After the breakup of the Janata government, Charan Singh became the fifth Prime Minister of India on 28 July 1979 as head of a short-lived coalition. In the short period, he took concrete measures to bring about reservations for the BCs. Singh’s letters to the Deputy Prime Minister YB Chavan and SN Kacker, then Minister of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, both dated 3 December 1979 talk about the proposal for 25% reservation for backward classes in central class I and II services to be immediately taken up in the cabinet meeting the other day. Singh also firmly believed that children of government officers should be ineligible for selection for government posts.