Rajendra Pratap Singh (born 20 October 1954), popularly known as Moti Singh, is an Indian politician affiliated with the

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. He represents Patti

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of Pratapgarh district. He has been elected as the

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from the same constituency for four times in a row. In his fourth attempt for re-election there were errors in counting, which was later cleared by the high court (Rajendra Pratap Singh aka Moti Singh vs Ram Singh and others, 9 August 2016). The then MLA was removed and the seat was left vacant after the decision of High Court (Lucknow Bench). He won the 2017 elections from the same seat and became a

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in the 2017

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Cabinet. Previously, Shri. Singh served as

state

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in 2003. He was cabinet minister in

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Personal life

Singh was born to Bharat Singh on 20 October 1954 in

Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh Pratapgarh, also called Belha or Bela Pratapgarh, is a town and municipality in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. It is the administrative headquarters of Pratapgarh district, part of the Prayagraj division, formerly known as Allahabad. ...

, India. He holds

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degree and studied law from

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. He is an agriculturalist, industrialist and businessman. He married Urmila Singh on 28 May 1973. They have three daughters and a son.

Political career

Singh's political career was started in 1983 when he was elected as Block Pramukh (Block chief) from Mangraura for the first time, which created record of securing maximum votes in district Pratapgarh. In 1988, he re-elected in block Pramukh election. He became a member of

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from Pratapgarh district in 1990. Moti Singh is member of Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha from 1996 to 2007, winning 1996, 2002, 2007 and 2017 elections. He has been appointed a cabinet minister on 19 March 2017. Rajendra alias Moti Singh contested

assembly election 1989 from Indian National Congress Party and unsuccessfully he lost and

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's candidate Ram Lakhan won by margin 35.44% votes. Moti claimed that he had not lost election 1989, due to some technical problem his votes were not counted properly, still case is pending in a court on the issue of assembly election 1989. Moti Singh won a seat from a

ticket and elected as

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in 1996 from Patti, Uttar Pradesh. he re-elected as

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from the same constituency in 2002. He was state

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in 2003. Moti Singh won again in 2007 Assembly Election with 29.74% of votes gain for

in Patti, Uttar Pradesh constituency. He lost to

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candidate

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 the same constituency from 2012 to 2017. He lost the 2017 election by a margin of 1,476 votes and has fought all elections ...

in 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, in 2017 election he again won against Samajwadi Party's Ram Singh Patel by 14,76 votes. In the 2022, he again lost to Samajwadi Party candidate

by a margin of 22,051 votes.

References

External links

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Member Profile

Rajendra Pratap Singh
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Personal life

Political career

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