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  Why V P Singh Remains Relevant
As noteworthy as the presence of an impressive spectrum of leaders at Singh's 75th birthday was the absence of both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Samajwadi Party, who were at one time crucial to the formation and (brief) survival of the National Front government which Singh headed at the Centre in 1989-1990.
Singh stands at another junction, marking India's shift from a leader-driver, top-down, manipulative system of politics, to a politics of self-assertion by the plebeian classes, which is more democratically accountable.
Singh has tirelessly worked to defend the rights of slum-dwellers, rickshaw-pullers and other informal sector workers in the cities, and landless workers, Dalits and victims of displacement in the villages.
www.rediff.com /news/2006/jul/03bidwai.htm   (1618 words)

  
 V. P. Singh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vishwanath Pratap Singh (विश्वनाथ प्रताप सिंघ, born 25 June 1931) was the tenth Prime Minister of the Republic of India.
Singh himself made a much-publicised visit to the Golden Temple to ask forgiveness for Operation Bluestar and te combination of events caused the long rebellion in Punjab to die down markedly in a few months.
Singh was placed under arrest in Ghaziabad as he and his supporters were proceeding towards a hauling where prohibitory orders under Section 144 had been imposed to join the farmers agitating against the acquisition of land by the Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Industries and demanding adequate compensation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/V._P._Singh   (1301 words)

  
 V.P. Singh: Politician, messiah, painter... - India News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Singh's National Front government had in 1990 ordered the implementation of a voluminous report authored by B.P. Mandal that prescribed reservations for India's socially and economically classes that are estimated to form 53 percent of the country's population.
Singh sparked a virtual revolution in Indian politics when he took on his own prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, by alleging corruption in the purchase of artillery guns from Sweden's Bofors company.
Singh is a rare public figure in India who does not conceal his ailments, to the extent of providing medical reports to the media.
www.indiaenews.com /politics/20060625/12579.htm   (829 words)

  
 V.P. Singh, Raj Babbar arrested : India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Singh and Raj Babbar were arrested when they were on their way to join the demonstration.
He said V.P. Singh and Raj Babbar, who had earlier declared their decision to stage a demonstration, were duly informed about the court order that disallowed any activity, including demonstrations, on the 2,100-acre land.
While Singh and Raj Babbar accused Mulayam of 'doling out special favours to Anil Ambani at the expense of poor farmers', state Congress party president Salman Khurshid termed the caning of demonstrators as a reflection of 'barbarism by the Mulayam government'.
www.nerve.in /news:2535007592   (520 words)

  
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Vishwanath Pratap Singh to say that at that time I was unhappy in the BJP is not only far from the truth, but is [also] laughable." He denied that he had ever talked to Mr.
Singh was asked what came in the way of BJP leader Jaswant Singh's efforts that Mr.
V. Singh's response was: "At that time, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was unhappy in the BJP.
www.bjp.org /Newspaper/june_2006/june_2906_n.htm   (409 words)

  
 The Hindu : National : V.P. Singh turns 75, releases book
Singh said at a function prior to the dinner that Congressman M.L. Fotedar had told him soon after the 2004 election results were out that Ms.
While the Congress was led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and represented by Cabinet Ministers Santosh Mohan Deb and Meira Kumar at Mr.
The Janata Dal (United) was represented by Digvijay Singh and the Rashtriya Janata Dal by Cabinet Minister Raghuvansh Prasad at Mr.
www.hindu.com /2006/06/26/stories/2006062618141400.htm   (632 words)

  
 V P Singh's remark laughable, says Vajpayee
Former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee rebuffed another former Prime Minister V P Singh's book 'Manzil Se Zyada Safar' in which he said that Vajpayee was unhappy with BJP and wanted to quit the party in 1986.
V P Singh had released a book based on his political journey on his 75th birthday on June 26.
Commenting on Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar's denial to accompany the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his two-day visit to Vidarbha, Ravi Shankar Prasad opined that the prevailing difference of opinion among the coalition partners of the UPA government seemed to have come out.
news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/India/20060628/376841.html   (372 words)

