Dhan Singh Negi is an Indian politician who was a member of the

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from 2017 to 2022 representing the Tehri constituency in Tehri Garhwal district. Previously affiliated to the

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(BJP), he switched to the

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party (INC) in early 2022. In the 2017 state assembly elections, he defeated

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, then Cabinet Minister by a large margin.

Early life and education

Dhan Singh Negi was born in 1970 as the youngest child of a poor family in Palkot, a remote village in Patti Lamridhar, Tehri Garhwal,

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(now

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), India. His education includes a

Master of Physics A Master of Physics honours (or MPhys (Hons)) degree is a specific master's degree for courses in the field of physics. United Kingdom In England and Wales, the MPhys is an undergraduate award available after pursuing a four-year course of study at ...

Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University(HNBGU) (formerly known as Garhwal University) is a Central University, established in 1973, located in Srinagar, Uttarakhand in Northern India. The university is named after Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna, ...

and a

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teaching qualification. He was awarded an

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in 2019.

Career

Negi worked as a lecturer in Physics before becoming a full-time politician. He was a member of Badri- Kedar Temple Committee and was chairman of the Aanchal Milk Cooperative Society in Tehri Garhwal from 2009 to 2012. He was elected to the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly in 2017, receiving 20,896 votes, defeating

, then cabinet minister by a margin of 6,840 votes. In April 2017 he declared that he would donate half of his salary to support the marriages of daughters of widows, disabled and poor people. He also presided over the Public Sector Units & Municipal Oversight and the Information Technology Policy committees of the Uttarakhand Assembly. Negi is a member of the board of

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and the Uttarakhand State Wildlife Board.

Positions held

Legislative Assembly Elections contested

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Negi, Dhan Singh Living people Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttarakhand Uttarakhand MLAs 2017–2022 People from New Tehri 1972 births Garhwali people