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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 7th Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990 and the 41st Raja Bahadur of Manda.
Vishwanath Pratap Singh was sworn in as Prime Minister of India on 2 December 1989. His initial ministry consisted of the following Cabinet ministers and their departments. The Cabinet was functional from the 2 December 1989 to 10 November 1990.
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.
Premiership of V. P. Singh. Vishwanath Pratap Singh held office for slightly less than a year, from 2 December 1989 to 10 November 1990. After state legislative elections in March 1990, Singh's governing coalition achieved control of both houses of India's parliament.
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.
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.
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...
Jul 21, 2015 · In May 1990, when Prime Minister V P Singh went to Kuala Lumpur for a meeting of the Group of 15, he was taken aback by the rapid progress that Malaysia seemed to have made since his last visit to that country in 1985, when he was Commerce Minister in Rajiv Gandhi’s Cabinet.
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,...
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.
