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Desai ministry

council of Minister Under Prime Minister Morarji Desai

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ123050648 ↗
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The Morarji Desai ministry was formed on 24 March 1977 following the 1977 Indian general election. Morarji Desai led the Janata Party to victory against the Congress party. Upon taking office, Morarji Desai became the first Indian Prime Minister not belonging to the Congress party.

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“Desai ministry” enters the record as council of Minister Under Prime Minister Morarji Desai. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Desai, ministry and council can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Desai ministry” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.