http://o3.indiatimes.com/mytimes/archive/2007/08/15/4763210.aspx
A question like this should, normally, focus one's attention on leaders who made a positive impact on the country. However, for the sake of looking at the Indian picture as a whole, it would be prudent not to exclude those who had the opportunity to constructively contribute to the Indian story, but did not do so. One person who got such an opportunity, and yet, made a retrograde impact on India is VP Singh. It was VP Singh who gave a fillip to cast system that was, at least in urban India, on the decline. He revived the waning cast system, not out of any sense of social justice, but to strengthen his political position by creating a vote bank.
He is responsible for taking India back by decades and introducing divisive trends so detrimental to national development.
A question like this should, normally, focus one's attention on leaders who made a positive impact on the country. However, for the sake of looking at the Indian picture as a whole, it would be prudent not to exclude those who had the opportunity to constructively contribute to the Indian story, but did not do so. One person who got such an opportunity, and yet, made a retrograde impact on India is VP Singh. It was VP Singh who gave a fillip to cast system that was, at least in urban India, on the decline. He revived the waning cast system, not out of any sense of social justice, but to strengthen his political position by creating a vote bank.
He is responsible for taking India back by decades and introducing divisive trends so detrimental to national development.
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