Surendra Nath Singh (born 1 October 1962) is an Indian politician and was a member of 17th Legislative Assembly of

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. He represented the

Bairia Bairia is a nagar panchayat in Bairia tehsil in Ballia District of Uttar Pradesh State, India. It belongs to Azamgarh Division. It is located 35 km to the east of the district headquarters Ballia. It is a block headquarters and tehsil he ...

constituency in Ballia district of

and as a member of the

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but switched to Vikassheel Insaan Party to fight the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Elections.

Early life and education

Singh was born 1 October 1962 in

Bairiya Bairiya is a village which come under Khairahani Municipality, ward no. 13, in Chitwan in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2936 people living in 527 individual households. Bu ...

, Ballia district,

to his father Ramnarayan Singh. In 1986, he married Jayamala Singh, they have one son and two daughters. He belongs to Kshatriya community. In 1992, he got degree of Master of Education from

Himachal Pradesh University Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) is an Indian public state university at Summer Hill in the state capital city Shimla. It is close to the vicinity of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study. It is wholly financed by the government of Himachal ...

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and in 1994, he received a degree in

Master of Arts A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Tho ...

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from Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur.

Political career

Since 2017, he represents

constituency as an MLA of

Bhartiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

. He defeated

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candidate Jai Prakash Anchal by a margin of 17,077 votes.

Controversy

In April 2018, Surendra Nath Singh defended rape accused

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by saying that a mother of three children cannot get raped. In May 2021, he claimed that

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will guarantee protection from the novel

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. On 16 October 2019, BJP leader's daughter accused him of harassment for marrying the son of another politician.

Crime

He has 8 criminal cases registered against Surendra Nath Singh as of 2019 and all these cases are under trial.

Posts held

References

Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2017–2022 Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh Living people People from Ballia district 1962 births {{UttarPradesh-BJP-politician-stub Himachal Pradesh University alumni