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	V. P. Singh Summary
		Born in the north Indian city of Allahabad on June 25, 1931, Vishwanath Pratap Singh was adopted by the raja (ruler) of Manda principality in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
		Vishwanath Pratap Singh (born 25 June 1931) was the seventh 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.
	www.bookrags.com /V._P._Singh (2547 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.
		In a dramatic meeting in the Central Hall of Parliament on the 1st of December, V.P Singh proposed the name of Devi Lal as Prime Minister, in spite of the fact that he himself had been clearly projected by the anti-Congress forces as the 'clean' alternative to Rajiv and their Prime Ministerial candidate.
		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/Vishwanath_Pratap_Singh (1289 words)

	The Relevance of V. P. Singh \| by Praful Bidwai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.tni.org /archives/bidwai/singh.htm (1493 words)

	Vishwanath Pratap Singh Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Vishwanath Pratap Singh (born 1931) became India's eighth prime minister on December 2, 1989, heading a minority National Front coalition government that ended a decade of continuous Congress Party rule.
		Singh immediately ordered an investigation, which was criticized by the prime minister, who said he had not been consulted.
		Singh, always putting the plight of the poor before his own, requested that the SPG, in order to save money, no longer provide security for him and his family.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/vishwanath-pratap-singh (1225 words)

	The eternity of return
		And that was sometime ago: Singh as the architect of the social balkanisation of the Hindi heartland.
		Reportedly, Singh's mission is to add a human dimension to a subhuman reality, and he will be assisted in his mission by some political parties with a socialist heart communists, RJD and JD(S).
		Singh, always the consensus man, is the right person to reach out to the socially abandoned as the keeper of social conscience, as the Mahatma-cum-Mandela of the dispossessed.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20000401/ied01045.html (531 words)

	The Hindu : National : Usher in secular Government, says V.P. Singh
		Singh contested the BJP's claim of providing a stable Government, saying that its brand of stability was harmful to the unity and cohesiveness of the country.
		Singh, who is undergoing chemotherapy and dialysis, regretted that he was unable to actively campaign.
		Singh joined issue with the BJP on issues such as the "feel good factor," the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin issue and the possibility of the secular parties coming together after the polls.
	www.hindu.com /2004/05/04/stories/2004050406101100.htm (451 words)

	Chaudhary Ajit Singh - Jatland Wiki
		Ajit Singh plunged into politics in the late eightees and was elected to Rajya Sabha in 1986.
		Singh formed his own faction of the Lok Dal called Lok Dal (Ajit) in 1987 and a year later merged it with the Janata Party of which he became the president.
		Singh won from the Bagpat constituency in 2004 elections.
	www.jatland.com /home/Chaudhary_Ajit_Singh (418 words)

	Ranjit Singh - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ranjit Singh (1780-1839), Indian warrior, who founded the Sikh Kingdom of the Punjab.
		During a period of Sikh persecution, Gobind Singh asked those who were willing to die for their faith to join him.
		Singh, Vishwanath Pratap, born in 1931, Indian politician, born in Uttar Pradesh and educated at the universities of Allahābād and Puna.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Ranjit_Singh.html (83 words)

	Inflation: the silent killer
		Tenure of the governance of Raja of Manda, as Vishwanath Pratap Singh was known, may be very brief but it left a lasting impression on India as Mandal symbolised casteism and Kamandal reflected communalism during the fight between the two anti-Congress forces in the country, that had come together to keep Rajiv Gandhi at bay.
		He was ousted as a result of a civil unrest caused by his pursuance of job reservation, which was strongly opposed by students in universities and colleges for earmarking a huge chunk of jobs based on one’s caste.
		Although it led to the fall of the Singh’s government, the issues’ involved gave birth to a new kind of political environment in the otherwise peaceful India.
	www.dayafterindia.com /dec1/cover_story.html (1408 words)

	lokpriya!
		Singh studied at Varanasi, Allahabad and Pune (Poona) universities and became a member of the Legislative Assembly of his home state of Uttar Pradesh in 1969 as a member of the Congress Party.
		Transferred to the post of minister of defense in January 1987, Singh resigned from Gandhi's Cabinet later that year after his investigations of arms-procurement fraud were squelched.
		After that election, Singh as the leader of the National Front was able to form a coalition government in alliance with two other major opposition parties.
	www.lokpriya.com /personalities/political/present/vpsingh.html (322 words)

