Ahmad Massoud:

Ahmad Massoud has been leading the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan.

He is the man building an anti-Taliban resistance.

About  Ahmad Massoud:

Ahmad Massoud is the son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was one of the main leaders of Afghanistan’s anti-Soviet resistance in the 1980s.

Ahmad Shah Massoud was assassinated on September 9, 2001, at the behest of the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

Ahmad Massoud has been leading the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan and is gathering mujahideen fighters in the Panjshir Valley who are prepared to once again take on the Taliban.

Note: The Panjshir Valley is Afghanistan’s last remaining holdout where anti-Taliban forces seem to be working on forming a guerrilla movement to take on the fundamentalist group.

Kalyan Singh

 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.