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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 1,517,701 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 33 in 2019). Jaswant Singh is the 12,175th most popular politician (down from 11,492nd in 2019), the 455th most popular biography from India (down from 410th in 2019) and the 146th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jaswant Singh ranks 12,175 out of 19,576. Before him are Elisabeth, Countess of Vermandois, Constantine IV of Armenia, Christian Ntsay, Juan Guaidó, Eudokia Baïana, and Constance Markievicz. After him are Thomas I Komnenos Doukas, Carl Gustaf Tessin, Winthrop Rockefeller, Adalbert, Duke of Lorraine, Cwichelm of Wessex, and Ur-Nungal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Jaswant Singh ranks 283. Before him are Holger Czukay, Daevid Allen, Richard Dürr, Gianluigi Saccaro, Nani Bregvadze, and Pupi Avati. After him are Gary Gygax, Francesco Coccopalmerio, Sawa, Hermann Huppen, Ants Antson, and Bhalchandra Nemade. Among people deceased in 2020, Jaswant Singh ranks 273. Before him are Pedro Casaldáliga, Barry Hulshoff, Ronald Graham, Roger Carel, Mahmoud Jibril, and Zenon Grocholewski. After him are Fou Ts'ong, Ramadan Shalah, Silva Batuta, José Bonaparte, Kićo Slabinac, and Irm Hermann.

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In India

Among people born in India, Jaswant Singh ranks 455 out of 1,861. Before him are Govind Ballabh Pant (1887), K. D. Jadhav (1926), Fathima Beevi (1927), Fatima Sheikh (1831), Pingali Venkayya (1876), and Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897). After him are Chand Bibi (1550), Firaq Gorakhpuri (1896), Nagarjun (1911), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Anupam Kher (1955), and Bhalchandra Nemade (1938).

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Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Jaswant Singh ranks 146. Before him are Sukhdev Thapar (1907), Phoolan Devi (1963), Sucheta Kriplani (1908), Jhalkaribai (1830), Govind Ballabh Pant (1887), and Fatima Sheikh (1831). After him are Chand Bibi (1550), Amrit Kaur (1889), Harihara I (1336), Rajaram I (1670), Balaji Vishwanath (1662), and Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV (1884).

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