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  The Hindu : National : Leaders mourn Chandra Shekhar’s death
Chandra Shekhar a veteran Parliamentarian, secularist and a socialist known for his conviction to the principles he believed in.
Chandra Shekhar in hospital on Saturday, said he was deeply moved by the courage with which the former Prime Minister fought his illness and soldiered on.
Chandra Shekhar not only led the nation during a turbulent period but also served as a beacon for the people and politicians across the political spectrum, pointing out their mistakes.
www.hindu.com /2007/07/09/stories/2007070955331400.htm   (961 words)

  
  CHANDRA SHEKHAR AZAD
Chandra Shekhar Azad's attitude in the court was defiant.
The parent contributor attended a secret meeting with Chandra Shekhar Azad and Sukhdev Raj in the Alfred Park, Allahabad, in February 1931, Azad was of the opinion that Hindustan Socialist Republican Army had moved far ahead and that no purpose would be served by asking individuals to take to armed action.
Chandra Shekhar Azad was born in abysmal penury and all sorts of superstition.
mama.indstate.edu /users/harsha/azad   (983 words)

  
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Despite the fact that Sonia appears to have failed in her bid to form a Congress-exclusive minority government, Chandra Shekhar is of the opinion that "she has got a definite game-plan and she has the guts to pursue it against all odds".
In choosing to waive aside protocol and go to her residence, Chandra Shekhar evidently had two motives --- to make a political gesture and also to be free to speak his mind.
Chandra Shekhar is also said to be nursing hopes of becoming Prime Minister again, but his bigger concern seems to be to avoid getting sidelined in the present poliitcal scenario.
www.angelfire.com /in/jalnews/244993.txt   (834 words)

  
 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Chandra had two brothers and five sisters, and he was the oldest boy.
Chandra was a very good student and started college when he was only 15 years old.
After college Chandra had the chance to go to Cambridge England for advanced studies, but he hesitated because his mother was ill. Indian tradition, his friends, and relatives all said he should stay home and care for his mother.
www.vigyanprasar.com /scientists/chandra/chandra.htm   (872 words)

  
 Former PM Chandra Shekhar dies of cancer
Shekhar died at 0845 hours IST, said a doctor of the Apollo Hospital where the former PM was admitted three months ago.
Shekhar was born on July 1, 1927 in a farmer's family in Ibrahimpatti in Ballia.
Shekhar became the president of the Janata Party, which was formed in 1977 and formed the first non-Congress government at the Centre.
www.ibnlive.com /news/former-pm-chandra-shekhar-dies-of-cancer/44311-3.html   (479 words)

  
 India - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Chandra Shekhar, a long-time Singh opponent, emerged as the leader of a rebel faction.
A new minority government was formed by Chandra Shekhar, who led a tiny Janata Dal socialist faction comprising 56 deputies and was assured of outside support by the Congress Party of Rajiv Gandhi.
At the end of January 1991 Shekhar dismissed the opposition-led government of the large southern state of Tamil Nadu, citing the presence of Tamil Tiger rebels from northern Sri Lanka.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /India   (8423 words)

  
 GN Online: Politicians woo caste leaders in UP
An upper caste Rajput, Chandra Shekhar has held two rounds of meeting with the former UP chief minister Kalyan Singh, who heads the regional Rashtriya Kranti Party (RKP) ever since he was expelled from the parent BJP early last year.
Sources close to Chandra Shekhar claim that the combination of Rajput-Lodh-Kurmi is quite potent and would play a crucial role in the government formation exercise "since the State is bound to once again elect a hung assembly".
Chandra Shekhar's predecessor as the Indian premier Vishwanath Pratap Singh has already announced his return to active politics and has declared that he would campaign for the newly launched People's Front.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=24105   (787 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Version   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The first setback for Chandra Shekhar came in July 2001, when the Supreme Court ruled in an interim order that the Trust must return to the government the 500 acres the Trust was given for ‘‘greening’’; this would be handed over to the panchayat.
Moreover, Chandra Shekhar’s lawyer S K Verma says it is a misconception that the Trust ‘‘acquired’’ 500 acres of forest land.
Besides Chandra Shekhar’s own cottage, two new cottages and a guest house complex built in 1996, the compound boasts a picturesque lake, complete with paddle boats and ducks and a gazebo.
www.indianexpress.com /print.php?content_id=1662   (1235 words)

