Ploughing a lonely furrow

OF all his politician contemporaries in Uttar Pradesh, Chaudhary Charan Singh is the only one who stands out as a character. The others, Chandra Bhan Gupta, Kamalapati Tripathi and Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna, were merely politicians. Two others of the time come to mind: the socialist leader, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia, and his maverick follower, Raj Narain. Each was a character in his own right but the first was a national leader and in every way a class apart from Charan Singh; the second, though remarkable, was in a totally different category........ReadMore