V. P. Singh - Wikipedia
WEBVishwanath Pratap Singh (25 June 1931 – 27 November 2008), shortened to V. P. Singh, was an Indian politician who was Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990 [2] and the 41st Raja Bahadur of Manda.
V.P. Singh | Biography, Education, Party, & Facts | Britannica
WEBV.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 …
V. P. Singh ministry - Wikipedia
WEBV. P. Singh ministry. Janata Dal (National Front) (Supported by BJP 85/543 MPs). 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.
Premiership of V. P. Singh - Wikipedia
WEBPremiership 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. Singh becomes the 7th Prime Minister of India, after the loss of Rajiv Gandhi ...
V. P. Singh, a Leader of India Who Defended Poor, Dies at 77
WEBNov 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,...
India - V.P. Singh, Coalition, Fall | Britannica
WEB4 days 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.
V.P. Singh, former prime minister of India, dies at 77
WEBNov 28, 2008 · NEW DELHI — Former Prime Minister V.P. Singh, remembered for his controversial policy of reserving a larger share of jobs for India's disadvantaged castes, has died after a long battle with...
How 1989 elections led to a one-year VP Singh term and the …
WEBMay 16, 2024 · Prime Minister V P Singh after being sworn in on December 2, 1989, flanked by President R Venkataraman and Rajiv Gandhi to his right, and Vice President Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma and Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhary Devi Lal to his left.
The years of V P Singh, and the start-stop push to reforms
WEBJul 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.
V.P. Singh: Brilliant tactician - India Today
WEBAug 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!”.