| Sahib Singh Verma | |
| Birth Date: | 1943 3, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Delhi, British India |
| Death Place: | Jonaicha Khurd, Rajasthan, India |
| Children: | 5 (including Parvesh Verma, Siddharth Sahib Singh) |
| Office: | 4th Chief Minister of Delhi |
| Term: | 27 February 1996 – 12 October 1998 |
| Predecessor: | Madan Lal Khurana |
| Successor: | Sushma Swaraj |
| Party: | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Sahib Singh Verma (15 March 1943 – 30 June 2007) was an Indian politician and the former senior vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party.[1] He served as Chief Minister of Delhi (1996–1998) and was member of 13th Lok Sabha, Parliament of India (1999–2004).[2] He served as the Union Labour Minister of India.[3]
Chaudhary Sahib Singh was born on 15 March 1943 in Mundka village of Lakra Jats, Delhi to Mir Singh, a zamindar, and Bharpai Devi in a Jat family.[4] [5] In early childhood he was deeply influenced by Arya Samaj.
Singh had a PhD degree in Library Science, and started work as librarian in Bhagat Singh College, Delhi.[6] He also held a master's degree in Arts, (M.A.) and also in Library Science from Aligarh Muslim University.[7]
He was married to Sahib Kaur. They had two sons and three daughters and one of his sons, Parvesh Verma is Member of parliament of Lok Sabha from West Delhi.[8]
He was active in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. He had also served the World Jat Aryan Foundation, as its president.[9]
In 1977 he was elected to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and took the Oath as a Councillor by the hands of Guru Radha Kishan. Initially he won as a Janata Party candidate and was re-elected on a BJP ticket. He became the Education and Development Minister in the Delhi government in 1993.[10]
In 1996, after Madan Lal Khurana was embroiled in a corruption crisis, Sahib Singh became the Chief Minister of Delhi. Singh served as CM for two and a half years, facing increasing rivalry from Khurana.[11] Following an onion price crisis, he was replaced by Sushma Swaraj.
Subsequently, he won the Lok Sabha elections, 1999 from Outer Delhi with a margin of over two lakh votes.[12] In 2002, he became Minister of Labour in the Vajpayee government, and was known as "bull in a China shop" for standing up against the bureaucrats against lowering the Provident Fund interest rate.[11] He was defeated in the 2004 polls.
He died in a road accident in Rajasthan in 2007.[13]