Veer Singh Patel (born 1980) is an Indian politician and former MLA representing the Chitrakoot constituency in

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as a

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member from 2012 to 2017. He is the son of dacoit Dadua (Shiv Kumar Patel) who was killed in 2007.

Politics

Patel got active in politics after his father Dadua died in an encounter with the

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on 22 July 2007. In 2016, he got into controversy for beating up an officer from the electricity department because the officer didn't agree to forgive or reduce the bills of his supporters. Patel lost the 2017 and 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Chitrakoot and Manikpur respectively. He also lost the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Khajuraho. He got just 40,077 votes, while the winner V. D. Sharma of BJP got 8,11,135 votes.

Criminal charges

In his election affidavit of 2022, Patel mentioned that he has 11 criminal cases upon him including kidnapping. Out of 11 cases, he has been convicted in one case in 2009.

Family

His uncle

Bal Kumar Patel Bal Kumar Patel (born 1 January 1964) is an Indian politician and has served as a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Mirzapur Lok Sabha constituency, Mirzapur constituency of Uttar Pradesh and was a member of the Samajwa ...

is a former Lok Sabha MP and

Ram Singh Patel Ram Singh Patel (born 1 January 1983) is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh. He is a MLA from Patti and has served same constituency from 2012 to 2017. He lost the 2017 election by a margin of 1,476 votes and has fought all elections as ...

(MLA) is his cousin.

References

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