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Vishwanath Pratap Singh (25 June 1931 – 27 November 2008), shortened to V. P. Singh, was an Indian politician who was the Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990 [2] and the 41st Raja Bahadur of Manda.
Shri Vishwanath Pratap Singh. December 2, 1989 - November 10, 1990 | Janata Dal. Born on June 25, 1931 at Allahabad, Shri V.P. Singh is the son of Raja Bahadur Ram Gopal Singh. He was educated at Allahabad and Poona Universities. He was married to Smt. Sita Kumari on June 25, 1955 and has two sons.
Jun 22, 2024 · V.P. Singh, politician and government official who was prime minister of India 1989–90. He was the principal founder in 1988 of the Janata Dal political party, which he used as a cornerstone to create a large nationwide opposition coalition called the National Front.
1 day ago · V.P. Singh, who had initially denied any interest in becoming prime minister, emerged after the 1989 elections as the leader of the loosely knit JD coalition whose extreme wings were basically antipathetic to each other.
May 16, 2024 · V P Singh. In the lead-up to the 1989 Lok Sabha elections, Rajiv Gandhi’s aura dissipated rapidly as he made political mistakes and the government was mired in the Bofors corruption scandal. What followed was a turbulent phase in Indian politics. Here is part 9 of our series on the history of Indian elections.
Nov 30, 2008 · V. P. Singh, a former prime minister of India who was considered the father of coalition politics there and who stirred controversy by championing the rights of the country’s poorest citizens,...
Nov 15, 1990 · Vishwanath Pratap Singh was the man of the moment. He was the vanquisher of Rajiv Gandhi's government which had degenerated from promise to putrefaction within three years. Singh chose for himself an apposite title - a manager of contradictions acceptable to a vast cross section of society.
Singh becomes the 7th Prime Minister of India, after the loss of Rajiv Gandhi in the 1989 Indian general election. Singh's newly formed National Front (India) won 143 seats in the Lok Sabha and was supported by Bharatiya Janata Party from outside.
Nov 27, 2008 · New Delhi: Former prime minister V.P. Singh, who dethroned Rajiv Gandhi to form, in 1989, India’s second non-Congress coalition government and later tried social engineering through...
Aug 21, 2021 · The emergence of V.P. Singh as an independent political entity was one of the climactic events in India’s ongoing political drama. It marked the end of Congress as the country’s dominant political power. No wonder, L.K. Advani had remarked: “If there wasn’t a V.P. Singh, we’d have to create one!”.
