Dr Nirmal Kumar Singh is an Indian politician and was the last Speaker of the
Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly
The Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly also known as the Jammu and Kashmir Vidhan Sabha is the legislature of Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir was dissolved by the Governor on 21 N ...
of the erstwhile
Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir may refer to:
* Kashmir, the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent
* Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), a region administered by India as a union territory
* Jammu and Kashmir (state), a region administered ...
State. He is a former
Deputy Chief Minister
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of
Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir may refer to:
* Kashmir, the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent
* Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), a region administered by India as a union territory
* Jammu and Kashmir (state), a region administered ...
. He is a leader of
Bharatiya Janata Party
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. On 1 March 2015, he assumed the charge of the Minister for Power Development and Housing and Urban Development.
He was elected to the
Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly
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The Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir was dissolved by the Governor on 21 N ...
in the 2014 assembly election from
Billawar
Billawar is a town and a notified area committee in Kathua district of the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Billawar was founded by Raja Bhog Pal in the 7th century A.D., it was a kingdom and its capital was Basohli until the 11t ...
in
Kathua district
Kathua district is one of 20 administrative districts that comprise the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is surrounded by Jammu to the northwest, the Doda and Udhampur districts to the north, the state of Himachal Pradesh to th ...
.
Early life, education and academic profession
Dr Nirmal Singh was born on 22 January 1956 to a humble family in Karanwara
Basohli
Basohli (formerly Vishwasthali) is a town near Kathua in Kathua district in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is situated on the right bank of River Ravi at an altitude of 1876 ft. It was founded by Raja Bhupat Pal som ...
, Jammu and Kashmir. He did his primary education in his native place. He is the youngest of his two brothers. His father was a security aide of the erstwhile
Maharaja Hari Singh
Maharaja Sir Hari Singh (September 1895 – 26 April 1961) was the last ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Hari Singh was the son of Amar Singh and Bhotiali Chib. In 1923, following his uncle's death, Singh became t ...
of
Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)
Jammu and Kashmir, officially known as the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu, was a princely state during the Company rule in India from 1757 to 1858 as well as the British Raj in India from 1846 to 1952. The princely state was created afte ...
. Dr Nirmal Singh has done PhD in history from
University of Jammu
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in 1988 and retired as a professor in the Department of History, the University of Jammu in 2017. After being elected to J&K Legislative Assembly in 2014 and becoming Deputy Chief Minister of the erstwhile State, Dr Singh acted as a guide for two of his students who were preparing for PhD thesis submission. Despite being busy with his new assignment as DyCM, Singh ensured he is present at the university to watch the submission. Dr Singh authored a book titled 'Inter Communal Relations in Jammu and Kashmir from 1846-1931', a deep insight into the crucial phase of
history of Jammu and Kashmir
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. He has guided at least four PhD and five M Phil scholars.
Political career
Singh started taking an active interest in political activities at a young age. He was arrested during
the Emergency period in 1975. After serving the ABVP as a pracharak in different parts of the country, Dr Singh returned to
Jammu
Jammu is the winter capital of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), Jammu and Kashmir. It is the headquarters and the largest city in Jammu district of the union territory. Lying on the banks of the river Tawi Ri ...
and joined the University of Jammu as a lecturer in the Post Graduate Department of History. Besides teaching at the department, he also took the mantle of the J&K State President,
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) () is a right-wing all India student organisation affiliated to the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
History
The ABVP, founded in 1948 with the initiative of the RSS ...
and following a directive from the
RSS
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joined the
BJP
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. He was appointed the State General Secretary of the party in 1998.
Singh contested several
Lok Sabha
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and state assembly elections. His first election was 2002 Lok Sabha By-Election from
Jammu (Lok Sabha constituency)
Jammu Lok Sabha constituency is one of the five Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir union territory of in northern India. This constituency was created in 1967.
Previous Assembly segments
Jammu Lok Sabha constituency ...
, he came second with 1,98,277 votes and Chowdhary Talib Hussein of
Jammu & Kashmir National Conference
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was declared victorious under allegations of heavy rigging.
