Ch. Charan Singh was born on 23 December 1902 to Meer Singh and Netra Kaur at Noorpur village, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. After completing graduation in science and masters in arts from Agra he did his LLB and started practicing as a civil lawyer at Ghaziabad. Charan Singh joined the Indian National Congress in 1929 and took active part in the Freedom Movement. He remained in the party till 1967. His dream to be the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh was realised when he was elected leader of the Sanyukta Vidhayak Dal (SVD) and became the Chief Minister of coalition Government in 1967-68, which lasted less than a year. He became the Chief Minister of another coalition government of Uttar Pradesh in 1970, once again for a brief spell of 6 months. He was elected to the 6th Lok Sabha in 1977 and was the Home Minister in Morarji’s cabinet. In 1979 Charan Singh took over as the Prime Minister of India with the support of Congress (U) and Congress (I) for less than a month. He held the highest office without facing the Lok Sabha even once.
In 1984 he rechristened his "Lok Dal" as Dalit Mazdoor Kisan Party (DMKP) but later reverted to the old name ‘Lok Dal’. His personal life-style was simple and reflected his peasantry background. He understood problems of the farmer and did his best to help them. He was the chief formulator & implementor of the Zamindari Abolition Act. He rallied the people against landlord and moneylenders. He wrote a number of books concerning farmers like ‘Abolition of Zamindari’, ‘Cooperative Farming x-rayed’, ‘India’s poverty and its solution’
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