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New Delhi. Jan 27: The years 1989 and 1991 proved to be crucial ones for Ramaswamy Venkataraman, the eighth President of India, who died here today.
In December 1989, he appointed Vishwanath Pratap Singh as head of a minority National Front government but required him to demonstrate his majority support by a vote of the House.
In March 1991, he appointed Chandra Shekhar as a minority PM with the support of the Congress. Born on December 4, 1910, in the village of Rajamadam, Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu, Venkataraman was the 8th President of the Republic of India, serving from 1987 to 1992. Before his election as President, Venkataraman served nearly four years as the 7th Vice-President. A member of the Congress, he held various ministerial positions in the course of his political career
. Law and trade union activity led to Venkataraman's increasing association with politics. Venkataraman was the member of the Constituent Assembly that drafted India's constitution. He was elected in 1950, to free India's Provisional Parliament (1950-1952) and to the First Parliament (1952-1957). During his term of legislative activity, Venkataraman attended the 1952 Session of the Metal Trades Committee of International Labour Organisation as a workers' delegate. He was a member of the Indian Parliamentary Delegation to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in New Zealand. Venkataraman was also Secretary to the Congress Parliamentary Party in 1953-1954.
Although re-elected to Parliament in 1957, Venkataraman resigned his seat in the Lok Sabha to join the State Government of Madras as a Minister. There Venkataraman held the portfolios of Industries, Labour, Cooperation, Power, Transport and Commercial Taxes from 1957 to 1967. During this time, he was also Leader of the Upper House, namely, the Madras Legislative Council.
Venkataraman was appointed a Member of the Union Planning Commission in 1967 and was entrusted the subjects of Industry, Labour, power, Transport, Communications, Railways. He held that office until 1971. In 1977, Venkataraman was elected to the Lok Sabha from Madras (South) Constituency and served as an Opposition Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee.
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