Sardar Buta Singh
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Sardar Buta Singh (born 1934) is a former governor of Bihar state, India. He took office on November 5 2004. He was the home minister of India during the early 1990s. He is a Sikh and was first elected to the Indian Parliament in 1962.
His controversial decision to recommend the dissolution of the Bihar Assembly in 2005 was sharply criticised by the Supreme Court. The court ruled that Mr. Singh had acted in haste and misled the federal cabinet because he did not want a particular party claiming to form the government, to come to power. Mr. Singh however claimed that the party was resorting to unfair means (read horse trading) to secure support to form the government.
On January 26, 2006 Singh sent a fax to President Abdul Kalam offering to resign his post. [link]. The next day he left office and was replaced by West Bengal governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi.
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