Vinod Kumar Singh alias Pandit Singh (7 January 1962 – 7 May 2021) was an Indian politician from the state of Uttar Pradesh. A three-time legislator and a senior member of the

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, Pandit Singh represented Gonda assembly constituency in the 13th, 14th and 16th

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which is the

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of the

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legislature of

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. He also served as a cabinet minister in the Govt. of Uttar Pradesh under the chief ministership of

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. He also contested the 2019 parliamentary elections from Gonda but lost to

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of BJP. He died on 7 May 2021 from

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related complications at the age of 59 years. A number of politicians including Hriday Narayan Dikshit- the then Speaker of

and

- national president of the

have expressed grief at his demise.

Political career

His political career was started in 1995. In the year of 1996 first time he was elected as an MLA of Gonda assembly constituency. In 2003 he was made the minister of state of Medical & Education in the cabinet of Mulayam Singh Yadav. In the year of 2012 he was again elected as MLA of Gonda seat and served as Minister of Revenue in the cabinet of

. In October 2013 he resigned from minister post and later he became Minister of Secondary Education of UP. In 2014 he contested from

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and get defeated by Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh and later he served as Minister of Agriculture.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Singh, Vinod Kumar 2021 deaths Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1997–2002 Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2002–2007 Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2007–2012 Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2012–2017 Samajwadi Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India People from Gonda district 1962 births