  
 Indo-Asian News Service -> India-Politics/Health-Chandra shekhar -> Chandra Shekhar may be taken to US for treatment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) Former prime minister Chandra Shekhar, who has been in poor health for a long time, may be headed for the US for further treatment.
Chandra Shekhar was discharged June 9 from the Apollo Hospital where he was admitted for a week.
A Lok Sabha MP from Ballia in Uttar Pradesh, Chandra Shekhar was the eighth prime minister of India, for a short tenure of seven months.
www.eians.com /stories/2005/06/30/30hod.shtml   (179 words)

  
 Rediff On The NeT: Janardan Thakur thinks Chandra Shekhar is a wily fox
Chandra Shekhar's curious dalliance with the party's Jan Sangh constituent perhaps stemmed from a deeper design, for it was from this component of the Janata Party that Morarji had drawn his main strength.
Chandra Shekhar had suddenly soared in the late sixties with his Young Turk rhetoric in the service of Indira Gandhi, who was then battling against the Syndicate bosses.
Later, Chandra Shekhar had turned a dissident against the empress-in-making, which brought him close to JP and landed him, rather pointlessly, in jail.
www.rediff.com /news/apr/18cong2.htm   (1177 words)

  
 Chandra Shekhar Azad - Freedom Fighter
Chandra Shekhar was born on 23 July 1906 to Pandit Sita Ram Tiwari and Jagrani Devi.
Young Chandra Shekhar was fascinated by and drawn to the great national upsurge of the non-violent, non-cooperation movement of 1920-21 under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi.
When arrested and produced before the magistrate, he gave his name as 'Azad', his father's name as 'Swatantra' and his residence as 'prison'.
www.gloriousindia.com /biographies/chandra_shekhar_azad.html   (227 words)

  
 Shekhar’s clarion call to voters
SUNAM — Mr Chandra Shekhar, a former Prime Minister and president of the Samajwadi Janata Party, today called on people to light a lamp in the dark by voting for Prem Singh Chandumajra, candidate of the Sanjha Morcha in the Sunam Assembly byelections on September 29.
Mr Chandra Shekhar also indirectly asked Mr Simranjit Singh Mann, president of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar), to extend his party’s support to Mr Chandumajra as there was need for unity among all those political parties which opposed the Congress and the BJP-SAD alliance.
Mr Chandra Shekhar said it was a matter of concern that the ruling party (BJP) and the opposition party (Congress) now shared identical views and opinions.
www.punjabilok.com /news_files/oct/shekh_clarion.htm   (731 words)

  
 Chandra Shekhar - Prime Minister of India
Chandra Shekhar Singh was born on July 1, 1927 in village Ibrahimpatti in District Ballia, Uttar Pradesh.
Shri Chandra Sekhar was among the few individuals in the then ruling party who was imprisoned during the Emergency.
Shri Chandra Shekhar undertook a marathon walk (Padayatra) through the country from Kanyakumari to Rajghat (Samadhi of Mahatma Gandhi) in New Delhi covering a distance of nearly 4260 kms from January 6, 1983 to June 25, 1983.
www.gloriousindia.com /biographies/chandra_shekhar.html   (475 words)

  
 The Hindu : Chandra Shekhar slams Govt. for UTI muddle
Chandra Shekhar said an impression was gaining ground that a ``particular industrial house had a stranglehold over the Government and could get decisions taken in its favor and even ensure the transfer of important functionaries of the Finance Ministry without the Finance Minister's knowledge.''
Chandra Shekhar said that he had written to the Prime Minister a month back but was yet to receive an acknowledgement leave alone a reply.
Chandra Shekhar said it was necessary that a CBI probe was ordered against the house, as ``the nation should not feel that Parliament and the entire Government machinery was under the control of this industrial house''.
www.hinduonnet.com /2001/08/22/stories/0222000p.htm   (419 words)

