G. N. Sharma was the second chief minister of the Delhi

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 from 1955 to 1956 and was a Congress

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 leader. He was the successor of Chaudhary Brahm Prakash and assumed office

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 in 1955 just for one year, after that Indian Government

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 passed a bill in the parliament

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 which made Delhi a Union Territory

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; due to which no one had appointed as the next chief minister of the Delhi until in January 1, 1993, when a central government passed a Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi act in parliament to provide Delhi special rights of partial statehood.