It is ironical in a way that VP Singh – who hailed from a royal family – always had power within his reach but when he actually laid his hands on it, it drifted away from him. That happened partly because of his fickle-mindedness and partly because of his zeal to take up the cause of the poor and downtrodden. One such example comes from very early period of his life when impressed with Vinoba Bhave’s Bhoodan Movement, he donated his entire inheritance in land. He had to bear the ire of his family.
He started his political career as a young socialist under Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna but defected to the Congress with Chandra Shekhar. During the Emergency, he supported Indira wholeheartedly. He was made UPCC chief and later Chief Minister of the state. But when the time came to enjoy power, he had a tiff with the PM over the Moradabad riots. Indira blamed the state government. VP thought otherwise. He resigned and announced it through a radio journalist from Allahabad, in true VP style.
He earned the trust of Rajiv Gandhi but took on the latter’s friends, Amitabh Bachchan and Dhirubhai Ambani. Rajiv removed him from the post of Finance Minister. A peeved VP dropped the Bofors bombshell. He switched allegiance once again and was made Prime Minister by Jan Morcha. Here, too, he carried on with his rebellion. He revived the dormant Mandal Commission report and implemented its recommendations. People still remember him for this final act of his, but he was a bigger rebel than he is perceived to be.
He started his political career as a young socialist under Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna but defected to the Congress with Chandra Shekhar. During the Emergency, he supported Indira wholeheartedly. He was made UPCC chief and later Chief Minister of the state. But when the time came to enjoy power, he had a tiff with the PM over the Moradabad riots. Indira blamed the state government. VP thought otherwise. He resigned and announced it through a radio journalist from Allahabad, in true VP style.
He earned the trust of Rajiv Gandhi but took on the latter’s friends, Amitabh Bachchan and Dhirubhai Ambani. Rajiv removed him from the post of Finance Minister. A peeved VP dropped the Bofors bombshell. He switched allegiance once again and was made Prime Minister by Jan Morcha. Here, too, he carried on with his rebellion. He revived the dormant Mandal Commission report and implemented its recommendations. People still remember him for this final act of his, but he was a bigger rebel than he is perceived to be.
industrial houses – the Tatas, Reliance, Bharti – to make colossal investments in the state. Bharti chief, Sunil Mittal who is famous for transforming the telephone landscape in India by introducing mobile phones, now wants to bring about Punjab’s ‘second’ agricultural Punjab farmers will be growing the fruit, vegetables and herbs that will be sold in retail outlets all over the country.
Yes, your dream house, dream car, dream travel plan and so many other dreams (definitely, those supposed to be funded by bank loans) have just been hammered to pieces by the bankers. Wondering how? Well, just try to avail a loan today, and you get to know everything. The prevailing loan situation is worth pondering over - loans are becoming dearer day by day, with banks adopting stringent norms and tightening all loopholes. After all they also don’t like to risk their money, when the whole world is going gaga under the financial crisis and liquidity crunch.
marketing scene in early 2006 and since then it’s been a roller coaster ride for marketers. In the early days most marketers correctly realised the potential of this medium to immerse their audiences in to the brand narrative but could not implement or create an effective virtual marketing campaign.