September 15, 2026

Which Indian politician, prime minister briefly in 1990-91, went on a nationwide padayatra march in 1983 from Kanyakumari to New Delhi, and set up a Bharat Yatra Trust in Bhondsi village near Gurgaon in Haryana focused on rural development?

A B. S. Chandrasekhar
B Sonia Gandhi
C Chandra Shekhar
D Rajiv Gandhi

Chandra Shekhar (1927-2007) led one of the shortest-serving Indian governments, from November 1990 to June 1991, propped up by Congress support until Rajiv Gandhi withdrew it. He is remembered as a Young Turk socialist and a lifelong opponent of what he saw as Congress dynastic politics.

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