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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.
6 days ago · 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.
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,...
Jun 19, 2024 · 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...
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.
May 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.
Nov 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...
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. No wonder, L.K. Advani had remarked: “If there wasn’t a V.P. Singh, we’d have to create one!”.
Nov 8, 1990 · The 11-month-old Government of Prime Minister V. P. Singh collapsed tonight after losing a confidence vote by a wide margin. Mr. Singh, India's seventh Prime Minister, immediately submitted his...