  
 India Today [V P Singh: Formula Raja]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
At the heart of Singh's abstruseness is a scheme for a "tactical alliance" between the Congress and the United Front (UF) to ensure the presence of two "secular formations in the political arena.
Though Singh was courteous enough to inform UF Convenor N. Chandrababu Naidu of his scheme at Vice-President Krishan Kant's swearing-in, he has not formally approached the UF and the Congress for endorsements.
Singh's problems are compounded by the reluctance of the parties to even countenance compromise.
www.india-today.com /itoday/08091997/vpsingh.html   (1029 words)

  
 Zail Singh had offered Prime Ministership to V P Singh : HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Singh said when Rajiv Gandhi took over as Prime Minister, he had said there would be no middlemen in defence deals.
Singh denied that he had to quit the government in the wake of the controversy over the Bofors gun deal.
Singh said when he received the Bofors file, the instruction was to act fast as the army needed the weapon urgently.
www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1728888,00110004.htm   (386 words)

  
 Daily Excelsior...Business
Two former Prime Ministers V P Singh and Dev Gowda flayed the economic policy of the Government and called upon the farmers and the poor to show their power unitedly so as to turn the country’s economic policies in their favour.
Addressing a rally here yesterday, V P Singh said, ‘the new economic policy and globalisation have done just one thing—harmed the poor farmer, the worker and the youth through the bulldozer, unemployment and the police force’.
Singh also said the Government was not interested in the welfare of the poor and asked people to organise themselves and show their power to divert the policy in their favour and break the trend of the rich getting richer and the poor poorer.
www.dailyexcelsior.com /01feb20/busi.htm   (3165 words)

  
 Singh Kishen - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Singh, Kishen (1850-1921), Indian explorer in service to the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, whose explorations of central Asia revealed the...
Nain Singh’s cousin Kishen Singh, known by the code names “Krishna” or “A-K”, worked almost entirely in eastern Turkistan and Tibet.
Perhaps the bravest of all were the Pundits, the Hindu surveyors trained by the Survey of India, who penetrated Tibet disguised as Buddhist pilgrims....
uk.encarta.msn.com /Singh_Kishen.html   (107 words)

  
 "Arey Bhai, Masjid Hai Hi Kahaan...?"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
V P Singh said then that as the structure was valued by the Muslims and the site was sacred to the Hindus, he was for Rajmohan Gandhi's proposal - i.e., for shifting the mosque bricks to another site and constructing the temple at the site.
And so the Muslim leaders warned V P Singh, if you allow any construction even in the plot in which the shilanyas had been done, the Muslims will spurn you the same way they spurned Rajiv last year.
It was that a word from him that V P Singh had caved in to "Hindu fundamentalists" would erase the image which V P Singh had been so assiduously cultivating all this while.
www.hvk.org /ram/a1.html   (1799 words)

  
 V P Singh or Rajiv Gandhi? : HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
V P Singh, however, felt it was wrong to think this way.
The former Prime Minster then told Zail Singh "it is wrong to think this way." But he did not say what was Zail Singh's reaction to his refusal.
Singh, 75, also claimed that the Congress has been collecting funds for elections through defence deals right from the days of Indira Gandhi.
www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1728604,00110004.htm   (268 words)

  
 'V P Singh cheated Hindus and Muslims' - Sify.com
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) on Friday accused former Prime Minister V P Singh of allegedly cheating both Hindus and Muslims over the Ram Temple issue and said his claims on the issue in his new book are false.
Speaking to reporters, state SP president Ram Saran Das claimed that Singh, during his tenure as Prime Minister, had assured Hindu leaders that the temple would be built at Ayodhya, while he told the Muslims just the opposite.
"V P Singh is once again toeing the line of the Congress," Das said.
sify.com /news/fullstory.php?id=14239056   (164 words)

