Karan Singh

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Karan Singh (born 9 March 1931) is an Indian politician, philanthropist, and poet.

He is a member of the Dogra dynasty and the son of Maharaja Hari Singh.

He was a member of India's Upper House of Parliament, the Rajya Sabha, who represents the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

He was a senior member of the Indian National Congress Party who served as President (Sadr-i-Riyasat) and Governor of Jammu and Kashmir successively as President (Sadr-i-Riyasat).

Singh is the son of the late princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, Maharaja Hari Singh.

The Government of India, of which Karan Singh was a Union cabinet minister, banned all official symbols of princely India, including titles, privileges, and compensation (privy purses), in the 26th amendment to the Constitution of India, which was promulgated in 1971.

He served as India's ambassador to the United States after the Cold War ended.

Singh was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2005.

Bhim Singh had been drafted for candidature in the Indian presidential election in July 2017.

Early and personal life

Yuvraj Karan Singh was born in Cannes, France, into the Dogra dynasty. He was Sir Hari Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, and was the only son of the prince. Maharani Tara Devi, the fourth wife of his father's, was born in (Vijaypur) in the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh and came from (Vijaypur, near Bilaspur).

Singh was educated at Doon School, Dehra Dun, a boarding school, in a departure from the traditional practice of princes being taught by tutors at home. The academy was very wealthy, but Karan Singh shared the classroom (but not the hostel) with boys from non-royal backgrounds and received a standard education. He then enrolled in a college for a graduate degree, receiving first a B.A. A degree from Jammu and Kashmir University, Srinagar, was awarded, later as an M.A. University of Delhi students have a degree in Political Science and a PhD degree.

The couple had three children:

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Political career

Singh was appointed Prince Regent of Jammu and Kashmir state in 1949, at the age of eighteen. Following the state's accession to India, his father resigned as the king. He served as regent, i-Riyasat, and the first governor of Jammu and Kashmir from 1965 to 1967.

On August 8, 1953, when Khamu and Kashmir's President (Sadr-i-Riyasat) was deposed, Karan Singh supported a coup d'etat against Sheikh Abdullah, who was detained for ten years following the Kashmir Conspiracy case.

He resigned as Governor of Jammu and Kashmir in 1967 and became the youngest-ever member of the Union Cabinet, with the Tourism and Civil Aviation portfolios spanning 1967 to 1973. He voluntarily gave up his privy purse, which he had been entitled to since his father's death in 1961. Following his parents' wishes, he turned the entire sum into a charitable trust named after him.

The Government of India, of which Karan Singh was a Union cabinet minister, abolished all official symbols of princely India, including titles, privileges, and remuneration (privy purses), in the 26th amendment to the Constitution of India, which was promulgated in 1971. He was India's ambassador to the United States during the Cold War. In 2005, Singh received the Padma Vibhushan.

He was sent as an envoy to the Eastern Bloc countries in 1971 to explain India's position with respect to East Pakistan, and then launched a civil war against West Pakistan. He tried to resign after an aircraft fire in 1973, but his resignation was not accepted. He became the Minister of Health and Family Planning in the same year as the previous one.

Following the Emergency, Karan Singh was elected to the Lok Sabha from Udhampur in 1977 on a congress ticket [the party did not split into Congress (I) and Congress (U) factions until then] and became Minister of Education and Culture in 1979, which had broken away from Indira's Congress. Charan Singh was appointed Prime Minister after the fall of the Janata Party government led by Morarji Desai. And Charan Singh himself resigned without going to Parliament for a day as he was not sure of getting a confidence motion passed in his favour. Karan Singh won the 1980 Lok Sabha election on a Congress(U) ticket and gained. He served as India's ambassador to the United States from 1989 to 1990, and his experience became the subject of a book he wrote called "Brief Sojourn."

Karan Singh served in the Lok Sabha from 1967 to 1984. In 1984, he ran for Lok Sabha as an outsider from Jammu, but lost the election. He served with the Rajya Sabha from 30 November 1996 to October 1999, representing the National Conference, a Muslim-dominated group active in Jammu and Kashmir. He served as a Rajya Sabha member from 28 January 2000 to the first of January 2018 representing INC. He is well-known for switching from one political party to another quickly. He has been Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University, Jammu and Kashmir University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Northern Ireland's National Institute for Technical Education.

He has appeared on various TV channels, including Bibek Debroy, Amitabh Kant, Shashi Tharoor, Hemant Batra, Maroof Raza, and Sanjeev Sanyal, as a Guest Anchor.

Academic career

Karan Singh was the chancellor of Banaras Hindu University for three terms from 2018 to 2018. He granted an honorary doctorate to then prime minister Manmohan Singh in 2008, and Prime Minister Modi declined in 2016 after the university administration demanded an honorary doctorate to prime minister Modi.

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