Sahib Singh Verma
Indian politician (1943-2007)
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Sahib Singh Verma (15 March 1943 – 30 June 2007)[citation needed] was an Indian politician.[1] He served as the 4th Chief Minister of Delhi (1996–1998) and Union Labour Minister of India from 2002 to 2004. He was a member of 13th Lok Sabha, Parliament of India (1999–2004).[2][3]
Sahib Singh Verma | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Verma in December 2003 | |
| Union Minister of Labour and Employment | |
| In office 1 July 2002 – 22 May 2004 | |
| Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| Preceded by | Sharad Yadav |
| Succeeded by | Shish Ram Ola |
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| In office 6 October 1999 – 13 May 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Krishan Lal Sharma |
| Succeeded by | Sajjan Kumar |
| Constituency | Outer Delhi, Delhi |
| 4th Chief Minister of Delhi | |
| In office 27 February 1996 – 12 October 1998 | |
| Lieutenant Governor | Tejendra Khanna Vijai Kapoor |
| Preceded by | Madan Lal Khurana |
| Succeeded by | Sushma Swaraj |
| Cabinet Minister, Government of Delhi | |
| In office 2 December 1993 – 26 February 1996 | |
| Chief Minister | Madan Lal Khurana |
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| Member of Delhi Legislative Assembly | |
| In office November 1993 – November 1998 | |
| Preceded by | constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Ravinder Nath Bansal |
| Constituency | Shalimar Bagh |
| Councillor of Delhi Metropolitan Council | |
| In office 1977–1990 | |
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| Born | 15 March 1943 |
| Died | 30 June 2007 (aged 64) Jonaicha Khurd, Rajasthan, India |
| Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
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Sahib Kaur (m. 1954) |
| Children | 5 (including Parvesh Verma and Siddharth Verma) |
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Life
Sahib Singh Verma was born on 15 March 1943 in Mundka village of Delhi to Chaudhary Mir Singh Lakra, a zamindar, and Bharpai Devi in a Jat family.[4][5] He had 2 brothers Azad Singh Verma and Attar Singh Verma. He was influenced by Arya Samaj from an early age.[citation needed]
Singh had a PhD degree in Library Science, and started work as librarian in Bhagat Singh College, Delhi.[6] He held a master's degree in Arts, (M.A.) and also in Library Science from Aligarh Muslim University.[7]
He was married to Sahib Kaur and had two sons and three daughters. One of his sons, Parvesh Verma is serving as Member of Delhi Legislative Assembly from New Delhi.[8][9]
Political career
He was active in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.[10] He had also served the World Jat Aryan Foundation, as its president.[11]
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In 1977 he was elected to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and took the Oath as a Councillor by the hands of Guru Radha Kishan. Initially he won as a Janata Party candidate and was re-elected on a BJP ticket. He became the Education and Development Minister in the Delhi government in 1993.[12]
In 1996, after Madan Lal Khurana was embroiled in a corruption crisis, Sahib Singh became the Chief Minister of Delhi.[13] Singh served as CM for two and a half years, facing increasing rivalry from Khurana.[14] Following an onion price crisis, he was replaced by Sushma Swaraj.
Subsequently, he won the Lok Sabha elections, 1999 from Outer Delhi with a margin of over two lakh votes.[10] In 2002, he became Minister of Labour in the Vajpayee government, and was known as "bull in a China shop" for standing up against the bureaucrats against lowering the Provident Fund interest rate.[14] He was defeated in the 2004 polls.
He died in a road accident in Rajasthan in 2007 when the car he was travelling in had a head-on collision with a truck.[15]