Mass Leader of Delhi
A strong Indira Gandhi loyalist,was known as the uncrowned King of Delhi in the 1980s. He was a mass based leader, and was responsible for a Congress comeback in 1980 and 1983 elections in Delhi. He was known to have a strong group in the Congress Party, he won his first Lok Sabha election in 1980 from the East Delhi constituency in Delhi. He grew in political stature after Congress(I)'s victory in the local elections (1983). He held important ministerial positions, including Information and Broadcasting, and made the state-run TV "Doordarshan" the Congress party's mouthpiece during the mid to late 1980s.
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