	V.P. Singh: Politician, messiah, painter...
		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.whereincity.com /news/16/5845 (758 words)

	DNA - Opinion - Such a long journey - Daily News & Analysis
		Vishwanath Pratap Singh and now Arjun Singh are claiming the mantle for imparting social justice to backward castes through the quota system.
		Few remember this extraordinary gesture by Vishwanath Pratap Singh, then chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and Arjun Singh, then chief minister of neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, as the two leaders sought to mollify the anger and panic among their caste kinsmen.
		In the case of Vishwanath Pratap Singh, it was the emerging political challenge of his deputy Devi Lal that provoked the Mandal reservations.
	www.dnaindia.com /report.asp?NewsID=1023339 (891 words)

	INDOlink - India General News - Manmohan Singh, 66 Other Ministers Sworn In
		Singh has said the main task of his government is to reduce poverty, and continue economic reform.
		With Manmohan Singh becoming the Prime Minister of the India, two decades after country's minority Sikhs were targeted by rioting mobs during a Congress government, the wounds have seemed to have healed between the community and India's grand old party.
		Looking back, Singh says that when he stood up in Parliament stating the case for reforms his argument was that in the midst of an unprecedented crisis, it was time to think big rather than 'tighten the belt.' "We could, in a traditional way, tighten our belt, and we did that, tighten and tighten.
	www.indolink.com /displayArticleS.php?id=052204072528 (2254 words)

	Caste: Still a Key Issue in the Minds of Indian Voters
		A tempest was created by former Prime Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh's decision last year to implement the caste-related recommendations of the Mandal Commission.
		However morally correct, V. Singh plunged into a question that had daunted two of his predecessors as prime minister, the late Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv.
		Supporters of Singh make a good case by asserting that a social program aimed at correcting chronic injustice is destined to be opposed, and inevitably there are people who will try to profit unfairly from it.
	www.wrmea.com /backissues/0791/9107019.htm (1646 words)

	Navhind Times on the Web: Opinions
		Mr Singh’s abiding relevance was reaffirmed when he turned 75 on June 25 and was felicitated by a cross-section of people from different walks of life, including former civil servants, academics and the poorest of slum-dwellers from Delhi.
		As noteworthy as the presence of an impressive spectrum of leaders at Mr 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 Mr Singh headed at the Centre in 1989-90.
		Only Mr Singh’s amazing dedication to the underprivileged can explain why 12 years after he was detected to have a nasty cancer, as well as kidney failure, he continues to be extremely active among groups who are nobody’s constituency.
	www.navhindtimes.com /articles.php?Story_ID=070631 (1223 words)

	V P Singh is working for a Pax Indica between UF and
		Former prime minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh has begun negotiations with Congress and United Front leaders to end their hostilities in order to usher in a post-election patch-up.
		Wasim Ahmed, Singh's associate and Janata Dal Rajya Sabha MP, says the former prime minister's talks with the Congress and UF leaders were meant to ensure that both groups join hands and prevent the BJP from ascending to power at the Centre.
		Singh believes a post-poll arrangement between the Congress and UF will be possible only if they set a common economic and social agenda.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/south_asian_politics/5775 (452 words)

	Singh, Vishwanath Pratap - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Singh, Vishwanath Pratap, 1931-, Indian politician and prime minister (1989-90).
		Inherently unstable, his government was marked by factionalism, and he was forced to resign in 1990.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Singh, Vishwanath Pratap" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-singh-vi.html (181 words)

