Being Prime Minister of India - V P SINGH & CHANDRA SHEKHAR
V. P. Singh
Tenure: - 2 December 1989 To 10 November 1990. 343
Days
Party: - JANATA DAL
Family and Political
Background:-
Vishwanath Pratap Singh was born on 25 June 1931 in
the Rajput Zamindar family. This family was ruling the kingdom of Manda. He was
educated from Dehradun and studied at Allahabad and Pune Universities also.
In Rajiv Gandhi he was appointed as Minister of
Finance in 1984 first and Minister of Defence in January 1987. He resigned from
Rajiv Gandhi’s cabinet, Government and even from his party Congress (I) after
he found fraud in procurement of Bofors.
He formed Janata Dal (JD) merging Jan Morcha, Lok
Dal and Congress (S). He fought election
against Rajiv Gandhi in coalition with two other major parties. This coalition
was recognised as National Front. He became Prime Minister of India on 1989.
Work Performance:-
V P Singh was the first Prime Minster who has been
elected for only one Main agenda – Corruption.
But after being a Prime Minister he didn’t do
anything further on corruption. He did not do anything to take the Bofors scandal also
for which He was become a national Hero and Prime Minister.
His achievement was controversial step that is
implementation of Mandal Commission suggestions.
Miss:-
During V P Singh’s tenure India
has felt undoubtedly downfalls in every sector. During this time, economy
worsened, Prices hiked abnormally, Foreign exchange reserve went to a
dangerous level and India joined the list of 'debt defaulters'.
In Kashmir, the situation more worsened. Nearly 90,000 Hindus
Kashmiri Pandits were forced to leave their houses of valley and they became
refugees in their own land by migrating to other places of India. This is
the greatest refugee migration in Indian history. Till date Kashmiri Pandits
are leaving as refugee with poor conditions.
Former, Indira Gandhi has played a communal card to create Vote Bank,
she has divided India in Hindu-Muslim and V P Singh further divided India in
Castes by implementing Mandal Commission report to create Vote Bank and to earn
his name as Social Justice. V P Singh suddenly wanted to consolidate 'backward
class vote base' in his favour. On 7th August 1990, he issued orders
implementing Mandal Commission Report. This is the worst chapter of Indian Politics;
it has divided Indian people in many pieces.
During Janata Government Morarji Desai appointed a Commission with Mr B
P Mandal (a senior MP from Bihar) as Chairman and 5 others as Members on 20th
December 1978, to recommend reservations for most backward class people.
The Commission submitted its report on 31st December 1980 to then Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi. Accordingly to Mandal commission, some of the socially
backward castes called 'Other Backward classes (OBC)' were given 27%
reservation in all the Central Government jobs and admissions in educational institutions. This
report was not implemented both by Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi for various
political reasons, fearing backlash but V P Singh opened it and implemented it.
For the first time, in India, caste politics emerged in a large scale.
In protest nearly 75 students in the North self immolated themselves, more than
200 people died.
V P Singh government fall down after BJP withdrawn support in return of
arrestment of L K Advani who was marching toward Ayodhya with his so called
Rath Yatra.
Chandra Shekhar Singh
Tenure:-10 November 1990 To 21 June 1991. 223 Days.
Party: - SAMAJWADI JANATA PARTY.
Family and Political
Background:-
Chandra Shekhar Singh was
born on 1 July 1927 in Ibrahimpatti Village of Ballia District, U.P. He was graduate
and having master degree in political science from Allahabad University.
Chandra Shekhar was the
member of Rajya Sabha from 1962 to 1967. During the Emergency imposed by Indira
Gandhi, even though he was politician of Congress, he was arrested. He entered
the Lok Sabha in 1967. In 1977 after the emergency, he became the President of
Janata Party. Janata Party formed the
coalition government and Morarji Desai became Prime Minister. Again in 1988 he
merged his party with other parties and formed another coalition government and
this time V P Singh became Prime Minister demolishing Chandra Shekhar’s Chance.
Again his relation in
coalition deteriorated, he formed one more Party – Samajwadi Janata Party and
with support of Rajiv Gandhi Congress having 185 seats, in spite of having just
64 MPs, he became Prime Minister of India.
Work
Performance:-
His government could not
even get a chance to introduce a full budget. So, no fruitful government was.
Miss:
- Just
Time
Rajiv Gandhi withdraws
support just after 223 days and Chandra Shekhar has to resign n 6 March 1991.
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