Vishwanath Pratap Singh

Vishwanath Pratap Singh ( Hindi विश्वनाथ प्रताप सिंह Viśvanāth Pratāp Siṅh ; born June 25, 1931 in Allahabad in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India ; † November 27, 2008 in New Delhi ) was the seventh from December 2, 1989 to November 10, 1990 Prime Minister of India . His party Janata Dal won the 1989 elections in India together with the communist party.

Life

Vishwanath Pratap Singh was born the only child of an Indian royal family. His father Raja Bahadur Ram Gopal Singh ruled the small princely state of Manda . He studied at the universities of Allahabad and Pune . He was elected a member of the Indian Parliament in 1967. From 1980 to 1982 he was Chief Minister of the State of Uttar Pradesh. From 1984 to 1987 he was finance minister in the government of Rajiv Gandhi and then moved to the defense department. After the Bofors scandal , Singh became a harsh critic of the government and Rajiv Gandhi and eventually resigned from his ministerial office and was expelled from the Congress Party at Gandhi's instigation. He then gave back his mandate and founded a new party Jan Morcha (“Popular Front”) with other dissidents from the Congress Party . In a by-election in the Allahabad constituency in Uttar Pradesh, Singh was re-elected to the Lok Sabha.

On October 11, 1988, the Jan Morcha merged with most of the Janata Party and the Lok Dal to form a new party, the Janata Dal ("People's Party") and Singh was elected party leader of the Janata Dal. In the parliamentary elections in 1989 , the Janata Dal won 27% of the parliamentary seats and then formed a minority government with Singh as prime minister.

After the split in his party and his overthrow by a vote of no confidence in parliament, he had to hand over the office to his internal party opponent Chandra Shekhar as early as 1990 .

Singh died at the age of 77 from multiple myeloma with associated kidney failure . He was on 27 November 2008 with full state honors on the banks of the Ganges after Hindu ritual cremated .

Web links

Commons : VP Singh - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ NDTV: VP Singh passes away from November 27, 2008.
↑ Steven R. Weisman: Is the Raja Ready for War, or Losing His Steam? The New York Times, October 8, 1987, accessed October 24, 2014 .
↑ Steven R. Weisman: Gandhi Is Finding Out Fast How Much He Had to Lose. The New York Times, July 3, 1987, accessed October 18, 2014 .
^ Rise and fall of VP Singh - General Elections 1989 - Emergence of caste politics on a large scale. Retrieved October 24, 2014 .
^ VP Singh passes away. The Hindu, November 28, 2008, accessed October 18, 2014 .
^ VP Singh Cremated. outlookindia.com, November 29, 2008, accessed October 18, 2014 .

personal data
SURNAME	Singh, Vishwanath Pratap
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Indian Prime Minister, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
DATE OF BIRTH	June 25, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Allahabad , Uttar Pradesh State , India
DATE OF DEATH	November 27, 2008
Place of death	New Delhi

[1] NDTV: VP Singh passes away from November 27, 2008.

[2] Steven R. Weisman: Is the Raja Ready for War, or Losing His Steam? The New York Times, October 8, 1987, accessed October 24, 2014 .

[3] Steven R. Weisman: Gandhi Is Finding Out Fast How Much He Had to Lose. The New York Times, July 3, 1987, accessed October 18, 2014 .

[4] Rise and fall of VP Singh - General Elections 1989 - Emergence of caste politics on a large scale. Retrieved October 24, 2014 .

[5] VP Singh passes away. The Hindu, November 28, 2008, accessed October 18, 2014 .

[6] VP Singh Cremated. outlookindia.com, November 29, 2008, accessed October 18, 2014 .