|Chandra Shekhar was born on July 1, 1927 to a peasant family in Uttar Pradesh, India. He was the ninth Prime Minister of India. Chandra Shekhar took his M.A degree from Allahabad University and was famous as a firebrand in student politics. In the very beginning of his political career, he got exposed to a prominent Socialist leader Acharya Narendra Dev. For five years, Chandra Shekhar belonged to the Rajya Sabha. In 1984, he started a nationwide padayatra, in order to know the country better. He was a member of the Lok Sabha and led Samajwadi Janta Party. In 1977, he won the Lok Sabha election 8 times in eastern Uttar Pradesh.