{{short description|Indian politician (b. 1922, d. 1999)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder |name=Krishnapal Singh |image = Krishnapal_singh.jpg |order= 14th |office= Governor of Gujarat |term_start= 1 March 1996 |term_end= 24 April 1998 |office2 = [[Minister (government)|Minister]] of [[Madhya Pradesh Government]] |term_start2 = 1962 |term_end2 = 1990 |constituency2 = [[Sohagpur (Shahdol)]] |predecessor = [[Naresh Chandra]] |successor = [[Anshuman Singh (politician)|Anshuman Singh]] |office3 = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] |term_start3 = 1998 |term_end3 = 1999 |term_start4 = 1967 |term_end4 = 1993 |constituency4 = [[Sohagpur (Shahdol)]] |term_start5 = 1962 |term_end5 = 1967 |constituency5 = [[Burhar]]
|birth_date = {{birth date|1922|1|10|df=y}} |birth_place = Biruhuli, [[Shahdol]] |spouse = Smt. Tara Devi |death_date ={{death date and age|1999|9|27|1922|1|10|df=y}} |death_place=[[Bhopal]], India |party =[[Indian National Congress]] |profession=Lawyer, politician }}
'''Krishnapal Singh''' (10 January 1922 – 27 September 1999) was an Indian activist, politician and a former [[Governor of Gujarat]] from [[Shahdol]] in [[Baghelkhand]]. His career began in the 1940s and ended in the 1990s.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Siddiqui|first1=A. U.|title=Indian Freedom Movement in Princely States of Vindhya Pradesh|date=2004|publisher=Northern Book Centre|isbn=9788172111502|page=89|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Ps1_lvyBxMC&pg=PA89|language=en}}</ref>
==Early life== In high school, he organized many student agitations, demonstrations, [[Satyagraha|''satyagrahas'']], debates and conferences. In college, he was President of P.G. College Students' Union, [[Rewa, Madhya Pradesh|Rewa]] and arranged student congresses and volunteer corps. He served throughout the communal riots of 1947–48 and helped [[Sindhi people|Sindhi]] refugees in their migration.
As a trade union leader, he served as vice president of the [[Madhya Pradesh]] unit of the [[All India Trade Union Congress]].
He registered with the [[Socialist Party]] in 1946 was an associate of [[Jaya Prakash Narayan]] and [[Ram Manohar Lohia]]. Singh was the president of the [[Socialist Party]] of [[Vindhya Pradesh]] and president of the [[Samyukta Socialist Party]] in Madhya Pradesh.
He served in varied capacities as a member of the [[All India Congress Committee]] (AICC) and therefore the [[Pradesh Congress Committee]] (PCC) after 1965 when he was inducted into the [[Indian National Congress]] by the late Smt. [[Indira Gandhi]]. . He served as [[Pradesh Congress Committee]] general secretary with [[Shankar Dayal Sharma]] as its president. He served as vice president of the [[Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee]] and was a special invitee within the AICC, when Smt. Indira Gandhi was its president.
==Political career== Singh was elected seven times to the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha in 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1980, 1990 and 1998. He was minister five times in the Government of Pandit [[Dwarka Prasad Mishra]], [[Shyama Charan Shukla]], [[Prakash Chandra Sethi]] and [[Arjun Singh (politician, born 1930)|Arjun Singh]] up to 1990. He held several portfolios including finance, law, revenue, planning, jail, excise taxation and tourism.
He served as deputy leader in Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha; Party Observer in general elections in Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Rajasthan and West Bengal; PRO for party elections to Himachal Pradesh and West Bengal; and political observer for Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. He was president of the [[Friends of the Soviet Union (India)]], India-China Society, Bharat-Nepal Maitri Sangh of Madhya Pradesh Unit. He served as president of the India-Africa Friendship Association and general secretary of the All India Indo-Arab Friendship Society.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Prasad|first1=Krishna|title=All you want to know about governors|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/jul/05spec2.htm|work=Rediff|date=5 July 2004}} </ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Past Governors Of Gujarat |url=http://www.gujaratassembly.gov.in/pastgoverner.htm |work=www.gujaratassembly.gov.in |archive-date=22 April 2019 |access-date=13 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422181707/http://www.gujaratassembly.gov.in/pastgoverner.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref> {{ cite news |last1=Muharkar |first1=Uday |title=Centre's controversial decision to suspend Gujarat Assembly likely to benefit BJP |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/states/story/19961015-centres-controversial-decision-to-suspend-gujarat-assembly-likely-to-benefit-bjp-833961-1996-10-15 |publisher=IndiaToday |date=15 October 1996 }}</ref><ref> {{ cite news |title=Gujarat Governor's decision to give CM grace to prove majority sparks off controversy |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/states/story/19971103-gujrat-governors-decision-to-give-cm-grace-to-prove-majority-sparks-off-controversy-830829-1997-11-03 |publisher=IndiaToday |date=3 November 1997 }}</ref>
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