News Politics National When PM Morarji Desai went to work with three ribs broken after surviving plane crash in Assam

When PM Morarji Desai went to work with three ribs broken after surviving plane crash in Assam

New Delhi: Not many people know much about the life and times of India's first non-Congress prime minister Morarji Desai, the great son of Valsad, Gujarat. His great grandson Madhukeshwar Desai is the son of



Madhukeshwar writes:  " It was believed that once Desai had made up his mind, it was impossible to change it. But Shanti Bhushan, the law minister in his cabinet and a well-known senior advocate at the Supreme Court, told me something different: “When a cabinet minister had a view which differed from Morarjibhai's, he didn't impose his views and dismiss it. If logic and reasoning was shown, then he would go with the opinion of the minister and not his own.”

The great grandson writes: "A stubborn man with a cruel face, a man who stuck to his ideas and principles regardless of the situation, and a man of obstinacy and discipline who lived almost a century. This is how history remembers Morarji Desai. But should it be just that?"