Half - Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India

by Vinay Sitapati

P.C. Alexander, then Indira Gandhi’s principal secretary, recalls that Zail Singh’s and Narasimha Rao’s names were both floated.26 But southern politicians, especially Tamil Nadu’s Dravidian parties, preferred a Sikh over a Brahmin, and Zail Singh was made President.