Kunwar Rewati Raman Singh (born 5 October 1943) is an Indian politician from the

Allahabad Allahabad (), officially known as Prayagraj, also known as Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi (Benares). It is the administrat ...

Lok Sabha Constituency in Uttar Pradesh. He played a major role in the establishment of the

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; translation: ''Socialist Party'', founded 4 October 1992) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India, headquartered in New Delhi but mainly based in Uttar Pradesh, with significant presence in other states as w ...

with SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, Beni Prasad Verma and Azam Khan. He is the national secretary of Samajwadi Party. He has served Karachana, the Vidhan Sabha constituency of

more than 7 times as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA). He was also elected as a Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from

twice after defeating the popular BJP politician, Murali Manohar Joshi in 2004 general elections. He has now been elected as an MP (Rajya Sabha) from Uttar Pradesh. He was made irrigation minister and environment minister.

Early life

Rewati Raman Singh was born in a Bhumihar family. He actively took part in the JP Movement against emergency imposed by

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 ...

. He had also worked with Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj and many other leaders to clean the holy Ganges river. He had worked with many popular leaders like former prime minister

V. P. Singh Vishwanath Pratap Singh (25 June 1931 – 27 November 2008), shortened to V. P. Singh, was an Indian politician who was the 7th Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990 and the 41st Raja Bahadur of Manda. He is India's only prime minister to ...

, Chandra Shekhar, and Raj Narain.

Positions held

*Member, Public Accounts Committee *Leader of opposition, Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (from 6th December 1991 to 6th December 1992) * Member of Parliament from Allahabad (Lok Sabha constituency) two terms (2004 and 2009) * Member of Parliament Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh from 2016 to 2022

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