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Gulzarilal Nanda
Indian politician and economist (1898–1998)
Gulzarilal Nanda (4 July 1898 – 15 January 1998)[1][2] was an Indian politician and economist who specialised in labour issues.
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He was the Acting Prime Minister of India for two 13-day tenures following the deaths of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964 and Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966 respectively. Both his terms ended after the ruling Indian National Congress's parliamentary party elected a new prime minister.
He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in 1997.
Early life
Birth
Nanda was born on 4 July 1898 in Sialkot in the Punjab, British India in a Punjabi HinduKhatri family.[3] Sialkot later became a part of the Punjab Province of Pakistan in 1947, after the partition of India.
Nanda received his education in Lahore, Amritsar, Agra, and Allahabad.
He met Mahatma Gandhi in 1921, where he settled in Gujarat on his request.[citation needed]