Ram Singh Patel (born 1 January 1983) is an Indian politician from

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. 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 as a

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 ...

member. In the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, he defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Rajendra Pratap Singh by a margin of 22,051 votes.

Personal life and education

Ram Singh Patel is the son of

Bal Kumar Patel Bal Kumar Patel (born 1 January 1964) is an Indian politician and has served as a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Mirzapur Lok Sabha constituency, Mirzapur constituency of Uttar Pradesh and was a member of the Samajwa ...

, former Lok Sabha MP from

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. Ram Patel is the nephew of

Shiv Kumar Patel Shiv Kumar Patel or Dadua (died 22 July 2007) was a notorious criminal and dacoit who operated in ravines and forests on the borders between the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Dadua’s gang was known to possess sophisticat ...

(Dadua) who died on 22 July 2007 in a police encounter. He attended Feroze Gandhi College where he obtained a

Master of Arts A Master of Arts ( or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA or AM) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Those admitted to the degree have ...

degree. He also studied at Narvadeshwar Law College, Lucknow and received a

Bachelor of Laws A Bachelor of Laws (; LLB) is an undergraduate law degree offered in most common law countries as the primary law degree and serves as the first professional qualification for legal practitioners. This degree requires the study of core legal subje ...

degree.

References

Indian National Congress politicians from Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2012–2017 Living people Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University alumni Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2022–2027 1983 births {{UttarPradesh-INC-politician-stub