IK Gujral, an Indian politician and former Prime Minister of India, was born in Jhelum, British India, in 1919.
Inder Kumar Gujral was born in 1919 to Avtar Narain and Pushpa Gujral in Jhelum, Pakistan. He was born into a family of independence fighters; both of his parents were involved in the liberation movement. Satish and Uma, his brother and sister, also joined the liberation war. Inder Kumar Gujral, popularly known as I.K. Gujral, was an Indian politician who was the country's twelfth Prime Minister. He was a poet who discovered his true vocation in politics during his undergraduate years. He came from a family of great patriots; his father and mother were active in the independence movement, and his sister and brother were also renowned as freedom fighters at the time.
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