V. P. Singh
Vishwanath Pratap Singh (25 June 1931 – 27 November 2008), shortened to V. P. Singh, was an Indian politician and the Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990 and the 41st Raja Bahadur of Manda.He was educated at Allahabad University and Fergusson College in Pune. In 1969, he joined the Indian National Congress party and was elected as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
In the Rajiv Gandhi ministry, Singh was given various cabinet posts, including Minister of Finance and Minister of Defence. Singh was also the Leader of the Rajya Sabha from 1984 to 1987. During his tenure as Minister of Defence, the Bofors scandal came to light, and Singh resigned from the ministry. In 1988, he formed the Janata Dal party by merging various factions of the Janata Party. In the 1989 elections, the National Front, with the support of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), formed the government and Singh became the 7th Prime Minister of India.
During his tenure as prime minister, he implemented the Mandal Commission report for India's backward castes, which led to major protests against the act. He also created the Sixty-second Amendment and enacted the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Act in 1989. During his term the kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed happened and on the ground the terrorists were released. In 1990 the infamous exodus of Kashmiri Hindus happened from the valley of Kashmir. Following his opposition to the Ram Rath Yatra, the BJP withdrew its support for the National Front, and his government lost the vote of no-confidence. Singh resigned on 7 November 1990. His prime ministerial tenure lasted for 343 days.
Singh was the prime ministerial candidate for the National Front in the 1991 elections, but was defeated. He turned down Prime Ministership after the 1996 Indian general election even through he was the first choice and relinquished the prime ministership to Deve Gowda. He spoke out against the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992. After 1996, Singh retired from political posts, but continued to remain a public figure and political critic. He was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1998, and ceased public appearances until the cancer went into remission in 2003. However, he died from complications of multiple myeloma and kidney failure in 2008. He was buried with full state honours. Provided by Wikipedia
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Rediscovering Robert E. Horton's lake evaporation formulae: new directions for evaporation physics by S. Vimal, V. P. Singh, V. P. Singh
Published 2022-01-01
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Comparison between canonical vine copulas and a meta-Gaussian model for forecasting agricultural drought over China by H. Wu, H. Wu, X. Su, X. Su, V. P. Singh, V. P. Singh, V. P. Singh, T. Zhang, J. Qi, S. Huang
Published 2022-07-01
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Effect of climatic changes on the prevalence of zoonotic diseases by Neelam Sachan and V.P.Singh
Published 2010-01-01
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Hydrologic system complexity and nonlinear dynamic concepts for a catchment classification framework by B. Sivakumar, V. P. Singh
Published 2012-11-01
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Effect of Groundwater Pumping on Seawater Intrusion in Coastal Aquifers by M.M. Sherif, V.P. Singh
Published 2002-06-01
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Study on Outer Membrane Protein (OMP) Profile of Aeromonas Strains using SDS- PAGE by N Sachan, R K Agarwal, V P Singh
Published 2012-06-01
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Design water demand of irrigation for a large region using a high-dimensional Gaussian copula by X. Tu, X. Tu, Y. Du, V. P. Singh, V. P. Singh, X. Chen, X. Chen, K. Lin, H. Wu
Published 2018-10-01
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Reaction Curve-Assisted Rule-Based PID Control Design for Islanded Microgrid by T. K. Bashishtha, V. P. Singh, U. K. Yadav, T. Varshney
Published 2024-02-01
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Dynamic Analysis of Shear Flows over a Porous Medium in a Cylindrical Tube by J. P. Dwivedi, V. P. Singh, Radha Krishna Lal
Published 2013-01-01
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Effects of upper body resistance training on pulmonary functions in sedentary male smokers by V P Singh, H Jani, V John, P Singh, T Joseley
Published 2011-01-01
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Scale model for the confluent area of debris flow and main river: a case study of the Wenjia Gully by J. Zhang, Z. X. Guo, S. Y. Cao, V. P. Singh
Published 2013-12-01
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Imaging for central venous cannulation: A necessity rather than luxury by Manish Jain, Bhavana Rastogi, Y P Singh, V P Singh
Published 2011-01-01
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Model Order Diminution of Discrete Interval Systems Using Kharitonov Polynomials by V. P. Meena, U. K. Yadav, V. P. Singh, Baseem Khan
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