Rajkumari Ratna Singh (born 29 April 1959) is an Indian politician, daughter of former minister Dinesh Singh. She has been elected MP from Pratapgarh to

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thrice from

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party in 1996, 1999 and 2009. But after coming third in two consecutive Lok Sabha elections (2014 and 2019) on Congress ticket, she left to join

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in October 2019.

Career

She had won from Pratapgarh in 1999, but lost the 2004 elections to

Akshay Pratap Singh Akshay Pratap Singh alias Gopal Ji (born 14 April 1970) is an Indian politician from Pratapgarh (Lok Sabha constituency) in Uttar Pradesh. He is the member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. He has been elected as a MLC for the fifth consec ...

alias Gopalji. Ratna and

Raghuraj Pratap Singh Raghuraj Pratap Singh, (born 31 October 1969), commonly known as Raja Bhaiya, is an Indian politician, currently serving as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (India), Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the 18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly, ...

are both related but hail from different branches. Ratna Singh regained the Pratapgarh constituency in the

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, defeating her nearest

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rival Prof. Shivakant Ojha, by over 30,000 votes. Akshay Pratap Singh came in third, and fourth was the noted criminal-politician Ateeq Ahmed who was fighting the elections from prison. Partly, her victory has been attributed to a re-allocation of the boundaries of the electoral district, whereby Raja Bhaiya's Kunda district was re-apportioned to a separate area. Subsequently, in the

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she was defeated by Harivansh Singh of

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Personal life

She is the youngest daughter of former Minister of External Affairs Dinesh Singh. She is married to Jaisingh Sisodia of

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. The couple have a son, Bhuvanyu Singh and a daughter Tanushree Kumari.

References

External links

Lok Sabha Profile

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