Punjab’s veteran congress leader admitted to AIIMS after brain hemorrhage
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in/ Chandigarh
Former Union Home Minister and senior Congress leader Buta Singh (86) was today rushed to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) following brain Hemorrhage.
Buta Singh, a Dalit Stalwart also served as Governor of Bihar, West Bengal and former Chairman of National Commission for Schedule Castes, he is undergoing surgery at AIIMS and his situation is highly critical.
Buta Singh was born on 21 March 1934 in Mazhabi Sikh family at Mustafapur, Jalandhar district, Punjab. He was educated at Lyallpur Khalsa College in Jalandhar, from where he was awarded a B.A. (Hons), and at Guru Nanak Khalsa College in Bombay, where he earned a M.A. Singh then gained a Ph.D. from Bundelkhand University. He married Manjit Kaur in 1964; the couple had three children.
He worked as journalist before joining politics. He fought his first elections as an Akali Dal member and joined the Indian National Congress in the late 1960s at the time when that party was split.
Punjab’s veteran congress leader admitted to AIIMS after brain hemorrhage. Buta Singh, 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 2007–2010.
October 26,2020
