Buta Singh

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A brief biography

January 3, 2021: The Times of India

Subodh Ghildiyal, January 3, 2021: The Times of India

When Buta Singh last hit the headlines for his controversial 2005 decision to dismiss the shaky Bihar assembly, there was a familiar ring to his action. In the twilight of his long and eventful political career, Congress’s man for all seasons was still doing what he did best.

The Dalit Sikh rose from an impoverished family to occupy the home ministry and also the position of a Congress insider under Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. He quit Congress in the late nineties to become an independent MP and served in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee cabinet. He returned to Congress to serve as Bihar governor.

He did break from Congress in the late nineties to become an independent MP and briefly served as minister under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, but Congress’s doors were always open to him and he returned to later serve as Bihar governor and then as chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes. That was practically the last chapter of his politics.

Singh is best remembered for featuring in two watershed moments in modern Indian history — Ayodhya Shilanyas and Operation Bluestar.

Singh backed Operation Bluestar and was excommunicated by the Akal Takht. In 1989, Singh is said to have played a key role as Rajiv Gandhi decided to allow the ‘shilanyas’ in Ayodhya.