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Chandra Shekhar

1927 - 2007

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Chandra Shekhar (17 April 1927 – 8 July 2007), known as Jananayak, was an Indian politician who served as the 8th Prime Minister of India, between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991. He headed a minority government of a breakaway faction of the Janata Dal with outside support from the Indian National Congress. He was the first Indian Prime Minister who had never held any prior government office.His government was formed with the fewest party MPs in the Lok Sabha. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chandra Shekhar has received more than 2,588,145 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Chandra Shekhar is the 9,027th most popular politician (up from 9,392nd in 2019), the 309th most popular biography from India (up from 322nd in 2019) and the 104th most popular Indian Politician.

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Over the past year Chandra Shekhar has had the most page views in the with 397,828 views, followed by Hindi (49,375), and Kannada (6,488). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Serbian (239.53%), Ido (107.72%), and Esperanto (103.11%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Chandra Shekhar ranks 9,027 out of 19,576. Before him are Lais of Hyccara, Shalmaneser II, Ghazi Muhammad, Ngô Quyền, Rauf Orbay, and Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck. After him are Luigi Longo, Adam Wilhelm Moltke, Kazimira Prunskienė, Malmfred of Kiev, Jan Fischer, and Ba Maw.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Chandra Shekhar ranks 139. Before him are Ahmad Jannati, Joe Turkel, Vladimir Ilyushin, Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Gordon Cooper, and L. K. Advani. After him are Althea Gibson, Coretta Scott King, Allan Kaprow, Gae Aulenti, William Labov, and Roger Walkowiak. Among people deceased in 2007, Chandra Shekhar ranks 126. Before him are Aden Adde, Delbert Mann, Sa'dun Hammadi, Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, Eleonora Rossi Drago, and Bo Yibo. After him are Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, Ivica Račan, Dabbs Greer, Andranik Margaryan, Barbara West, and Maria Gripe.

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In India

Among people born in India, Chandra Shekhar ranks 309 out of 1,861. Before him are Savitri (1936), Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (1952), Asha Bhosle (1933), K. Kamaraj (1903), Zail Singh (1916), and Telesphore Toppo (1939). After him are Rajinikanth (1950), Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861), Vallabha (1479), Rishabhanatha (null), Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842), and Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Chandra Shekhar ranks 104. Before him are Hyder Ali (1720), Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886), M. S. Swaminathan (1925), Nana Sahib (1824), K. Kamaraj (1903), and Zail Singh (1916). After him are Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861), Kocheril R. Narayanan (1921), Hussain Muhammad Ershad (1930), Sikandar Lodi (1450), Bahubali (null), and Rajnath Singh (1951).

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