46 Facts About Kalyan Singh

Kalyan Singh was an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Kalyan Singh served twice as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and as a Member of Parliament.

Kalyan Singh was the Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh during the demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992.

Kalyan Singh was a prominent figure within Hindu nationalism, and in the agitation to build a Ram temple in Ayodhya.

Kalyan Singh entered the Uttar Pradesh legislature as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Atrauli in 1967.

Kalyan Singh won nine more elections to that constituency as a member of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the BJP, the Janata Party and the Rashtriya Kranti Party.

Kalyan Singh was appointed Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for the first time in 1991, but resigned following the demolition of the Babri Masjid.

Kalyan Singh became Chief Minister for a second term in 1997, but was removed by his party in 1999, and left the BJP, forming his own party.

Kalyan Singh re-entered the BJP in 2004, and was elected a Member of Parliament from Bulandshahar.

Kalyan Singh left the BJP for a second time in 2009, and successfully contested the 2009 Indian general election as an independent from Etah.

Kalyan Singh joined the BJP again in 2014, and was appointed Governor of Rajasthan.

Kalyan Singh served a five-year term, and re-entered active politics in 2019.

Kalyan Singh was acquitted by a special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation in 2020.

Kalyan Singh died on 21 August 2021 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

Kalyan Singh was posthumously awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award.

Kalyan Singh was born in Aligarh district in the United Provinces in 1932.

Kalyan Singh was a swayamsevak, or volunteer, of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, becoming a member while still in school.

Kalyan Singh contested elections to the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly from the Atrauli assembly constituency for the first time in 1967 as a candidate of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and defeated his Indian National Congress opponent by 4351 votes.

Kalyan Singh contested each of the following ten legislative assembly elections from the same constituency, in 1969,1974,1977,1980,1985,1989,1991,1993,1996, and 2002.

Kalyan Singh won nine of these races, the exception coming in 1980, when he was defeated by Anwar Khan of the INC.

Kalyan Singh gradually rose through the ranks of the Uttar Pradesh BJP.

Kalyan Singh was made a state-level general secretary in 1980, elected state party president in 1984, and re-elected to the same post three years later.

The BJP made large gains in the parliamentary and legislative elections that followed in 1991, and was able to form a government in Uttar Pradesh, with Kalyan Singh becoming the Chief Minister for the first time in June 1991.

The Kalyan Singh government removed Baba Lal Das, the Hindu priest who headed the temple that existed within the Babri Masjid complex, in March 1992.

Kalyan Singh had previously given the Indian Supreme court an affidavit, in which he promised that no harm would come to the Babri Masjid.

Kalyan Singh contested the elections from two constituencies, Atrauli and Kasganj, and won both.

Kalyan Singh became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for the second time in September 1997, taking the post over from Mayawati as part of their power-sharing agreement.

Kalyan Singh continued in office with the support of a breakaway faction of the BSP, and a breakaway faction of the INC, led by INC MLA Naresh Agrawal, the Akhil Bharatiya Loktantrik Congress.

Kalyan Singh's administration ended many of the BSP's Dalit-focused programmes soon after taking office.

On 21 February 1998, Kalyan Singh's government was dismissed by the Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Romesh Bhandari, after Agrawal withdrew support to Kalyan Singh's government.

Kalyan Singh contested and won the 2002 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections as a candidate of the RKP.

Kalyan Singh returned to the BJP in January 2004, and was made head of the party's state-level election committee for the 2004 Indian general election.

Kalyan Singh successfully contested the election from the Bulandshahar Lok Sabha Constituency.

Kalyan Singh resigned his party membership and his post of national Vice President on 20 January 2009, citing "neglect and humiliation" in the BJP.

Kalyan Singh was elected to the Lok Sabha from Etah as an independent.

Kalyan Singh rejoined the BJP for the second time in March 2014, resigning his seat in the Lok Sabha to do so.

Kalyan Singh was appointed Governor of Rajasthan in 2014, and was sworn in on 4 September.

Kalyan Singh was given the position of Governor of Himachal Pradesh as an additional charge in January 2015, and relinquished it in August of the same year.

Kalyan Singh was succeeded by Kalraj Mishra in 2019 after he completed his five-year term.

Kalyan Singh returned to active politics with the BJP, which hoped he could bring in support from those who supported a Hindutva agenda.

Kalyan Singh is considered a prominent figure within Hindu nationalism, and in the agitation to build a Ram temple in Ayodhya.

Kalyan Singh was brought to trial in September 2019 after completing his term, was ordered to be placed in judicial custody, and was then granted bail.

Kalyan Singh was taken ill on 3 July 2021, after he complained of nausea and difficulty in breathing.

Kalyan Singh was admitted to Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, where the doctors suspected renal issues.

Kalyan Singh died at the age of 89 on 21 August 2021 at the SGPGI, suffering from sepsis and multi-organ failures.

Kalyan Singh was posthumously awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award, in January 2022.