Virbhadra Singh |
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In office
25 December 2012 – 27 December 2017 |
| Governor | Urmila Singh,Kalyan Singh,Acharya Devvrat |
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| Preceded by | Prem Kumar Dhumal |
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| Succeeded by | Jai Ram Thakur |
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In office
6 March 2003 – 30 December 2007 |
| Governor | Suraj Bhan,Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje |
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| Preceded by | Prem Kumar Dhumal |
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| Succeeded by | Prem Kumar Dhumal |
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In office
3 December 1993 – 24 March 1998 |
| Governor | Surendra Nath,Viswanathan Ratnam,Sudhakarrao Naik,Mahabir Prasad,Sheila Kaul,Mahabir Prasad,V. S. Rama Devi |
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| Preceded by | Shanta Kumar |
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| Succeeded by | Prem Kumar Dhumal |
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In office
8 April 1983 – 5 March 1990 |
| Governor | Hokishe Sema,Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai,Rustom K. S. Ghandhi,S. M. H. Burney,Rustom K. S. Ghandhi,Hari Anand Barari,Rustom K. S. Ghandhi,Basavaiah Rachaiah,Virendra Verma |
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| Preceded by | Thakur Ram Lal |
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| Succeeded by | Shanta Kumar |
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In office
2017–2021 |
| Preceded by | Govind Ram Sharma |
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| Succeeded by | Sanjay Awasthy |
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| Constituency | Arki |
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In office
19 January 2011 – 26 June 2012 |
| Prime Minister | Manmohan Singh |
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| Preceded by | Dinsha Patel |
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| Succeeded by | Vilasrao Deshmukh |
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In office
28 May 2009 – 18 January 2011 |
| Prime Minister | Manmohan Singh |
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| Preceded by | Ram Vilas Paswan |
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| Succeeded by | Beni Prasad Verma |
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In office
September 1982 – April 1983 |
| Prime Minister | Indira Gandhi |
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In office
December 1976 – March 1977 |
| Prime Minister | Indira Gandhi |
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In office
23 August 2012 – 1 January 2013 |
| Preceded by | Kaul Singh Thakur |
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| Succeeded by | Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu |
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| Born | (1934-06-23)23 June 1934
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| Died | 8 July 2021(2021-07-08) (aged 87)
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| Party | Indian National Congress |
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| Spouses |
Ratna Kumari
( m. 1954; died 1983) |
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| Children | 6 (including Vikramaditya and Abhilasha) |
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| Alma mater | Colonel Brown Cambridge School
St. Edward's School
Bishop Cotton School
St. Stephen's College
Delhi University |
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| Reign | 1947–1971 (recognised)
1971-2021 (unrecognised) |
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| Predecessor | Padam Singh |
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| Successor | Vikramaditya Singh (unrecognised) |
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Virbhadra Singh ([viːrəbʰəd̪rə siⁿɦə] ⓘ; 23 June 1934 – 8 July 2021) was an Indian politician who served 6 terms and 21 years as the 4th Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. A leader of the Indian National Congress party, he was elected 9 times as a Member of Legislative Assembly to the Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha and 5 times as Member of Parliament to the Lok Sabha. Virbhadra Singh was popularly known by the honorific Raja Sahib. Singh holds the distinction of being the longest serving Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, holding the office from 1983 to 1990, from 1993 to 1998, from 2003 to 2007 and finally from 2012 to 2017, when he was succeeded by the BJP's Jai Ram Thakur. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1962, 1967, 1971, 1980 and 2009. Singh served as a Union Minister in the governments of Indira Gandhi and Manmohan Singh. At the time of his demise, he was serving as an MLA from Arki constituency.