Omprakash Singh (born 13 May 1959) is an Indian politician. He has been elected as an MLA representing

Zamania Zamania is a town in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Its municipal council is subordinate to the Ghazipur district, Ghazipur District. It is also the administrative head of Zamania tehsil,. It is also a very historical town, it derives its ...

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. He has been elected for the 7th term. He has also represented

Ghazipur Ghazipur, is a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Ghazipur city is the administrative headquarters of the Ghazipur district, one of the four districts that form the Varanasi division of Uttar Pradesh. It is located on the Ganges (Ganga) ...

in the

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from 1998 to 1999. He is a member of the

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; ) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India. It was founded on 4 October 1992 by former Janata Dal politician Mulayam Singh Yadav and is headquartered in New Delhi. It is the third-largest political party in ...

Political career

In his two years as an MP, he was a member of the Committee on Commerce and its Sub-Committee on Textiles. From 2003 to 2007 he was the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister for Irrigation, and then from 2012 to 2017 he was the Cabinet Minister for Tourism in the Akhilesh Yadav ministry. He was also a member of the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Coal, the Railway Convention Committee, and the committee to review the rate of dividend payable by the Railway Undertakings to General Revenues. In 2012, he was elected to the

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, representing

, while remaining a cabinet minister in the Uttar Pradesh Government for the

References

Living people 1959 births Politicians from Ghazipur Samajwadi Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2012–2017 Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2022–2027 State cabinet ministers of Uttar Pradesh {{UttarPradesh-SP-politician-stub