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Date of birth

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Singh was born on 25 June 1930,^[1] the third child of the Hindu Rajput Zamindar family^[2]^[3]

References

^ Pandya, Haresh (29 November 2008). "V. P. Singh, a leader of India who defended poor, dies at 77". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2019-12-01. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
^ Kumar, Ashwani (2008). Community Warriors: State, Peasants and Caste Armies in Bihar. Anthem Press. pp. 75. ISBN 978-1-84331-709-8. Archived from the original on 2020-09-03. {{cite book}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 2020-09-30 suggested (help)
^ Ghai, Rajat (7 May 2014). "The office of Prime Minister: A largely north Indian upper-caste, Hindu affair". Business Standard India. Archived from the original on 19 June 2017. Retrieved 19 May 2017.

Pandya, Haresh (29 November 2008). "V. P. Singh, a leader of India who defended poor, dies at 77". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2019-12-01. Retrieved 14 September 2011. gives the date of birth as 25 June 1931
Kumar, Ashwani (2008). Community Warriors: State, Peasants and Caste Armies in Bihar. Anthem Press. pp. 75. ISBN 978-1-84331-709-8. Archived from the original on 2020-09-03. {{cite book}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 2020-09-30 suggested (help) does not mention the date of birth, though page 75-76 mentions that VP Singh was a Rajput. (The archive link does not show page 75.)
Ghai, Rajat (7 May 2014). "The office of Prime Minister: A largely north Indian upper-caste, Hindu affair". Business Standard India. Archived from the original on 19 June 2017. Retrieved 19 May 2017. does not mention the date of birth, though it does mention that he was a Hindu and a Rajput.

So the IP editor was correct in trying to change the date of birth to 25 June 1931.-- Toddy1 (talk) 07:31, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Undiscussed move

Pinging @Toddy1 w.r.t. move; @APPu Please open a Wikipedia:Requested moves for the move of this page. -- DaxServer (talk) 19:01, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Google ngram viewer results. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 09:00, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 16 April 2022

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Vishwanath Pratap Singh → V. P. Singh – The shortened form seems to be the widely used reference instead of full form. See Ngrams and Google Books (full ~18,400 vs short 178,000) — DaxServer (t · m · c) 10:15, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Courtesy ping to @Toddy1, APPU, and Kautilya3: from above section — DaxServer (t · m · c) 10:17, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support - WP:COMMONNAME. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 10:21, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support as per above. Kpddg ^(talk) 16:13, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Edit 'Prime Minister Section'

Looks like a case of copy paste has happened in this section. The section entitled 'Prime Minister' has the paragraph

'V. P. Singh faced his first crisis within few days of taking office, when Kashmiri militants kidnapped the daughter of his Home Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed (former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir).[56] His government agreed to the demand for releasing militants in exchange; partly to end the storm of criticism that followed, he shortly thereafter appointed Jagmohan Malhotra, a former bureaucrat, as Governor of Jammu and Kashmir.'

This is also the opening para of the sub section 'Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus'. Suggest keeping this para in the 'Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus' and taking it off from the broader 'Prime Minister' section Suksane (talk) 10:41, 17 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[NYT_Obituary-1] Pandya, Haresh (29 November 2008). "V. P. Singh, a leader of India who defended poor, dies at 77". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2019-12-01. Retrieved 14 September 2011.

[2] Kumar, Ashwani (2008). Community Warriors: State, Peasants and Caste Armies in Bihar. Anthem Press. pp. 75. ISBN 978-1-84331-709-8. Archived from the original on 2020-09-03. {{cite book}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 2020-09-30 suggested (help)

[3] Ghai, Rajat (7 May 2014). "The office of Prime Minister: A largely north Indian upper-caste, Hindu affair". Business Standard India. Archived from the original on 19 June 2017. Retrieved 19 May 2017.

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