  
 Prime Minister's Office   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Shri Chandra Shekhar was born on July 1, 1927, in a farmer’s family in village Ibrahimpatti in District Ballia, Uttar Pradesh.
Shri Chandra Shekhar was attracted to politics from his student days and was known as a fire-brand idealist with revolutionary fervour.
Shri Chandra Shekhar undertook a marathon walk (Padayatra) through the country from Kanyakumari in the deep South to Rajghat (Samadhi of Mahatma Gandhi) in New Delhi covering a distance of nearly 4260 kms from January 6, 1983 to June 25, 1983.
pmindia.nic.in /pm_shekhar.htm   (592 words)

  
 Chandra Shekhar came close to solving Ayodhya issue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Shekhar for his `plain-speaking and tough decisions and narrated the moves he had initiated for solving the problem.
Shekhar was having with the members of the Babri Masjid Action Committee (BMAC).
Shekhar had made it clear that he was not for the demolition of the mosque and that he was against the agitation that the BMAC had planned.
www.hvk.org /articles/0902/164.html   (254 words)

  
 Shiv Ram Hari Rajguru - Freedom Fighter
He was a close associate of Chandra Shekhar Azad, Sardar Bhagat Singh and Jatin Das and his field of activity was U.P and Punjab, with Kanpur, Agra and Lahore as his headquarters.
The revolutionaries planned to avenge Lalaji’s death by killing the Police Superintendent, Scott and the Deputy Superitendent of Police, Saunders who were responsible for the lathi charge leading to the death of Lalaji.
Chandra Shekhar Azad, Shiv Ram Rajguru, Bhagat Singh and Jai Gopal were deputed for the work.
www.gloriousindia.com /biographies/shiv_ram_hari_rajguru.html   (686 words)

  
 Party thoughts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Having been both an important player in and an observer of national politics, Chandra Shekhar is better equipped than almost anyone else today to say what he did.
Chandra Shekhar even argued that it would be far better for the prime minister to allow the sangh parivar to go about its project of destroying the nation without hindrance, rather than provide a moral imprimatur for its divisive brand of politics.
In many ways, Chandra Shekhar was only expressing what a great many Indians have increasingly come to believe in recent times.
www.indianexpress.com /archive_full_story.php?content_id=1090   (506 words)

  
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Chandra Shekhar's call, and the political events that preceded and followed it, signified the first real test of Sonia Gandhi's leadership of the party.
Starting with the initial reaction to Chandra Shekhar's call by the Congress(I) Working Committee (CWC) a day after it was made, to Sonia Gandhi's own pronouncements later, the reactions betrayed a lack of readiness to pursue a proactive policy.
By the time Chandra Shekhar's call came, the defeat had snowballed into a major internal problem in the Congress(I), with many senior leaders, including Arjun Singh, S.B. Chavan and Madhavrao Scindia, gunning for Sharad Pawar, the leader of the party in the Lok Sabha, and his supporters.
www.flonnet.com /fl1515/15150040.htm   (2205 words)

  
 Chandra Shekhar faces difficulties in Ballia - Sify.com
This time, Chandra Shekhar is addressing dozens of public rallies and is trying to convince the people that a vote for him translates into a vote for a national stalwart whose presence in the 14th Lok Sabha is essential.
Chandra Shekhar is known for his unimpeachable reputation in the country but surprisingly, he does not enjoy the same regard in his own district or among the electorate.
On the other hand, BJP candidate Parmatmanand Tiwari rejects Chandra Shekhar's explanation, saying the condition of hospitals, school and roads are worse in Ballia than anywhere else in the country.
sify.com /news/fullstory.php?id=13461111   (613 words)

