Arjun Singh, Indian political Congress leader has become prominent figure in the political domain by introducing reservation systems for the backward class people. In the current Indian Government headed by Dr. Manmohan Singh, Arjun Singh is the Human Resource Development Minister. He also held the same post in the Narasimha Rao government in the year 1991. But he resigned from the post on the Babri Masjid controversy. After leaving the party with the support of Ex- CM of UP and Uttaranchal Mr. Narayan Dutt Tiwari, he formed All India Congress (Tiwari). Mr.tiwari became the president of the Party.

Arjun Singh was born on 5th November 1930 in Madhya Pradesh to father Rao Shiv Bahadur Singh and mother Mohini Devi. He belonged to a Jagirdaar family, as his father was a Former Jagirdaar of Churhat Jagir under Ex Princely State Of Rewa. Arjun Singh was married to Saroj devi of Pratapgarh near Amarpatan in Satna M.P. and they have two sons and a daughter. Abhimanyu singh, the first son os Arjun Singh is a businessman in Bangalore and the second son Ajay Singh `Rahul` is an Indian National Congress politician,MP MLA and has been a minister in M.P.Government. Former MP CM Digvijay Singh, Ex Union Cabinat minsiter Sanjay Singh Of Amethi and noted poet Late Shiv Mangal Singh Suman has been a close relative of Arjun Singh.

The newly formed party by arjun Singh lost at the Lok Sabha Elections of the year 1996. he returned to congress and in 1999, lost again from Hoshangabad. In April 2000, he got elected for Rajya sabha which he is carrying on. Apart from that he doubly functioned as a minister in the Rajiv Gandhi government, and held the post of Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh three times & Governor of Punjab once for a short period.

In the year 2000 he was bestowed the `Outstanding Parliamentarian Award`. He has been intimately consociated with various social and cultural organizations with his keen interest in social work. Here are the positions held by Arjun Singh in a orderly manner.

He has played a significant role to ensure the reservation of the Backward castes. According to the 104th Amendment Bill, the State Goverment can ask all private unassisted educational institutes to reserve seats for designated Other Backward Classes. In early 2006, Mr. Singh attempted to increase caste-based reservation quotas for the supposed Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in the internationally esteemed Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management, along with other Indian central government run institutes of higher studies, from 22.5% to 49.5% . He also suggested that overall seats be modified over a short period of time in order to mollify the general category students, so that the absolute number of general category seats remains the same. Arjun Singh contrives to inflict quotas not merely in 32 Central institutions, but also in over 100 deemed universities.