was reported as a potential candidate for President of India. Potential presidential nomination Bhim Singh was reported in the Indian media as potential candidate for the President of India in the 2022 election, for the ruling BJP party despite having been in long opposition to them. Personal life He married Panthers party co-founder Jay Mala. They have one son, Ankit Love who was leader of the One Love Party in Great Britain. Honors He was the Convenor of the Council for Promotion of Dogri Language, Culture and History a body which awards the Dogra Ratan awards. In 2011 the president of India Pratibha Patil, presented the awards at the General Zorawar Singh Auditorium. Death Singh died on 31 May 2022 from a long-illness at his home in Jammu, India at aged 80. Several political leaders including prime minister Modi, ex prime minister Deve Gowda, home minister Amit Shah, defence minister Rajnath Singh, J&K lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, Kashmir crown prince Karan Singh, former Jammu & Kashmir chief ministers Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah, and Mehbooba Mufti wrote condolences in tribute to him. Thousands of people attended his cremation ceremony, which was broadcast on television, and held in his ancestral village near Ramnagar, Udhampur on 1 June 2022. Controversies Defence of Saddam Hussein Bhim Singh along with George Galloway, Natwar Singh and General Baig was a member of the Co-ordination Committee Against Economic Sanctions headed by Iraq's deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz. In 2005 he was called ‘Vishwa Ratna,’ as possibly the only person in the world who could refuse 7.3 million barrels of oil vouchers as illustrated in Table 3 of Vol.II in the report of the UN Committee dealing with Oil-for-food program headed by Paul Volcker during sanctions placed on Iraq. In essence saying no to oil vouchers that would have been worth over $500 million at the time of the Paul Volcker Committee report in 2005. Neither was he served notice to appear in front of the United Nations investigation on the matter. Bhim Singh says that he had also turned down a thick envelope stuffed with cash, at the residence of the Iraqi ambassador in New Delhi, and that he only ever accepted a few token gifts from Saddam, like a bottle of fine alcohol and a Swiss Longines watch with the Ba'ath Party insignia on its dial . Later, Bhim Singh was named by Saddam as an