  
 Interview: Chandra Sekhar
THERE IS NO PROBLEM OF Chandra Shekhar, who had the distinction of being the most unusual Prime Minister of India so far, was kind enough to give Editor-in-Chief Sunil Dang and Think Tank Director Yogendra Bali, an opportunity for a free-and-frank interface on the future of India.
Chandra Shekhar, who never hankered for any office, had the distinction of being the leader of the young Turks and the economic radical who dared defy the mighty Indira Gandhi, went to jail during the Emergency, and became the President of the Janata Party which installed the Morarji Desai Government at the Centre.
Chandra Shekhar then lambasted the political leaders taking the Ayodhya issue as an example.
www.dayafterindia.com /august2/cs.html   (934 words)

  
 The Hindu : Chandra Shekhar to undertake 'car yatra'
Chandra Shekhar, will undertake a fortnight-long `car yatra' from Puri to Porbandar starting June 5 to make the masses aware of the ``anti-people'' policies being pursued by the present government at the Centre.
Chandra Shekhar will address a series of public meetings during the course of his yatra.
Chandra Shekhar, other prominent leaders who were likely to address the Porbandar meeting include Mr.
www.hinduonnet.com /2001/06/03/stories/14032191.htm   (200 words)

  
 Express Focus -- INTERVIEW -- by Indian Express   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
His presidency witnessed the beginning of coalition politics at the Centre and his term spanned four Prime Ministers —; Rajiv Gandhi, V P Singh, Chandra Shekhar and P V Narasimha Rao.
I asked Rajiv, ‘Will you at least support him for one year?’ I had invited Chandra Shekhar to allow the tempers in the country triggered off by Mandal and Mandir to cool down for elections to be held.
Chandra Shekhar had told me(earlier that day) that if he found that the Congress did not participate in the debate (on the Motion of Thanks to the Presidential address), he would tell the Speaker that he was resigning.
www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20010101/focus1.htm   (1413 words)

  
 Indiatime: The Most 'Nobel' Teacher of Them All   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Chandra's main claim to fame was his discovery of the upper limit to the mass of a 'white dwarf' - the final stage in the evolution of a star.
In 1983, Dr. Chandra became the second Indian to be awarded the Nobel prize in physics for his studies on the evolution of stars.
Chandra Sekhar named Actor happened to stay in the same hotel in which the nobel laureate Chandra Shekhar was putting up.
www.indiatime.com /archives/2005/01/the_most_nobel.html   (537 words)

  
 About B. P. Koirala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
New Delhi, March 30: "B.P. Koirala was not only a leader of Modern Renaissance," said former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar at the release of two of Koirala's works held at the India International Centre here on Friday.
Chandra Shekhar released the English version of Atmabritanta and the Hindi translation of Jail Journal, two books written by B.P. Koirala, former Prime Minister of Nepal.
"He was a man who knew his goals," Mr Chandra Shekhar said, emphasising that the people of Nepal and India came from the same stock and were therefore similar.
www.nepalicongress.org.np /contents/general/about_bp/nav.php?show=books   (260 words)

  
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Vajpayee was speaking after releasing a book by the former Prime Minister, Chandra Shekhar, titled "The Quest, The Hurdles — A Socialist Testament".
Ltd., the first volume brings together the editorials by Chandra Shekhar in the weekly journal Young Indian between 1971 and 2001.
Chandra Shekhar "a rebel at heart" who propagated the ideals of socialism, Mr.
www.bjp.org /Newspaper/sep_1104.htm   (292 words)

  
 Jain panel report just trash, says Shekhar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
CHENNAI, July 31: Describing the Jain Commission report as `trash', former prime minister and Samajwadi Janata Party president Chandra Shekhar said on Thursday that he was not `overwhelmed' by Justice M C Jain's findings reportedly indicting him.
Speaking to mediapersons in Chennai, Chandra Shekhar let loose a tirade against Justice Jain for what he called the latter's ``indulgence in gossip and rumour while discharging his judicial duty''.
Chandra Shekhar further said he had informed the Commission probing the conspiracy angle in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case that if there were any doubts about anyone including himself, there were agencies to look into it.
www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19980801/21350274.html   (365 words)

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