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- Singh becomes the 7th Prime Minister of India, after the loss of Rajiv Gandhi in the 1989 Indian general election.
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In 1996, the Congress party lost the general elections and Singh was the natural choice of the winning United Front (Singh was one of the forces behind the broad United Front coalition) for the post of Prime Minister.
2 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 (born June 25, 1931, Allahabad, India—died November 27, 2008, New Delhi) was a politician and government official who was prime minister of India in 1989–90. Singh studied at 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 Indian ...
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After Janata Dal leader V. P. Singh refused to become prime minister for a second time, CPI(M) leader & incumbent West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu was approached by the National Front to be its prime ministerial face, but the party politburo refused to endorse it (a decision which Basu later criticised as a "historic blunder") in order to ...
PartyPartyVotes%96,455,49328.8014067,950,85120.2916127,070,3408.084620,496,8106.1232Premiership 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 ...
May 23, 2024 · How India got three prime ministers in two years, following 1996 election. After the BJP made history by emerging as the largest party in Lok Sabha, Atal Bihari Vajpayee became Prime Minister. But his government lasted only 13 days, and was followed by a coalition of 13 parties. Read more in part 11 of our series on the history of India's Lok ...
He was the Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) in July 16, 1983; on September 1, 1984 he was elected President, Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee and on December 31, 1984 he became the Union Finance Minister.
