When farmers handed over a bag worth Rs 77 lakh to Chaudhary Saheb on his birthday.
Special on the birth anniversary of Chaudhary Charan Singh
Chaudhary Saheb had taught the farmers to get their rights.
Jagran Correspondent, Baghpat: Bharat Ratna former Prime Minister Late. Ch. Today is the birth anniversary of Charan Singh. He was the first leader of the country to whom farmers created history by handing over a bag worth Rs 77 lakh to celebrate his 77th birthday. This was the state of madness of the farmers, because Chaudhary Saheb not only gave them freedom from the landlords but also gave them confidence to raise their voice against injustice.
Chaudhary Charan Singh, who rose from thatched roof to the Prime Minister's chair, was against casteism. He had brought a proposal in the Congress Legislative Party meeting in 1939 that any Hindu candidate who enters an educational institution or public service should not be asked about caste. Can only find out whether they belong to Scheduled Caste or not. On May 22, 1954, he wrote a letter to the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru that by amending the Constitution, those young men and women who perform inter-caste marriages should be selected for gazetted posts. On becoming Chief Minister in 1967, Ch. Charan Singh issued a government order that government grants to educational institutions running in the name of a particular caste will be stopped. The effect of this was that the educational institutions run in the name of castes were named after great men. 'Dhara Putra Ch. According to the book 'Charan Singh and his legacy', Chaudhary Saheb did not take donations from any capitalist for running the party and elections.
On May 17, 1939, Choudhary Saheb passed the Debt Retirement Bill in the United Province Legislative Assembly, abolished the British era laws of waiving off farmers' loans, abolishing Zamindari, implementing the Land Reforms Act, liberating them from the Patwari Raj, passing the Consolidation Act, soil testing to increase crop yield, keeping agriculture out of income tax, and imposing fines on walking on canal tracks. In 1961, he did things like patrolling with wireless police, getting land holding ledger, removing the ban on inter-state movement of agricultural produce.
Such was the madness of the farmers
RLD leader Ombir Dhaka says that the exclusion of Chaudhary Saheb from the cabinet of the then Prime Minister Morarji Desai's government created anger among the farmers. A few days later, on 23 December 1978, it was Chaudhary Saheb's 77th birthday. Then farmers from all over the country had donated and handed over bags worth Rs 77 lakh in the rally held in Delhi on his birthday. The crowd that gathered at the rally shocked the country. Chaudhary Saheb formed Kisan Trust with the money received on his birthday. This trust works for the farmers.
Such was Chaudhary Saheb's journey.
Prime Minister Late. Ch. Charan Singh was born on 23 December 1902 in Noorpur village near Babugarh Cantonment of Hapur. Father Chaudhary Mir Singh was an ordinary farmer and mother Netra Kaur was a devout woman. When he was a child, he came to Bhupgarhi village of Janikhurd with his father. After completing primary education from Janikhurd's school and a law degree from Meerut College in 1926, he started practicing law in Ghaziabad. After this, he made Baghpat his workplace and reached the post of Prime Minister on 28 July 1978.