Kunwar Bharatendra Singh is an Indian politician. He was a member of
Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (Hindi: ''Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha'') is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Uttar Pradesh. There are 403 seats in the house filled by direct election using a single-member first-past-the-p ...
elected from
Bijnor
Bijnor is a city and a municipal board in Bijnor district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, IndiaBharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...
.
He lost 2019 Lok Sabha election from
Bijnor
Bijnor is a city and a municipal board in Bijnor district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India
Kunwar Bhartendra Singh belongs to
Jat
The Jat people ((), ()) are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subse ...
community .
He has been in news and controversies as an accused in the Muzaffarnagar riots.
He was also issued notice by the
Allahabad High Court
Allahabad High Court, also known as High Court of Judicature at Allahabad is the high court based in Prayagraj that has jurisdiction over the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It was established on 17 March 1866, making it one of the oldest high ...
on an election petition filed by one Rajendra Kumar.
On 3 October 2015, Singh and residents of Vidurkuti village raided an
illegal sand mining
Sand theft or unauthorised or illegal sand mining leads to a widely unknown global example of natural and non-renewable resource depletion problem comparable in extent to global water scarcity. Beach theft is illegal removal of large quantities ...
site along the
Ganga river
The Ganges ( ) (in India: Ganga ( ); in Bangladesh: Padma ( )). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river to which India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China are the riparian states." is ...
, forcing the miners to flee. In March 2019, an effigy of Kunwar Bharatendra was burnt in Mawana Khurd and people held black flags and protested while alleging no visit from the MP in the region and no development of the area in the past five years.
Political career
*2002 – 2007 and 2012 – 2014: Member, Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (Two Terms)
*2002 – 2003: Minister of State, Irrigation, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh
*2012 – 2014: Whip, B.J.P., Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
*May 2014: Elected to 16th Lok Sabha
* Candidate of
Bijnor
Bijnor is a city and a municipal board in Bijnor district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, IndiaMP seat for
BJP
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...