  
 Mandal II: Double medical seats, says V.P. Singh- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
NEW DELHI: Former prime minister V.P. Singh has suggested doubling the number of seats in medical institutes and a subsidised 'neighbourhood school scheme' to resolve the imbroglio over quotas for other backward classes in higher education institutions.
Commenting on the ongoing nationwide anti-quota stir in the country, Singh told a press conference here that he had spoken with Health Minister A. Ramadoss on the issue of doubling seats in medical institutes within a year.
"The health minister told me this is possible," said Singh - who had stirred the hornet's nest as prime minister in 1990 by announcing 27 percent job quotas for backward classes on the basis of the recommendations of a statutory commission called the Mandal Commission.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1539750.cms   (435 words)

  
 V P Singh to depose before Ayodhya panel- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
new delhi: the liberhan ayodhya commission of inquiry has finally decided to call former prime minister v p singh for deposition on october 10 and 11.
``witnesses like uma bharati, k s sudershan, l k advani, m m joshi, v h dalmia have unanimously blamed singh for dilly-dallying on the ayodhya matter and have openly criticised him for the withdrawal of 1990 ordinance.
singh will also be asked on various steps he had in mind to deal with the ayodhya issue.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow.asp?art_id=1483440610   (256 words)

  
 NTI: Country Overviews: India: Nuclear Chronology
Singh authorizes Arunachalam to continue with the program to "reach a point in the development stage that ensured that the weapons could be assembled in the shortest possible time." However, Prime Minister Singh rules out nuclear tests in view of India's economic difficulties and deteriorating relations with Pakistan.
Singh discusses the issue with his principal secretary telling him: "This is scary.
Singh later recalls, "it was clear we had to end the wink and nudge approach.
www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/India/Nuclear/2296_2821.html   (8077 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
Former Prime Minister V.P Singh today clarified that Congress President Sonia Gandhi had declined the Prime Minister’s post in 2004 not because of security concerns but because she did not want to give the BJP an opportunity to embarrass the new government on the issue of her foreign origin.
Stating that her views appeared to be very genuine, Mr V.P Singh said it was incorrect to say that she had given up the post because she feared for her life.
Mr V.P Singh’s biography titled “Manzil Se Safar Zyada”, which was released on this occasion, contains a detailed account of those turbulent days when the NDA Government was swept out of power and the Congress-led UPA took over the reins of the country.
www.tribuneindia.com /2006/20060626/main3.htm   (513 words)

  
 Desicritics.org: V P Singh Reaping the Profits of a McDonald's Franchise?
Mr V P Singh, former Prime Minister of India and the 40th Raja of Manda (in Allahabad), who came to power in 1989 after displaying the blank side of a white chit in rallies after rallies claiming that it had Rajiv Gandhi's Swiss bank account codes, has now fashioned himself into an elder-ailing statesman.
This single act was the defining moment of Mr Singh's prime ministerial tenure and it raised him to the image of both Angel and Demon, depending on which side of the reservation divide you were.
A small news-story in The Times of India recently reported that the supporters of the ruling Samajwadi Party of Uttar Pradesh, agitated with Mr Singh's protest against the Ambani project, ransacked a multiplex mall being built by Ajeya Singh, V P Singh's son, in his hometown Allahabad.
desicritics.org /2006/08/26/070126.php   (1070 words)

  
 LWRRI PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Singh, P. and V. Singh, 2000, Snow and Glacier Hydrology.
Singh, V. Bengtsson, and G. Westerstrom, 2000, Kinematic Wave Modelling of Saturated Basal Flow in a Snowpack.
Westerstrom, G. and V. Singh, 2000, An Investigation of Snowmelt Runoff on Experimental Plots in Lulea, Sweden.
www.lwrri.lsu.edu /peerpub.htm   (2534 words)

  
 Punjab Kesari English Articles
I feel VP Singh led Third Front can change the political scenario in U.P. It is too early to comment as to who will suffer more loss between Mayawati and Mulayam.One thing is clear that Mulayam will be a big looser because Mayawati's vote bank is quite strong.
V P Singh has a big task ahead to keep his team unite.
For V P Singh also, it is a big challenge of his political life.
www.punjabkesari.com /frmEngArtDet.aspx?EId=447   (604 words)

