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{{short description|Indian politician (b. 1922, d. 1999)}}<br />
{{Infobox officeholder<br />
|name=Krishna Pal Singh<br />
|image =<br />
|order= 14th<br />
|office= Governor of Gujarat<br />
|term_start= 1 March 1996<br />
|term_end= 24 April 1998<br />
| office2 = [[Minister (government)|Minister]] of [[Madhya Pradesh Government]]<br />
| term_start2 = 1962<br />
| term_end2 = 1990<br />
| constituency2 = [[sohagpur]]<br />
|predecessor = [[Naresh Chandra]]<br />
|successor = [[Anshuman Singh]]<br />
| office3 = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]]<br />
| term_start3 = 1998<br />
| term_end3 = 1999<br />
| term_start4 = 1967<br />
| term_end4 = 1993<br />
| constituency4 = [[sohagpur]]<br />
| term_start5 = 1962<br />
| term_end5 = 1967<br />
| constituency5 = [[burhar]]<br />
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|birth_date = {{birth date|1922|1|10|df=y}}<br />
|birth_place = Biruhuli, [[Shahdol]]<br />
|spouse = Smt. Tara Devi<br />
|death_date ={{death date and age|1999|9|27|1922|1|10|df=y}}<br />
|death_place=[[Bhopal]], India<br />
|nationality =India]<br />
|party =[[Indian National Congress]]<br />
|profession=Lawyer, politician<br />
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}}<br />
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'''Krishna Pal Singh''' (10 January 1922 – 27 September 1999) was an Indian activist, politician and a former [[governor of Gujarat]]. His career began in the 1940s and ended in the 1990s.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Siddiqui|first1=A. U.|title=Indian Freedom Movement in Princely States of Vindhya Pradesh|date=2004|publisher=Northern Book Centre|isbn=9788172111502|page=89|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Ps1_lvyBxMC&pg=PA89|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
In high school, he organized many student agitations, demonstrations, [[Satyagraha|''satyagrahas'']], debates and conferences. In college, he was President of P.G. College Students' Union, [[Rewa, Madhya Pradesh|Rewa]] and arranged student congresses and volunteer corps. He served throughout the communal riots of 1947–48 and helped [[Sindhi people|Sindhi]] refugees in their migration.<br />
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As a trade union leader, he served as vice president of the [[Madhya Pradesh]] unit of the [[All India Trade Union Congress]].<br />
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He registered with the [[Socialist Party]] in 1946 was an associate of [[Jaya Prakash Narayan]] and [[Ram Manohar Lohia]]. Singh was the president of the [[Socialist Party]] of [[Vindhya Pradesh]] and president of the [[Samyukta Socialist Party]] in Madhya Pradesh.<br />
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He served in varied capacities as a member of the [[All India Congress Committee]] (AICC) and therefore the [[Pradesh Congress Committee]] (PCC) after 1965 when he was inducted into the [[Indian National Congress]] by the late Smt. [[Indira Gandhi]]. . He served as [[Pradesh Congress Committee]] general secretary with [[Shankar Dayal Sharma]] as its president. He served as vice president of the [[Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee]] and was a special invitee within the AICC, when Smt. Indira Gandhi was its president.<br />
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==Political career==<br />
Singh was elected seven times to the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha in 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1980, 1990 and 1998. He was minister five times in the Government of Pandit [[Dwarka Prasad Mishra]], [[Shyama Charan Shukla]], [[Prakash Chandra Sethi]] and [[Arjun Singh (politician, born 1930)|Arjun Singh]] up to 1990. He held several portfolios including finance, law, revenue, planning, jail, excise taxation and tourism.<br />
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He served as deputy leader in Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha; Party Observer in general elections in Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Rajasthan and West Bengal; PRO for party elections to Himachal Pradesh and West Bengal; and political observer for Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. He was president of the [[Friends of the Soviet Union (India)]], India-China Society, Bharat-Nepal Maitri Sangh of Madhya Pradesh Unit. He served as president of the India-Africa Friendship Association and general secretary of the All India Indo-Arab Friendship Society.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Prasad|first1=Krishna|title=All you want to know about governors|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/jul/05spec2.htm|work=Rediff|date=5 July 2004}}<br />
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{{<br />
cite news<br />
|title=Past Governors Of Gujarat<br />
|url=http://www.gujaratassembly.gov.in/pastgoverner.htm<br />
|work=www.gujaratassembly.gov.in<br />
}}</ref><ref><br />
{{<br />
cite news<br />
|last1=Muharkar<br />
|first1=Uday<br />
|title=Centre's controversial decision to suspend Gujarat Assembly likely to benefit BJP<br />
|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/states/story/19961015-centres-controversial-decision-to-suspend-gujarat-assembly-likely-to-benefit-bjp-833961-1996-10-15<br />
|publisher=IndiaToday<br />
|date=15 October 1996<br />
}}</ref><ref><br />
{{<br />
cite news<br />
|title=Gujarat Governor's decision to give CM grace to prove majority sparks off controversy<br />
|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/states/story/19971103-gujrat-governors-decision-to-give-cm-grace-to-prove-majority-sparks-off-controversy-830829-1997-11-03<br />
|publisher=IndiaToday<br />
|date=3 November 1997<br />
}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1962–1967]]<br />
[[Category:Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1967–1972]]<br />
[[Category:Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1972–1977]]<br />
[[Category:Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1977–1980]]<br />
[[Category:Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1980–1985]]<br />
[[Category:Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1990–1992]]<br />
[[Category:Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1998–2003]]<br />
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