an Indian politician and economist who specialized in labour issues. He was the Prime Minister of India for two short periods following the deaths of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964 and Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966. Both his terms ended after the ruling Indian National Congress's parliamentary party elected a new prime minister. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in 1997.

Early life[edit]

Nanda was born on 4 July 1898 in Sialkot in the Punjab Province of British India into a Punjabi Hindu family. (After the partition of British India into India and Pakistan in 1947, Sialkot became a part of the Punjab Province of Pakistan.) Nanda received his education in Lahore, Amritsar, Agra, and Allahabad.[citation needed]
Nanda worked as a research scholar on labour problems at Allahabad University (1920–1921), and became a Professor of Economics at National College in Bombay (Mumbai) in 1921.[citation needed] The same year, he joined the Indian Non-Cooperation Movement against the British Raj. In 1922, he became secretary of the Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association where he worked until 1946. He was imprisoned for Satyagraha in 1932, and again from 1942 to 1944.[citation needed]. He honored with "Proud Past Alumni" in the list of 42 members, from "Allahabad University Alumni Association", NCR, Ghaziabad (Greater Noida) Chapter 2007-2008 registered under society act 1860 with registration no. 407/2000.[2][3][4]
He married Lakshmi, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.[5]

Member of Bombay Legislative Assembly[edit]

In the British Raj, Nanda was elected to the Bombay Legislative Assembly in 1937, and served as parliamentary secretary (for Labor and Excise) to the Government of Bombay from 1937 to 1939. As Labour Minister of the Bombay Government during 1946–50, he successfully piloted the Labor Disputes Bill in the state assembly. He served as a Trustee of the Kasturba Memorial Trust. (Kasturba was the wife of Mahatma Gandhi.) He served as secretary of the Hindustan Mazdoor Sevak Sangh (Indian Labor Welfare Organization), and Chairman of the Bombay Housing Board. He was a member of the National Planning Committee. He was largely instrumental in organising the Indian National Trade Union Congress, and later became its president.
In 1947, Nanda went to Geneva, Switzerland as a government delegate to the International Labor Conference. He worked on The Freedom of Association Committee of the Conference, and visited Sweden, France, Switzerland, Belgium, and the UK to study labour and housing conditions in those countries.
In March 1950, Nanda joined the Indian Planning Commission as its vice-chairman. In September 1951, he was appointed Planning Minister in the Indian Government. He was also given charge of the portfolios of Irrigation and Power. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Bombay in the general elections of 1952, and was reappointed Minister for Planning, Irrigation, and Power. He led the Indian Delegation to the Plan Consultative Committee held in Singapore in 1955, and the International Labor Conference held in Geneva in 1959.
Nanda was elected to the Lok Sabha in the 1957 elections, and was appointed Union Minister for Labour, Employment and Planning, and later, as Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission. He visited the Federal Republic of Germany, Yugoslavia, and Austria in 1959.
Nanda was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in the 1962 elections from the Sabarkantha constituency in Gujarat. He initiated the Congress Forum for Socialist Action in 1962. He was Union Minister for Labour and Employment during 1962 – 1963, and Minister for Home Affairs during 1963 – 1966.

Interim Prime Minister[edit]

Nanda was the Prime Minister of India twice for thirteen days each: the first time after the death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964, and the second time after the death of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966.[6] Both his terms were uneventful, yet they were sensitive of period because of the potential danger to the country following Nehru's death soon after a war with China in 1962 and Shastri's death after a war with Pakistan in 1965.[7]

Gulzarilal Nanda: Profile in austerity

At 98 the two-time interim prime minister is the epitome of Gandhian ideals.

Uday Mahurkar
May 15, 1996 | UPDATED 14:10 IST
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Bungalow no. 49 in the Navrangpura area of Ahmedabad lies blanketed in silence. The hurly-burly of the election campaign has left it untouched although the neighbourhood bustles with pre-poll activity.
Not many know that in this nondescript house lives Gulzarilal Nanda, 98, who was twice the country's interim prime minister, authored the First Five Year Plan, and was a key member of Jawaharlal Nehru's trusted inner circle.

Nanda is spending the autumn of his life with daughter Pushpa Nayak, 75, and grandson, Tejas Nayak; he can barely speak and is usually confined to bed. He gets up only while having meals or when the evening shadows lengthen and he listens to bhajans (devotional songs).

Three quarters of a century ago, Nanda's staid life as a lawyer in Allahabad took a dramatic turn when on a visit to Bombay in 1921 he met Mahatma Gandhi. Asked to join the freedom struggle and organise textile labourers in Ahmedabad, Nanda readily agreed.
But Gandhi, on second thoughts, told him to get his family's approval first. The choice was not an easy one. Says Nanda: "I passed an entire night in mental turmoil. Ultimately, I decided to take the plunge without even informing my family."
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Nanda went to Ahmedabad, and together with Anusuya Sarabhai, of the famous Sarabhai family, formed the Majoor Mahajan, believed to be the country's oldest labour organisation. His political activities led to internment in various jails. And the memory of one such imprisonment is etched in Pushpaben's mind.

Just before he went to Dhulia Jail in 1931, Nanda promised the 10-year-old Pushpaben a wristwatch if she came first in class. Taking him at his word, says Pushpaben: "When I demanded my gift from him, Jamnalal Bajaj, who was his jailmate, jokingly came up with aghada (a water pitcher) instead of a ghadi (watch)."

Recalling his association with Nehru, Nanda says: "He used to treat me with respect even when he didn't agree with me." Appointed vice-chairman of the Planning Commission by Nehru, Nanda played a vital role in the drawing up of the First Five Year Plan and headed important ministries till 1971.

About the two occasions when her father was interim prime minister - after the death of Nehru and later after Lal Bahadur Shastri's demise - Pushpaben says: "On both, he took it as part of his duty. On the second occasion, there were some in the Cabinet who wanted him to continue as prime minister but he didn't allow himself to become part of a power game."
Even in those days, when public life was largely beyond criticism, Nanda's spartan lifestyle and unblemished reputation stood out. There is one particular incident that grandson Tejas cannot forget.
As a child, he once drew a sketch and went to show it to his grandfather. After praising him for his effort, Nanda admonished him for using the official stationery. "One can't even dream of this kind of honesty," says Tejas.

Such unflinching integrity invariably extracts its price. When Nanda was Union home minister in the early '60s, he set up a special cell to lodge complaints against corrupt officials and politicians. He came under pressure to wind up the cell but didn't yield. Subsequently, a riot in Delhi - which he later discovered was engineered - led him to resign.

Nanda left active politics in protest against the imposition of Emergency by Indira Gandhi in 1975. And he continues to live by the inflexible code of his own conduct. An advocate of austerity, Nanda's bank account has never exceeded a few thousand rupees.
"The source of corruption lies in our deviation from Gandhian principles," says Nanda. "Simple living will automatically prevent corruption. The less the need, the lesser the need for money."
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