He was a close friend of
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and
Benazir Bhutto, and was a founding member of the
Pakistan Peoples Party. He was also elected as
MPA seven times, serving as Minister of Science and Technology, Revenue and Narcotics Affairs. In 1990, he left PPP and formed his political party, the Pakistan Hindu Party (PHP). He designed for his party a saffron flag bearing two ancient logos –
Om and
Trishool. He served as Minister for Agriculture and Revenue and was the Chairman of the National Commission of Minorities. He died on 1 August 2009 at the age of 78, after a prolonged illness, as he had suffered
paralysis in 2004. Prime Minister
Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, in a message to his family, expressed grief over the death of former federal minister, while President
Asif Ali Zardari described him as "one of the fearless political activists who joined the party in the early days of its formation by
Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and who stood by him through thick and thin". His body was taken to his native village, Rana Jagir, 16 km from
Umarkot, for cremation, where earlier, his elder son
Rana Hamir Singh was installed as his successor, the 26th Rana of
Tharparkar's
Thakurs. According to Waseem Altaf, a retired Pakistani bureaucrat,
"whenever the Cabinet was given a defense-related briefing, Rana Chandra Singh was asked to leave the Cabinet Room." ==Personal life==