Background
I. I. Chundrigar belonged to the Muslim Chundrigar Gujjar community, and was born in 1897 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and educated at Bombay University.
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I. I. Chundrigar belonged to the Muslim Chundrigar Gujjar community, and was born in 1897 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and educated at Bombay University.
University of Mumbai.
He was re-elected every year up to October 1946. He was one of the five men nominated on behalf of the League, the other four being Liaquat Ali Khan, Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Abdur Rab Nishtar, and Jogendra Nath Mandal. In the Interim Government, Chundrigar took the portfolio of Commerce.
Chundrigar was appointed Minister for Trade and Commerce in the first cabinet of independent Pakistan in 1947.
He later served as ambassador to Afghanistan, governor of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, governor of West Punjab, and Minister for Law. After merely a year, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy resigned from his Premiership in October 1957.
His resignation came as a result of the President"s refusal to convene a meeting of the Parliament to seek a vote of confidence. President Iskander Mirza appointed I. I. Chundrigar as the interim Prime Minister.
Being a nominated Prime Minister, Chundrigar held a weak position from the very beginning.
After the formation of the Cabinet, Ministers from East Pakistan and the Republican Party started opposing the proposed amendments. Iskander Mirza exploited the differences between the parties and thus made Chundrigar an easy victim as he remained Prime Minister for only two months and therefore could not give any practical shape to his program