  
 India News : 'Singur model for country' says V P Singh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kolkata: Acquisition of land in Singur for Tata Motors small car project may not be to the liking of opposition parties in West Bengal, but the process followed for purchasing land has come in for praise from former Prime Minisrer V P Singh.
In an earlier letter to Bhattacharjee, circulated to the media in Delhi on Friday, Singh had said that the land acquired for the project was highly fertile and the sole source of livelihood of the villagers.
Following the letter, Singh also reportedly spoke on telephone to the chief minister and threatened to launch an agitation if the state government did not desist from giving fertile land to the Tatas.
www.keralanext.com /news/index.asp?id=879728   (230 words)

  
 Dr. Karan Singh
The first was led by V.P. Singh, and supported from outside both the Left Front and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
In less than eighteen months V. Singh's government collapsed, then Chandrasekhar was supported from outside, but his government collapsed within six months.
Coalition is an entirely legitimate form of political organisation known throughout the world, but to be stable a coalition must represent a majority in the lower House.
www.karansingh.com /politics/india-fifty.htm   (3596 words)

  
 V P Singh's claims are laughable: Vajpayee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
"V P Singh's remarks that I was then unhappy with the party is not only far from the truth but is laughable," Vajpayee said in a statement.
He insisted that Singh's book could create confusion "that is why, I am giving this statement to clear the doubts," Vajpayee, who also expressed surprise over Singh's references to him in his book, said.
There are stories of VP singh's intimate relation...
www.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=70111   (316 words)

  
 Ayodhya and After - Chapter 5 - Ram Janmabhoomi Politics
Later, one of V.P. Singh's aides was to come out in defense of his boss saying that a lot of consultations had taken place, but that a compromise was just not possible.
Arun Shourie has made the point that V.P. Singh gave in twice to the pressure from such secularists as Imam Bukhari, when they threatened V.P. Singh with the prospect of the Muslim vote bank deserting him the way it had deserted Rajiv Gandhi in 1989.
V.P. Singh insisted on proving his majority in the Lok Sabha, on November 7, knowing that only a rump of some 90 Janata Dal MPs plus the Communists would support him.
www.voi.org /books/ayodhya/ch5.htm   (4329 words)

  
 V P Singh mum on Deve Gowda’s stand - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Though most of the speakers at the AIPJD convention in Bangalore on Tuesday lashed out at JD(S) leader H D Deve Gowda for his party joining hands with the BJP, former Prime Minister V P Singh was mum on the issue.
According to sources in the Gowda camp, Mr Singh called Mr Gowda over phone in the afternoon and said he would visit his residence later in the day if time permits.
It is learnt that some of the AIPJD leaders urged Mr Singh not to visit Gowda’s residence.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/Apr262006/state61022006426.asp   (336 words)

  
 Babbar, V P Singh launch new party - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
While announcing the formation of the party, Mr Singh said that representatives of other smaller parties had extended their support to the initiative.
Mr Singh and Mr Babbar’s announcement comes at a time when the latter’s erstwhile Samajwadi Party was in talks to form a third front, minus Congress and BJP.
Agra MP Babbar said he would be fulfiling the responsibility bestowed on him and announced that the Morcha will organise “Dera Daalo, Ghera Daalo” programme in Lucknow on May 29 to protest against the state government’s policies towards the farming sections of the society as also growing lawlessness and corruption.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/apr242006/national219152006423.asp   (429 words)

  
 Vishwanath Pratap Singh - V.P. Singh : Former Prime Minister of India
It is a long journey from being a scion of the landed aristocracy positioning itself to increase its holdings, to a politician of the party in power, and finally to becoming a citizen of a republic with the ideal of social justice enshrined in its constitution.
That Vishwanath Pratap Singh has succeeded in undertaking this journey is to his credit.
And it was his activism, his writing and his art that have shielded him in the past as they will in the future too.
www.vpsingh.in   (196 words)

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