Pratibha Singh (born 16 June 1956) is an

Indian politician Politics of India works within the framework of the country's Constitution. India is a parliamentary democratic secular republic in which the president of India is the head of state & first citizen of India and the prime minister of India is ...

from Himachal Pradesh and a

Member of the Indian Parliament The Parliament of India (IAST: ) is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. It is a bicameral legislature composed of the president of India and two houses: the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and the Lok Sabha (House of the Peo ...

. She is the widow of Virbhadra Singh, who was elected the

Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh The Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh is the chief executive of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. As per the Constitution of India, the governor is a state's ''de jure'' head, but ''de facto'' executive authority rests with the chief minister ...

on six occasions. She represents the

Mandi Mandi may refer to: Places * Mandı, Azerbaijan India * Mandi, Jammu and Kashmir, a town on the Mandi River in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir * Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, a city in Himachal Pradesh ** Mandi State, former princely sta ...

constituency of

Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh (; ; "Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the thirteen mountain states and is characterized by an extreme landscape featuring several peaks ...

and is a 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 ...

Personal life

Pratibha Singh was born on 16 June 1956 in

Shimla Shimla (; ; also known as Simla, List of renamed Indian cities and states#Himachal Pradesh, the official name until 1972) is the capital and the largest city of the States and union territories of India, northern Indian state of Himachal Prade ...

. She married Virbhadra Singh in 1985. She is his second wife. Virbhadra Singh's daughter from his first marriage,

Abhilasha Kumari Abhilasha Kumari (born 23 February 1956) is currently Judicial Member of Lokpal Committee of India since 23 March 2019. She is a former judge who served on the High Court of Gujarat from 2006 to 2018, and as the first female Chief Justice on the ...

, served as a judge in

Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...

. Virbhadra Singh's son from his second marriage to Pratibha Singh,

Vikramaditya Singh Vikramaditya Singh may refer to: * Vikramaditya Singh (Maharana) (1517–1534), Maharana of Mewar Kingdom from 1531–1534 * Vikramaditya Singh (politician, born 1964), Indian businessman and politician * Vikramaditya Singh (Himachal Pradesh politi ...

, serves as

Member of Legislative Assembly A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to a legislative assembly. Most often, the term refers to a subnational assembly such as that of a state, province, or territory of a country. S ...

from Shimla Rural constituency.

Political career

Pratibha Singh gained a seat in the Lok Sabha which is the

lower house A lower house is one of two Debate chamber, chambers of a Bicameralism, bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house. Despite its official position "below" the upper house, in many legislatures worldwide, the lower house has co ...

of the

Parliament of India The Parliament of India (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, IAST: ) is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. It is a bicameralism, bicameral legislature composed of the president of India and two houses: the R ...

in the Indian general elections of 2004 by defeating Maheshwar Singh. In the 2013 ( By Poll) elections, she was again elected from the same seat as well as in 2021.

Positions held

Electoral Performances

References

, - , - , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Singh, Pratibha 1956 births Living people India MPs 2004–2009 People from Mandi district Indian National Congress politicians from Himachal Pradesh People from Shimla Lok Sabha members from Himachal Pradesh India MPs 2009–2014 Women in Himachal Pradesh politics 21st-century Indian women politicians 21st-century Indian politicians Women members of the Lok Sabha India MPs 2019–present