Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh or R. P. N. Singh (born 25 April 1964), is an Indian politician and former Minister of State in the

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. He was the Member of Parliament for Kushinagar constituency in the fifteenth Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014. In the 2014 General Election, despite an increase in his own votes, he was defeated by Rajesh Pandey (BJP). He lost again in 2019. In September 2020, Singh was chosen for

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in charge of

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and

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. He resigned from Congress in January 2022 and joined the

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, a month ahead of 2022 UP Elections, thus becoming the fourth prominent

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alumnus to leave the Congress Party to join hands with the

, following

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and

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Personal life

R.P.N. Singh hails from a Sainthwar royal family of

Kushinagar Kushinagar ( Hindustani: or ; Pali: ; Sanskrit: ) is a town in the Kushinagar district in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is an important and popular Buddhist pilgrimage site, where Buddhists believe Gautama Buddha attained ''parinirvana''. Etymo ...

(Padrauna),

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and is a Sainthwar leader from eastern Uttar Pradesh. He comes from a royal family of Padrauna. He attended

The Doon School The Doon School (informally Doon School or Doon) is a selective all-boys boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, which was established in 1935. It was envisioned by Satish Ranjan Das, a lawyer from Calcutta, who prevised a school mode ...

, an institution which has had historic links with Congress since the Rajiv Gandhi 'Doon Cabinet' era, and given Rahul Gandhi's own schooling at Doon. From 2014 to 2018, he served as the president of Doon's alumni body

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. He was married on 7 December 2002 to

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(nee Sonia Singh, anchor and editorial director at NDTV), and has three daughters. He currently resides in the Palace,

Padrauna Padrauna is a city and headquarter of Kushinagar district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the place where Rama spent a few days of his life. After passing from Padrauna, Rama reached at Ramkola where he made a hut with his wife Sita ...

, India. His father, Late C.P.N. Singh, was also MP of Kushinagar (then Hata) and a Minister of State for Defence in the Indira Gandhi cabinet in 1980. R.P.N. Singh was elected MLA from the seat of Padrauna in 1996, 2002, and 2007. In 2009 he was elected to the Lok Sabha. He lost the Lok Sabha election from the Kushinagar seat in 2014 and 2019.

Positions held

* M.L.A. (Uttar Pradesh), 1996-2009 * President, Uttar Pradesh Youth Congress, 1997-1999 * Secretary, AICC, 2003-2006 * Elected to the 15th

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from the

constituency, 2009 * Union Minister of State, Road, Transport and Highways, 2009-2011 * Union Minister of State, Petroleum and Natural Gas and Corporate Affairs, 2011-2013 * Union Minister of state for Home Affairs 2013-2014 * President,

, 2014–2016

References

External links

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