Kedar Nath Singh was an Indian politician. He was an member of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

. Singh served as the

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council (Hindi: ''Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Parishad'') is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of Uttar Pradesh, a state in India. Uttar Pradesh is one of the six states in India, where the state legislature is ...

from the Varanasi Division Graduates Constituency in

Varanasi district Varanasi district is a district in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, with Varanasi city as the district headquarters. It is surrounded by Mirzapur district, Jaunpur district, Ghazipur district, Chandauli district, and Bhadohi distric ...

. Babu kedar Nath Singh, a popular

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past ...

MP, elected from Sultanpur. He was reelected in 1971 on India congress ticket from Sultanpur district. He remained MP and member of union cabinet of

Indira Gandhi Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (; Given name, ''née'' Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was elected as third prime minister of India in 1966 ...

. In 1984 he was reelected and remained

general secretary. He was elected Rajya sabha MP for six years. He is the founder of educational institutions and worked for correction of educational backwardness in Sultanpur and neighbouring districts. He compared his accomplishments with the 1947 battle of independence. He has three sons and one daughter, Arvind Singh, ��िनोद सिंह Ashok Singh, Lt Sushma Singh.

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