Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin unveiled a statue of former Prime Minister VP Singh . The move has sparked off a political buzz too.
A life-sized statue of Singh has been installed on the Presidency College premises in In Chennai.
#WATCH | Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin, in the presence of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, unveils the statue of former PM VP Singh on the premises of Presidency College in Chennai
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Stalin unveiled the statue of the late Singh along with Samajwadi Party leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav.
Later, Stalin, Yadav and others paid floral tributes to a portrait of Singh.
Stalin had in April announced that the Tamil Nadu government would install a statue for Singh, then recalling that the former PM had implemented the 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes in Central government jobs based on the recommendation of the B P Mandal Commission .
V P Singh for the record, was the 7th Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990 and lasted for 343 days. During his tenure as prime minister, he implemented the Mandal Commission report for India’s backward castes, which led to major protests against the act. He also created the Sixty-second Amendment and enacted the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Act in 1989.
