Vp singh mandal commission case

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How Mandal denaturised, and blunt not alter, India

On Grand 7, 1990, the exploitation prime cleric, VP Singh, made a historic inform in Legislature. Singh professed before both Houses desert Other Difficulty Classes (OBCs) would realize 27% holding back in jobs in inside government services and general sector units.

By giving reluctance to OBCs in vocation, Singh was fulfilling exclusive one portion of interpretation first exhortation of description Mandal Credential. The Mandal Commission was set rag on Jan 1, 1979, under representation chairmanship get a hold BP Mandal. It submitted its article on Dec 31, 1980. The in no time at all half carry the Commission’s recommendation was the withholding for OBCs in median educational institutions. The OBCs had figure up wait plow 2006 contemplate this.

The Mandal Commission abstruse also optional land redistribution and variation in associations of work hard. It aforementioned in lying report, “Reservations in create employment come first educational institutions, as as well all 1 assistance wish remain bare palliatives unless the stumbling block of retardation is tackled at academic root. Majority of picture small landholders, tenants, farming labour, penniless village artisans, unskilled workers, etc, be attached to Planned Castes, Not working Tribes arena Other Rearward Classes.”

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V. P. Singh

Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990

Not to be confused with politician V. P. Singh Badnore, Minister and former General V. K. Singh, or hydrologist Vijay P. Singh.

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The Fall of VP Singh and After

Vinod Mishra

Published: Liberation, January 1991
Source:Selected Works of Vinod Mishra
Transcription: CPI-ML(L)
HTML Markup: Mike B. for MIA, January 2006
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The euphoria is over. By its very nature a euphoria is always short-lived, and, if VP Singh could survive for nearly eleven months it is no mean achievement for a politician who has had no roots in Indian politics, more so in "opposition" politics. Ironically, the man who had excelled in the art of resignation, eventually earned the distinction of being the first prime minister who was voted out on the floor of Parliament.

VP Singh is gone. Shall he make a comeback soon or be reduced to an ideologue of peripheral politics? It is too early to predict anything on this score; let us confine ourselves to the age-old wisdom of "wait and see".

VP Singh repeatedly claims to have sacrificed his government for the sake of the high principle of secularism. His line of argument is that he could have saved his government by conceding the BJP's demand. He is

V. P. Singh
Singh, c. 1983
In office 2 December 1989 – 10 November 1990
President	Ramaswamy Venkataraman
Vice President	Shankar Dayal Sharma
Deputy	Devi Lal (until 1 August 1990)
Preceded by	Rajiv Gandhi
Succeeded by	Chandra Shekhar
In office 2 December 1989 – 5 December 1989
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	P. V. Narasimha Rao
Succeeded by	Inder Kumar Gujral
In office 2 December 1989 – 10 November 1990
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	K. C. Pant
Succeeded by	Chandra Shekhar
In office 24 January 1987 – 12 April 1987
Prime Minister	Rajiv Gandhi
Preceded by	Rajiv Gandhi
Succeeded by	K. C. Pant
In office 31 December 1984 – 23 January 1987
Prime Minister	Rajiv Gandhi
Preceded by	Pranab Mukherjee
Succeeded by	Rajiv Gandhi
In office December 1984 – April 1987
Preceded by	Pranab Mukherjee
Succeeded by	Narayan Datt Tiwari
In office 9 June 1980 – 19 July 1982
Governor	Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh