Buta Singh was an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress.
18 Facts About Buta Singh
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Buta Singh was the Union Home Minister of India, Governor of Bihar and was chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes from 2007 to 2010.
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Buta Singh was born on 21 March 1934 in Mazhabi Sikh family at Mustafapur, Jalandhar district, Punjab, British India.
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Buta Singh married Manjit Kaur in 1964; the couple had three children.
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Buta Singh fought his first elections as an Akali Dal member and joined the Indian National Congress in the late 1960s at the time when that party was split.
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Buta Singh was elected to the 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 12th and 13th Lok Sabhas.
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Buta Singh was involved with the Congress Party since Jawaharlal Nehru was Prime Minister and he was close to former Indian prime ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.
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Buta Singh switched to Ropar constituency in 1967, this time as a Congress candidate, and was elected from there to Lok Sabha a couple of times.
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Buta Singh became General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee General Secretary, Home Minister of India and later Governor of Bihar.
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Buta Singh was chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes from 2007 to 2010.
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Buta Singh was very closely involved with her in Operation Blue Star and as a minister he oversaw reconstruction of the Golden Temple following that exercise.
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Buta Singh's name was in the finalists for the post of President of India along with Giani Zail Singh in the Indira era.
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Buta Singh was the chairperson of Asian Games organizing committee when the competition was held in India in 1982.
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Buta Singh contested 2014 Lok Sabha election from Jalore as an independent, backed by Samajwadi Party, but he came third.
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The court ruled that Buta Singh had acted in haste and misled the federal cabinet because he did not want a particular party claiming to form the government, to come to power.
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Buta Singh claimed that the party was resorting to unfair means to secure support to form the government.
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On 26 January 2006 Buta Singh sent a fax to Abdul Kalam offering to resign his post.
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Buta Singh died in New Delhi from complications of a cerebral haemorrhage on 2 January 2021, at age 86.