Following the victory of the Janata Party in the 1977 general elections, he became the Minister for External Affairs in the Janata government headed by Morarji Desai.

The Janata Party won with a huge majority in 1977 and formed the government with Morarji Desai as Prime Minister.

The plans were never implemented as mounting tensions between the ashram and the Janata Party government of Morarji Desai resulted in an impasse.

Desai created a sensation by bringing out a hand-written cyclostyled newspaper after the printing press was confiscated by the British government.

B. Raman, the former head of the Counter-Terrorism Division of R & AW and noted security analyst, reveals that, in an unguarded moment, Morarji Desai indiscreetly told Pakistan's Chief Martial Law Administrator General Zia ul-Haq that his government was well aware of Pakistan's nuclear development.

He served as Deputy prime minister and home minister in Janata government headed by Morarji Desai.

Political leaders such as Jayaprakash Narayan and Congress ( O ) chief Morarji Desai condemned Indira's government as dictatorial and corrupt.

On June 25, Narayan and Desai held a massive rally in Delhi, calling for a " Satyagraha "-a campaign of non-violent civil disobedience to force the government to resign.

The first actions taken by the Desai government were to formally end the state of emergency and media censorship and repeal the controversial executive decrees issued during the Emergency.

Prime Minister Morarji Desai and the Minister of External Affairs Atal Bihari Vajpayee began significant changes in India's foreign policy, moving away from the course adopted by Indira's government.

The Desai government re-established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, which had been severed due to the Sino-Indian War of 1962.

The Desai government ended India's support for the guerrillas loyal to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader of Bangladesh, who had been assassinated in 1975 by military officers and replaced by a military regime that sought to distance itself from India.

On July 19, 1979 Desai resigned from the government and eventually retired to his home in Mumbai ( then Bombay ).

The issue of " dual membership " caused Morarji Desai to lose the vote of confidence, and his government was reduced to a minority in the Lok Sabha.

The prime land under the mango and guava plantation owned by the Topiwala Desai family was taken over by theMaharashtra government and handed over to the Mumbai Housing Board during the 1950s.

Congress ( A ) was a political party founded by Antony when he split from the Indian National Congress ( Urs ) a splinter group of the Indian National Congress ( and opposed Indira Gandhi in inner party politics during the time when she was prosecuted by the Morarji Desai government, splitting off from the parent party with Devraj Urs.

In the late 1970s, the government led by Morarji Desai eased restrictions on capacity expansion for incumbent companies, removed price controls, reduced corporate taxes and promoted the creation of small scale industries in large numbers.

Congress ( O )' s leader Morarji Desai served as Prime Minister of India of the Janata government from 1977 to 1979.

The Mandal Commission was established in India in 1979 by the Janata Party government under Prime Minister Morarji Desai with a mandate to " identify the socially or educationally backward.

He with Madhu Limaye was also responsible for the collapse of the Morarji Desai government installed by that coalition, by insisting that no member of the Janata Party could be the member of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ( RSS ).

The issue led to fall of Morarji Desai government in 1979, and the destruction of the Janata coalition

In the next government of Moraji Desai he was appointed as Minister of Civil Supplies, Social Welfare and Forests.

In 1978 the newly elected Morarji Desai government rejected the plan.

Through 1979, support for Morarji Desai had declined considerably due to worsening economic conditions as well as the emergence of allegations of nepotism and corruption involving members of his family.

* Great Circles on Mercator's Chart by John Snyder with additional contributions by Jeff Bryant, Pratik Desai, and Carl Woll, Wolfram Demonstrations Project.

The iXXi Briefings are private discussions which are attended by 40 experts from within LSE and elsewhere and are chaired by Lord Desai.

* Rush ( 2012 film ), a Bollywood thriller film directed by Shamin Desai

Cushing Food Mart, which was recently opened by Mahesh Desai and Vipul Patel to provide the community with conveniences that include food, gas, and video movies.

* A leading Marathi entertainment channel, ETV-Marathi has launched a daily serial " Shrimant Peshwa Baji Rao Mastani " being produced by Nitin Chandrakant Desai Production from 14 June 2010.

Desai wrote several books on the non-violent struggles led by Gandhi in India, and a diary called Day to Day with Gandhi in nine volumes.

* Works by Mahadev Desai

Outflanked in the leadership contest after Nehru's death in 1964 by the Nehruvian Lal Bahadur Shastri, Desai remained content to build support within the ranks.

Morarji Desai is survived by his son Kanti Desai, two grandsons Bharat and Jagdeep Desai and four great grand children.

The leader of the Bharatiya Lok Dal, a major constituent of the Janata coalition, he was disappointed in his ambition to become Prime Minister in 1977 by Jayaprakash Narayan's choice of Morarji Desai.

Jigna Desai holds that by the 21st century Indian cinema had managed to become ' deterritorialized ', spreading over to the many parts of the world where Indian diaspora was present in significant numbers, and becoming an alternative to other international cinema.

The Janata Party and its allies came to power, headed by Morarji Desai, who became the first non-Congress Prime Minister of India.

* Mufti Ebrahim Desai ( for the members of the Deobandi sect )

Desai was among the founding members of the All India Newspaper Editors ' Conference.

Current members of the Advisory Board are listed as: Jacques Barzun, Ph. D., Edward A. Capano, Denton Cooley, M. D., Midge Decter, Jorge Delgado, Dinesh Desai, Mrs. Richard DeVos, George Gilder, Nathan Glazer, Ph. D., Charles Gogolak, Lee Majors, Laura McKenzie, Harvey Meyerhoff, Barbara Mujica, Ph. D., Alex Olmedo, Arnold Palmer, Margie Petersen, Norman Podhoretz, Donald M. Ross, Randolph Rowland, James Schlesinger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Norman D. Shumway, Rodney Smith, Alex Trebek, George W. Wilson, and Roger Wildermuth.

One of the first members to join the production team was Nitin Chandrakant Desai, the art director, with whom Ashutosh set out for extensive location hunt throughout India, to find the setting for the fictional town of Champaner, in late 1998.

Under the leadership of Bhairavi Desai, the union has grown to fifteen thousand members ( 2011 estimate ), representing almost a third of all licensed cabdrivers in the city.