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The Vice President of India, Shri Bhairon Singh Shekhawat looking at painting works by the former Prime Minister Shri V. P. Singh, after inaugurating the exhibition, in New Delhi on 14 February 2006 In 1992, Singh was the first to propose the name of the future President KR Narayanan as a (eventually successful) candidate for vice president ...
Witnessing V P Singh's meteoric rise on the national stage, Rajiv tried to counter him with another prominent Rajput stalwart Satyendra Narain Singh but failed eventually. [3] Singh, who was the head of the Janata Dal, was chosen leader of the National Front government. [4] And on 26 November he sworn the position.
V. P. Singh, who was the head of the Janata Dal, was chosen leader of the National Front government with outside support of the BJP & CPI(M). [8] The alliance broke down after Singh supported Bihar's Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav 's step to arrest Advani in Samastipur to stop his Ram Rath Yatra , which was going to the Babri Masjid site in ...
The 1989 Indian general election in Delhi was held to elect representatives of the 7 seats of the NCT of Delhi in the Lok Sabha. The Bharatiya Janata Party won 4 of the 7 seats in Delhi, with its opposition, the Indian National Congress winning 2 seats, and the Janata Dal at third place with one seat. Although the BJP won most of the seats, the ...
The Election Commission of India was a single member body till 1989 when two election commissioners were appointed to aid the chief election commissioner. [4] While the office has always been an important one in the machinery of the Indian political process, it gained significant public attention during the tenure of T.N. Seshan , from 1990 to ...
In 1950, the Election Commission of India was established as a single member body. As per The Election Commissioner Amendment Act, 1989, the commission was made a multi-member body headed by a chief election commissioner and two other election commissioners, who were appointed to the commission for the first time on 16 October 1989. On 1 ...
While the Mandal Commission report released by the VP Singh government suggested giving 27 per cent reservation to the Other Backward Castes (OBCs) in government jobs, it led to widespread violence and protests across the country with many students from the Forward Caste groups in and around the capital city of Delhi even setting themselves on fire in opposition to increase in reservations.
Manmohan Singh: 2009: Fifteenth: 58.21% Indian National Congress: 206 –66 37.80% 262 Manmohan Singh 2014: Sixteenth: 66.44% Bharatiya Janata Party: 282 10 51.74% 336 Narendra Modi: 2019: Seventeenth: 67.40% Bharatiya Janata Party: 303 31 55.80% 353 Narendra Modi 2024: Eighteenth: 66.33% Bharatiya Janata Party: 240 -32 44.19% 293 Narendra Modi