Ratna Singh

Rajkumari Ratna Singh
Rajkumari Ratna Singh
Member of Parliament; for Pratapgarh
	In office; 2009-2014
Preceded by	Akshay Pratap Singh
Succeeded by	Harivansh Singh
Personal details
Born	29 April 1959; New Delhi, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Parents	Raja Dinesh Singh

Ratna Singh (born 29 April 1959) is an Indian politician, daughter of former minister Dinesh Singh. She has been elected from Pratapgarh to Lok Sabha thrice as Congress member. But after coming third in two consecutive Lok Sabha election (2014 and 2019) on Congress ticket, she joined Bharatiya Janata Party in October 2019. [1]

Career

She had won from Pratapgarh in 1999, but lost the 2004 elections to Akshay Pratap Singh alias Gopalji, Ratna and Raghuraj are both related to the but hail from different branches.[2]

Ratna Singh regained the Pratapgarh constituency in the 2009 Indian general elections, defeating her nearest Samajwadi Party rival Prof. Shivakant Ojha, by over 30,000 votes.[3] 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.[4]

Subsequently, in the 2014 (16th)Lok Sabha elections she was trounced by Harivansh Singh of Apna Dal.

References

"Big jolt to Congress! Three-time Pratapgarh MP Ratna Singh joins BJP in presence of CM Adityanath". The Financial Express. 15 October 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
"Erstwhile rajas in poll race". The Hindu. 23 March 2009.
http://ibnlive.in.com/politics/electionresults/constituency/24/24/pratapgarh.html Pratapgragh] CNN IBN
"Who will clean up filthy and feudal Pratapgarh? - Lok Sabha Election news - Rediff.com". Election.rediff.com. 23 April 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2014.

External links

Lok Sabha Profile Govt. of India website
Biographical Sketch:Member of Parliament at Parliament of India website.

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[1] "Big jolt to Congress! Three-time Pratapgarh MP Ratna Singh joins BJP in presence of CM Adityanath". The Financial Express. 15 October 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2020.

[2] "Erstwhile rajas in poll race". The Hindu. 23 March 2009.

[3] ttp://ibnlive.in.com/politics/electionresults/constituency/24/24/pratapgarh.html Pratapgragh] CNN IBN

[rediff-4] "Who will clean up filthy and feudal Pratapgarh? - Lok Sabha Election news - Rediff.com". Election.rediff.com. 23 April 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2014.