Buta Singh was an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. He was the Union Home Minister of India, Governor of Bihar and was chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes from 2007 to 2010. He died in New Delhi from complications of a stroke on 2 January 2021, at age 86.
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Buta Singh was an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. He was the Union Home Minister of India, Governor of Bihar and was chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes from 2007 to 2010. He died in New Delhi from complications of a stroke on 2 January 2021, at age 86. His name was also in the finalists for the post of President of India along with Giani Zail Singh in the Indira era.
He contested 2014 Lok Sabha election from Jalore as an independent, backed by Samajwadi Party, but he came third. In 1998, as Communications Minister he was indicted in the JMM bribery case, and forced to resign. His decision to recommend dissolution of the Bihar Assembly in 2005 was sharply criticised by the Supreme Court of India.
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