Person the News September 2021
Kalyan Singh:
Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Kalyan Singh passed away on August 22, 2021 after a prolonged illness at the age of 89.
Key Points:
He was one of the most prominent BJP leaders who helped shape rise of the Ram Temple movement.
He was the UP chief minister when the Babri mosque was demolished by a mob in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992.
He had resigned from the post after the demolition.
More about Kalyan Singh :
Kalyan Singh (1932 – 2021) , a Hindutva icon and a Bharatiya Janata Party veteran had served as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh twice from June 1991 – December 1992 and then from September 1997 – November 1999.
Born on January 5, 1932, Kalyan Singh first became an MLA in 1967.
He had been a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh while he was still in school.
He had also served as the Member of Parliament for Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014 from Etah constituency in Uttar Pradesh.
He then served as the Governor of Himachal Pradesh from January 2015 till August 2015.
He was later appointed as the 21st Governor of Rajasthan from September 2014 till September 2019.
He then again served for the second term as Chief Minister in 1997 but was removed in 1999.
He won nine more elections from the constituency as a representative of Bharatiya Jana Sangh, BJP, Janata Party and the Rashtriya Kranti Party.
