NOTWITHSTANDING that Chaudhary Devi Lal’s
ambition to be the Prime Minister was thwarted-he ending up as Deputy PM under
VP Singh and Chandrashekhar-Haryana did willy-nilly produce a PM, albeit
temporarily. Gulzari Lal Nanda, who was interim PM after the demise of
Jawaharlal Nehru in May 1964 and again after Lal Bahadur Shastri in January
1966, belonged to that part of Punjab which on November 1, 1966, emerged as
India’s 20th State, Haryana. Nanda was responsible for the emergence of
Faridabad, an industrial town on the fringe of Delhi, in the early sixties.
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