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Jaswant Singh

1938 - 2020

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Major Jaswant Singh (; 3 January 1938 – 27 September 2020) was an officer of the Indian Army and an Indian Cabinet Minister. He was one of the founding members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and was one of India's longest serving parliamentarians, having been a member of the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha almost continuously between 1980 and 2014. He was NDA's Vice-presidential candidate in the 2012 Indian vice-presidential election. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jaswant Singh has received more than 1,332,539 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jaswant Singh is the 11,526th most popular politician (up from 14,009th in 2019), the 413th most popular biography from India (up from 659th in 2019) and the 135th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jaswant Singh ranks 11,526 out of 15,577Before him are Michael Kahn, Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Gustavo Noboa, Vasil Mzhavanadze, King Shenjing of Zhou, and Gary Hart. After him are Ada, Countess of Holland, Franco Maria Malfatti, Pope Heraclas of Alexandria, Yahya ibn al-Qasim, Patsy Reddy, and Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Jaswant Singh ranks 273Before him are Willi Schulz, Anar Rzayev, Anna Wierzbicka, Fred Anton Maier, Mirko Kovač, and Imre Földi. After him are Myroslav Skoryk, Tang Jiaxuan, David Bailey, Nikolai Manoshin, Susan Strasberg, and Valentin Mankin. Among people deceased in 2020, Jaswant Singh ranks 257Before him are Cecil Bødker, Zenon Grocholewski, Leon Fleisher, Kuniwo Nakamura, Pierino Prati, and José Bonaparte. After him are Gary Peacock, Myroslav Skoryk, Mario Corso, Ronald Harwood, Nobby Stiles, and Jeremy Bulloch.

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In India

Among people born in India, Jaswant Singh ranks 413 out of 1,493Before him are The Great Khali (1972), Brian Horrocks (1895), Sabu Dastagir (1924), Bhāskara I (600), Priyanka Chopra (1982), and Balaji Vishwanath (1662). After him are Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884), C. N. Annadurai (1909), Madhubala (1933), Kajol (1974), Prince Vijaya (-543), and Sucheta Kriplani (1908).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Jaswant Singh ranks 135Before him are Durgabai Deshmukh (1909), Bal Thackeray (1926), Malik Kafur (1250), Man Singh I (1550), B. D. Jatti (1912), and Balaji Vishwanath (1662). After him are Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884), C. N. Annadurai (1909), Prince Vijaya (-543), Sucheta Kriplani (1908), M. S. Swaminathan (1925), and Jayalalithaa (1948).

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