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Charan Singh
11 quotes
“The true India resides in its villages.”
Charan Singh (1902–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After graduation I was offered a post as Vice-Principal at the Jat High School but in that there was the name of a caste and I could not accept that. I have always been opposed to this social system since my childhood.”
Charan Singh (1902–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stig Toft Madsen, et al, in: Trysts with Democracy: Political Practice in South Asia, Anthem Press, 2011, P.80
“Non-Jats also vote for him. How many districts are there in UP and how many districts are there in which in which this animal of a Jat is found? Is there anything in my life to suggest that I am casteist? In 1954, I wrote a letter to Nehru, it is on record, in which I suggested that all candidates for gazette jobs must marry outside their own caste. And if a man married inside his caste while holding such a job, he would have to resign.”
Charan Singh (1902–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The first thing our leadership in 1947 should have done was to delegalize all communal bodies. All organizations whose membership was confined to a particular caste or religion should have been disallowed from the political field.”
Charan Singh (1902–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Political leadership of the country must remember that nothing mocks our values and dreams more than the desperate struggle of our people for existence. Nothing could, therefore be more poignant than the look of despair in the eyes of a starving child. Nothing could therefore, be a more patriotic objective for our political leaders than to ensure that no child will go to bed hungry, that no family will fear for its next day's bread and that the future and capacities of not a dingle Indian will be allowed to be stunted by mal-nutrition.”
Charan Singh (1902–1987) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 28 July 1979, Broadcast to the Indian nation, extract from "Selected Speeches of Charan Singh" (1992), p. 1
“The name of the Congress is mud. There is utter lack of leaderdhip in the state.”
Charan Singh (1902–1987) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to Nehru when he resigned from a minster's post from the Sampurnanand ministry in 1952 in UP, p. 196
“The Jat community votes for non-sectarian in lines far greater proportion than any other in Meerut. They are un-educated, live in villages, have no pull in the public, economic or administrative life of the country and yet would not reconcile themselves to an inferior position in society. They would not put with the taunt of being a Jat. Fifty percent of the Hindu Jats within a short period of 40 years (1891-1931) left their old faith to turn Sikhs or Muslims so that nobody could any longer treat them with contempt.”
Charan Singh (1902–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a Jat, born in a Jat family. A Muslim I can become immediately, but I cannot become a Brahmin, I cannot become a Rajput. Nor can I become even a Vaishya. And If I want to become a Harijan, even that is impossible, because the constitution does not permit it. It is better if this sort of caste system is destroyed…”
Charan Singh (1902–1987) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: His resentment of being born a Jat which expressed in a speech in 1977 p. 204
“That abolition of the privy purse will strengthen and ensure success of democracy is pure bunkum. Advanced countries like Britain and Japan are not less democratic or less progressive for the maintenance of their kings and princes. Royalty was not abolished even by socialist parties when they came to power in these countries.”
Charan Singh (1902–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...quite a number of Congressmen are disguised as communists. They will go with Mrs Gandhi to the ultimate end. They have always been enemies of democracy. Behind-them is the Right CPI and behind it is Soviet Russia.”
Charan Singh (1902–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our poverty has to be eliminated and the basic necessities of life made available to every single citizen. Political leadership of the country must remember that nothing mocks our values and our dreams more than the desperate struggle of our people for existence; nothing could therefore be more poignant than the look of despair in the eyes of a starving child. Nothing could therefore be a more patriotic objective for our political leaders than to ensure that no child will go to bed hungry, that no family will fear for its next day's bread and that the future and capacities of not a single Indian will be allowed to be stunted by malnutrition.”
Charan Singh (1902–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source