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Balram Jakhar

1923 - 2016

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Balram Jakhar (23 August 1923 – 3 February 2016) was an Indian politician, who served as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha and Governor of Madhya Pradesh. He was also the longest serving Speaker of the Lok Sabha, whose tenure lasted 9 years and 329 days. Jakhar was among the popular faces of Jat politics in Rajasthan during 1980s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Balram Jakhar has received more than 442,647 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Balram Jakhar is the 17,209th most popular politician (down from 15,815th in 2019), the 909th most popular biography from India (down from 774th in 2019) and the 249th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Balram Jakhar ranks 17,209 out of 19,576. Before him are Claude Onesta, Hiram Fong, Thomas Norton, Isidore Mvouba, Mark Hanna, and Vadym Prystaiko. After him are Ed Lee, Abraham Beame, Mariusz Błaszczak, Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu, and Andris Šķēle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Balram Jakhar ranks 463. Before him are Aleksy Antkiewicz, Sergey Mikaelyan, Antonio Siddi, Horace Ashenfelter, Theo Fitzau, and Balbir Singh Sr.. After him are Dale Robertson, Judith Merril, Chuck Daigh, Jimmy Mullen, Don Barksdale, and Larry Rivers. Among people deceased in 2016, Balram Jakhar ranks 535. Before him are Pat Conroy, Eddie Keizan, Tyrus Wong, Klaus Siebert, Zyta Gilowska, and Sammy Lee. After him are Vanity, Toimi Pitkänen, Daniel Willems, Everton Kempes dos Santos Gonçalves, Kitty Kallen, and Joe Medicine Crow.

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In India

Among people born in India, Balram Jakhar ranks 909 out of 1,861. Before him are Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II (1734), Aasif Mandvi (1966), Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938), Kaifi Azmi (1919), Sushmita Sen (1975), and Balbir Singh Sr. (1923). After him are Abhay Ashtekar (1949), Sudha Chandran (1965), Kanan Devi (1916), Dorabji Tata (1859), Nandini Satpathy (1931), and Uddhav Thackeray (1960).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Balram Jakhar ranks 249. Before him are Krishan Kant (1927), Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar (1919), Mridula Sinha (1942), Parmanand Jha (1944), Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (1944), and Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II (1734). After him are Nandini Satpathy (1931), Uddhav Thackeray (1960), V. K. Sasikala (1954), Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy (1972), Asaf Ali (1888), and Uma Bharti (1959).

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