Chaudhary Charan Singh: The Messiah of Farmers and a Lifelong Champion of Rural India
Every year on December 23, India observes National Farmers’ Day (Kisan Diwas) to commemorate the birth anniversary of Chaudhary Charan Singh, the fifth Prime Minister of India and one of the most influential advocates of farmers’ rights in the country’s history. Revered as the “Messiah of Farmers”, Chaudhary Charan Singh dedicated his entire life to the upliftment of rural India, agrarian reforms, and the dignity of the farming community.
Born into a farming family, Charan Singh understood the struggles of rural India not from textbooks, but from lived experience. Throughout his political journey, he consistently raised his voice for farmers’ economic security, fair land distribution, and social justice. At a time when industrial growth dominated national discourse, he firmly asserted t...