Dr Nirmal Singh was among the first politicians from
Jammu
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to demand the
Reorganisation of the State of Jammu and Kashmir on a regional basis amid heavy discrimination with Jammu and
Ladakh
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regions by
Kashmir
Kashmir () is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. Today, the term encompas ...
centric state governments. While he was the State President of Bharatiya Janata Party he released a booklet containing figures to show how Jammu was discriminated against by the state government. In that booklet, he pointed out that out of 2.5 lakh total State Government employees only one lakh were from the Jammu region in 2004. The State Secretariat had over 85 per cent of employees belonging to Kashmir, while their strength was about 15 per cent from Jammu. The booklet indicated that the investment in the irrigation projects in Kashmir was Rs 38.98 crore against Rs 14.15 crore in Jammu where the geographical area was against in the Kashmir valley. The Booklet also pointed out that Jammu was denied its due share of seats in the Assembly with only 37 seats to the region against 46 of Kashmir. More importantly, in 2004, the average number of voters per Assembly Constituency in the Kashmir region was 55,367 while in Jammu was 78,170 and an average number of voters per Lok Sabha Constituency in Kashmir region was 8,48,971 while in Jammu was 14,46,145. Jammu has 2 Lok Sabha Constituencies and Kashmir has 3.
Singh contested his second election again from
Jammu (Lok Sabha constituency)
Jammu Lok Sabha constituency is one of the five Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir union territory of in northern India. This constituency was created in 1967.
Previous Assembly segments
Jammu Lok Sabha constituency ...
during
2004 Indian general election
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. This time he lost with a margin of 17,558 votes against Congressman
Madan Lal Sharma.
In 2008, Singh contested from
Gandhinagar Assembly Constituency against Raman Bhalla of Indian National Congress. He lost the election by 2263 votes.
During
2009 Indian general election
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Singh contested from
Udhampur (Lok Sabha constituency)
Udhampur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the six Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir in northern India. The constituency covers 20,230 square kilometres of mountainous Himalayan terrain, and is comparable to the size o ...
against
Chaudhary Lal Singh of Congress. Lal singh won the election with a margin of 13,394 votes.
Singh won his first election during
2014 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election
The Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election, 2014 was held in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir in five phases from 25 November – 20 December 2014. Voters elected 87 members to the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, which en ...
from
Billawar
Billawar is a town and a notified area committee in Kathua district of the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Billawar was founded by Raja Bhog Pal in the 7th century A.D., it was a kingdom and its capital was Basohli until the 11t ...
constituency in
Kathua
Kathua is a city and municipal council located in Kathua district of Jammu Division of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, near its border with Punjab, India and Himachal Pradesh. The city is headquarters of Kathua district and is ...
district by defeating sitting Congress MLA by a margin of nearly 17,975 votes. He scored 43,447 votes while his closest rival Manohar Lal Sharma of Congress could get only 25,472 votes. BJP got 25 seats and formed the Government with
Peoples Democratic Party with
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
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as the
Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
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. On March 1, 2015, the newly elected ministers took oath to their respective offices. Singh became the first BJP Deputy Chief Minister and took charge of Minister of Power Development as well as the Minister of Housing & Urban Development in the Cabinet on the same day. Singh was among the top names considered for the post of
Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir
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, if BJP had got the upper hand in the negotiations to form the Government with PDP.
On 7 January 2016, Chief Minister Mufti Sayeed died in
AIIMS New Delhi
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New Delhi (, , ''Naī Dillī'') is the capital of India and a part of the National Capit ...
after multiple organ failures. On 4 April 2016,
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took the oath of the Chief Minister and Dr Singh was sworn in for the second term as Deputy Chief Minister in a simple function held at Raj Bhavan in winter capital Jammu. The coalition was saved after 3 months of wrangling between Ms Mufti and BJP, over the future of their coalition government.
As Minister of Power, Dr Singh worked for strengthening the power distribution and power generation in Jammu and Kashmir. He pushed various power projects in the State costing ₹4,153 crore, especially Pakal Dul Power Project with capacity of 1000 MW. An amount of ₹1,263.9 crore was earmarked to ensure the augmentation of State's transmission system. While answering a question in State Assembly on 28 January 2017, Dr Singh said under PMDP an amount of ₹220 crore has been earmarked for improving power infrastructure at tourist destinations, ₹1,039 crore for augmentation of distribution infrastructure, ₹116 crore for improving distribution network for four industrial estates, ₹900 crore for capital cities and an amount of ₹105 crore for small grids and smart metering. Singh pushed the officers of J&K Power Development Department (PDD) to meet the targets set for completion of various center-funded schemes. In a meeting, convened on 17 March 2018, to review the progress of various schemes, Dr Singh suspended the Superintending Engineer and Executive Engineer of PDD,
Kishtwar district with immediate effect for not meeting the set targets. MoS Power
Asiya Naqash, Com Secretary Power Hridesh Kumar, MD J&K State Development Power Corporation Dr
Shah Faesal
Shah Faesal (born 17 May 1983) is an Indian bureaucrat currently posted as Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Culture (India) In 2010, he became the first Kashmiri to top the Indian Civil Services Examination. He tendered his resignation from ...
