Swati Singh is an Indian politician and Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Woman welfare NRI, Flood Control, Agriculture export, Agriculture Marketing, Agriculture Foreign Trade and state minister in the Ministry of Women Welfare, Family Welfare, Maternity and Child Welfare in the

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Education

* M.M.S. in 2001 from

University of Allahabad , mottoeng = "As Many Branches So Many Trees" , established = , type = Public , chancellor = Ashish Chauhan , vice_chancellor = Sangita Srivastava , head_label ...

* L.L.M. in 2007 from the

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Political life

She came in an active field of politics after her husband Daya Shankar Singh got expelled from the post of vice-president of Bhartiya Janta Party and party both for six years after a comment on BSP Chief Mayawati in a public meeting in September 2016. On 12 March 2017, the BJP revoked her husband's expulsion. In 2017, she got elected as Member of Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh from Sarojani Nagar,

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as a

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candidate. She got 1,08,506 votes in this election. She became Minister of State (independent charge) in the cabinet of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. She was appointed to the ministries of NRI, Flood control, Agriculture Marketing and Export, Women Welfare, Maternal and child welfare. She also served as president of

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BJP Mahila Morcha, a women's wing of

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from October 2016 to February 2018. In November 2019,she was riled up in case in which purported audio clip was released where she was heard allegedly threatening a police officer in Lucknow to drop an FIR against Ansal Builders. She goes on to ask the CO Binu Singh to sit with her to resolve the matter if she wanted to continue working in Lucknow.

References

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