	V P Singh - Prime Minister of India
		Vishwanath Pratap Singh was born on June 25, 1931 at Allahabad, Shri V.P. Singh is the son of Raja Bahadur Ram Gopal Singh.
		He was the President of the Students Union at Udai Pratap College, Varanasi in 1947-48 and was the Vice-President, Allahabad University Students Union.
		He was ousted when BJP withdrew support to the National Front government after its leader L.K. Advani was arrested during his rath yatra that supported a construction of a Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.
	www.gloriousindia.com /biographies/v_p_singh.html (320 words)

	Examining reservation
		As was the case in 1990, the debate is multi-dimensional and its qualitative aspects range from the constructive to the ludicrous to the sinister.
		To start with, Arjun Singh's statement was perceived as a political exercise aimed at bolstering the chances of the Congress and its allies in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in the Assembly elections to be held in April-May in West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry and Assam.
		Secondly, it was argued that Arjun Singh was initiating something unprecedented in the country's history and that it would work against merit in the education sector and cause great damage to centres of excellence such as the IITs and the IIMs.
	www.frontlineonnet.com /fl2308/stories/20060505004600400.htm (2032 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
		From Subhas Chandra Bose to Mr Vishwanath Pratap Singh to Mr Arun Nehru, nobody was expelled from the party because of his alleged misdemeanours or anti-party activities.
		The dilemma is thus Mr Singh’s and not the party’s.
		From the day charges were levelled against him, Mr Singh has revelled in defying the party to which, at one time, he had declared undying loyalty.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1060809/asp/opinion/story_6584816.asp (409 words)

	Singh, Vishwanath Pratap -
		Pratap was born the son of the King of Daiya in northern India.
		In 1936 his father gave him to the childless ruler of a neighboring state, Ram Gopal Singh of Manda, to be adopted, and he was forbidden contact with his birth family.
		He was well education but tuberculosis marred his childhood, and he was largely brought up by a Scottish couple in the palace.
	famous.adoption.com /famous/singh-vishwanath-pratap.html (356 words)

	The Hindu : Front Page : V. P. Singh's claim laughable: Vajpayee
		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 or suggested to him that some selected leaders should get together on a common political platform.
		Singh was asked what came in the way of BJP leader Jaswant Singh's efforts that Mr.
	www.hindu.com /2006/06/29/stories/2006062913310100.htm (520 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.
	vpsingh.in (196 words)

	The Hindu : Other States / Uttar Pradesh News : A gross injustice to farmers: V.P. Singh (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Singh kicking off the fifth leg of his "Mukti Sangram Yatra'' at Masuri in Ghaziabad.
		Singh said the land belonged to those who toiled on it and the Government had no right to negotiate the land deal on behalf of the landowners.
		Jan Morcha general secretary Vinod Singh and several other workers were present at the meeting.
	www.hindu.com.cob-web.org:8888 /2006/12/08/stories/2006120810490500.htm (346 words)

	Daily Excelsior... Editorial
		King Tsepal Tundup Namgyal (1790-1830) was deposed by Zorawar Singh and forced to leave his nine-storey palace in Leh to the village of Stok where a palace had been built in 1922.
		The Indian electorate has always been a sucker for the act of renunciation, and Singh has been beefing up his resignation act right from the age of 16, when he was a student at Varanasi's UP College.
		But they just picked me up and bundled me off in the car." Singh was not to see his guardian's family until he was in college, when he got their address in Delhi from the invitation card to a wedding in the family.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /web1/06july21/edit.htm (4915 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 747
		Mr Singh's relevance was reaffirmed when he turned 75 on June 25 and was felicitated by a cross-section of people, including the poorest of slum-dwellers.
		As noteworthy as the presence of these leaders at Mr Singh's birthday was the absence of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Samajwadi Party, who were crucial to the formation of Mr Singh's National Front government.
		Mr Singh stands at the centre of India's shift from leader-driver, top-down, manipulative politics, to a politics of plebeian self-assertion.
	www.thedailystar.net /2006/07/04/d607041503142.htm (990 words)

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