, Secretary Technical Power and Chief Engineers, representative of project monitoring and implementing agencies and senior officers of the department were present in the meeting. On 28 March 2018, Singh launched the initiative of providing electricity to 53 un-electrified villages of
Kishtwar
Kishtwar is a town, municipality and administrative headquarter of the Kishtwar District in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The district was carved out of the Doda district in 2007. It is located in the Jammu division.
T ...
,
Kupwara
Kupwara is a town and a municipal council in Kupwara district in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Municipal council Kupwara is an Urban Local Body with 13 elected members (also in Delimitation in progress for wards), which adm ...
,
Bandipora
Bandipore () or Bandipora is the headquarters of district of Bandipore in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is located on the northern banks of Wullar Lake—the second-largest freshwater lake in Asia. Bandipora has a ter ...
,
Leh
Leh () ( lbj, ) is the joint capital and largest city of Ladakh, a union territory of India. Leh, located in the Leh district, was also the historical capital of the Kingdom of Ladakh, the seat of which was in the Leh Palace, the former res ...
and
Kargil
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in the Off Grid Mode from
Kishtwar
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T ...
. The initiative was implemented by J&K State Power Development Corporation Limited (JKSPDC) in collaboration with
IIT Madras
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.
Indian Air Force
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air lifted the Solar panels from
Chandigarh
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to the remote areas on the request of State Government. Dr Singh also worked for the 100% electrification of Jammu and Kashmir under many schemes including center-funded 'Power for All' scheme. He stressed on the Prime Minister’s vision of providing 24×7 electricity to every household of J&K and implementation in transparent and efficient manner. On 11 december 2017, he launched
Saubhagya (''Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojna'') in J&K with motive of providing free electricity connections to the poor of the erstwhile State.
On 17 April 2018, Dr Singh was given the additional charge of the Departments of Industries & Commerce and Forest, Ecology & Environment by the Chief Minister after former ministers
Chander Prakash Ganga and
Chaudhary Lal Singh resigned.
On 29 April 2018, Singh resigned as the Deputy Chief Minister as a part of a cabinet reshuffle. On 10 May 2018, Singh was elected as Speaker of Legislative Assembly, defeating Usman Majid, Congress MLA from Bandipora. The motion to elect Dr Singh was moved by Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister
Syed Basharat Ahmed Bukhari and seconded by then Deputy Chief Minister Kavinder Gupta.
On 21 November 2018, Governor
Satya Pal Malik
Satya Pal Malik (born 24 July 1946) is an Indian politician. Malik was the Governor of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, from August 2018 to October 2019, and it was during his tenure that the constitutional decision to abrogate Articl ...
dissolved the J&K Legislative Assembly but Dr Singh continued to hold the chair of the Speaker. On 16 November 2019, Department of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, J&K Government issued a notification No. LD(PAB)2019/12, stating that Dr Nirmal Singh ceased to hold the office of Speaker of the erstwhile State of J&K with effect from 31 October 2019.
The All-Party meeting was called upon and chaired by the Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
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on 24 June 2021 at New Delhi. Dr. Singh was invited to the meeting along with senior politicians from
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* Kashmir, the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent
* Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), a region administered by India as a union territory
* Jammu and Kashmir (state), a region administered ...
.
