Aditi Singh (born 15 November 1987) is an Indian politician. She is an MLA from the constituency of
Rae Bareli in the state of
Uttar Pradesh, having won the seat in 2017 and 2022. She was one of the youngest members of Uttar Pradesh's 17th
Vidhan Sabha (2017-2022). She left Congress and joined
in 2021. In 2019, she was attacked by goons in a report of political rivalry with
Dinesh Pratap Singh
Dinesh Pratap Singh (born 3 October 1967) is an Indian politician (with few criminal complains) and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In 2019, he was linked in a political rivalry after a deadly attack on young local female politi ...
.
Early life
Her father
Akhilesh Kumar Singh
Akhilesh Kumar Singh (15 September 1959 – 20 August 2019) was an Indian politician.
Akhilesh Singh was born on 15 September 1959. Singh was first elected to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly in 1993 as an Indian National Congress candid ...
was a five time representative of Raebareli Sadar seat for multiple political parties. Aditi was educated in Delhi and Mussorie before attending
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
in the United States for a degree in management. She was involved in social work before her political career.
Career
She won the assembly election in 2017 by a margin of more than 90,000 votes on a Congress ticket. After she was suspended from Congress for her connection with BJP, on 24 November she officially joined
BJP. She was married to
Angad Singh Saini, an MLA in Punjab Legislative Assembly from Nawanshahr constituency.
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1987 births
Living people
Women in Uttar Pradesh politics
Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2017–2022
21st-century Indian women politicians
21st-century Indian politicians
People from Raebareli
Fuqua School of Business alumni
Indian National Congress politicians
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2022–2027