<P> He was a minister in the P.V. Narasimha Rao cabinet but he resigned after the Babri Masjid demolition . At the time, he formed the All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) along with Narayan Dutt Tiwari, former Union minister and ex-CM of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand (formerly Uttaranchal) as President, but he lost in the 1996 Loksabha elections from Satna in Madhya Pradesh and the Congress too lost power at the center . </P> <P> Later he returned to Congress and lost again from Hoshangabad in Madhya Pradesh . He served as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh three times, Union minister and Governor of Punjab once for a short period . As Governor of Punjab, he worked for the Rajiv - Longowal Accord for peace in Punjab . He was awarded the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award in 2000 . </P> <P> Arjun Singh was the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh when the deadly gas leak from the Union Carbide factory occurred . It is widely alleged that on the fateful night between 2 and 3 December 1984, when the gas leak occurred, Arjun Singh fled to his Kerwa Dam Palace (outside Bhopal) to save himself from deadly effects of leaked gas and was not available to manage the crisis or lead the administration . </P> <P> Subsequently, the Arjun Singh government's mishandling was criticized by the court in the verdict on Bhopal incident pronounced by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhopal on 7 June 2010 . The media raised serious questions about his role in the release of Warren Anderson . </P>

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