After the killing of Rahul Bhat, a clerk under the special employment package for Kashmiri migrants by terrorists in Budgam district on May 12 2022, in an interview with
The Indian Express
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, Dr Singh stressed that apart from the government’s protective measures for the migrant community, the permanent return of
Kashmiri migrants to their homes in the Valley will be possible only when the
local majority community also comes out in their support. In Oct 2022, a committee of Senior BJP Leaders from J&K was constituted to look into the issues related to PM package employees, reserved category employees and minorities living in Kashmir Valley. Dr Singh headed the committee which also included former MLC Ajay Bharti, BJP senior leader, H L Bhat and Kashmir Displaced District president, Chand Ji Bhat. The committee visited Aalwpura Migrant Colony in
Shopian
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district along with Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner, K K Sidha. The committee also visited
Vessu migrant colony in
Kulgam
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district and
Hawal
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Known for
Hawal is known for Hari Parbat, Islamia Co ...
migrant camp in
Pulwama
Pulwama (known as Panwangam in antiquity, and later as Pulgam) is a City and notified area council in the Pulwama district of the Indian-administered territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is located approximately south of the summer capital of ...
district. The committee held meetings with
Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, P K Pole, District Development Commissioner, Shopian and SSP Shopian to take the stock of the situation. A deputation of Kashmiri migrant employees met Dr Singh on 3 April 2023, he was listening to the public grievances at BJP headquarters, Trikuta Nagar, Jammu. He stated that BJP is committed for accelerating construction of transit accommodations for the Kashmiri migrant employees. Dr Singh is available every Monday at the BJP Office, Trikuta Nagar, Jammu for grievance redressal of general public.
Gallery
File:Nirmal Sir Addressing Bhalessa Gandoh bhadrawah.jpg, Dr Nirmal Singh addressing people of Bhalessa Gandoh, Bhadrawah
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File:Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates Sports Complex in Katra, Jammu and Kashmir.jpg, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi
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inaugurates Sports Complex in Katra, Jammu and Kashmir.
File:The Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh addressing the Sainik Sammelan, during his visit to the CRPF Camp, in Anantnag district.jpg, The Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh addressing the Sainik Sammelan, during his visit to the CRPF Camp, in Anantnag district
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. Dr Nirmal Singh and S P Vaid, DGP, J&K Police are also present.
File:Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Narayana Superspeciality Hospital.jpg, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi
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inaugurates Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, Katra. Dr Nirmal Singh is second from the right.
File:All-Party Meeting on Jammu and Kashmir Group Photo (cropped).jpg, Delegates at the All-Party Meeting at Prime Minister's residence in New Delhi
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called upon on 24 June 2021. Dr. Nirmal Singh is third from the left in the back row.
File:Dr Nirmal Singh in Leh Ladakh.jpg, Dr Nirmal Singh, Ashok Kaul, General Secretary (Org.), J&K BJP and other BJP Workers in Leh
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, Ladakh
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.
File:Dr Nirmal Singh and Dineshwar Sharma.jpg, Shri Dineshwar Sharma visited Dr Nirmal Singh's residence at Jammu during his tenure as an Interlocutor to the Government of India for the state of Jammu & Kashmir.
File:Dr Nirmal Singh tours Dhar Mahanpur Basohli.jpg, Dr Nirmal Singh tours Dhar Mahanpur, Basohli
Basohli (formerly Vishwasthali) is a town near Kathua in Kathua district in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is situated on the right bank of River Ravi at an altitude of 1876 ft. It was founded by Raja Bhupat Pal som ...
along with BJP Workers.
File:Dr Nirmal Singh and Prem Kumar Dhumal at Palampur.jpg, Dr Nirmal Singh and Shri Prem Kumar Dhumal, former Chief Minister of Himachal at Palampur
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.
File:Dr Nirmal Singh at the New Delhi BJP HQ.jpg, Dr Nirmal Singh, Shamsheer Singh Manhas
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, Kavinder Gupta and other senior leaders of J&K BJP at the New Delhi BJP HQ for celebrations of the Election of Shri J P Nadda as National President of BJP on 20 Jan 2020.
File:Dr Nirmal Singh felicitating Corona Warriors at Billawar.jpg, Dr Nirmal Singh felicitating Corona Warriors at his Vidhan Sabha Constituency Billawar
Billawar is a town and a notified area committee in Kathua district of the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Billawar was founded by Raja Bhog Pal in the 7th century A.D., it was a kingdom and its capital was Basohli until the 11t ...
.
File:Dr Nirmal Singh COVID Relief Campaign.jpg, Dr Nirmal Singh flagging off the Relief Material during first wave of COVID-19 pandemic
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in Mahanpur
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, Basohli
Basohli (formerly Vishwasthali) is a town near Kathua in Kathua district in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is situated on the right bank of River Ravi at an altitude of 1876 ft. It was founded by Raja Bhupat Pal som ...
.
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