Sanjay Singh

Some Lesser Known Facts About Sanjay Singh

• Sanjay Singh is a social activist and worked for the rights of hawkers for 16 years before joining the Aam Aadmi Party.

• He did his first ‘Andolan’, fighting for the rights of the people and against the practice of corruption in Keonjhar, Odisha, India.

• 1994, he started an organisation called ‘Sultanpur Samaj Sewa Sangathan’. He started working amongst the poor, organizing blood donation camps, health camps and campaigning for people’s rights.

• He also worked with the ‘Azad Sewa Samiti’, which later became a part of the National Hawkers’ Association.

• He is known as the ‘Sankat Mochan’ of the Aam Aadmi Party and he emerged as a trusted lieutenant of Aam Aadmi Party. He has emerged as the proprietor when it comes to tricky negotiations and conflict resolution.

• In 2002, He began working with Sandeep Pandey, and through their 2007 anti-Coca Cola agitation got associated with Medha Patkar, Ashgar Ali Engineer (Social Activist) and Ram Punyani ( former professor, IIT Bombay).

• In 2011, he worked with Arvind Kejriwal after getting associated with Anna Hazare’s campaign of India Against Corruption (IAC). He was asked to lead a five-day protest in Sultanpur, Rae Bareli and Amethi and when the campaign took its momentum, he was inducted as one of the National Executives of India Against Corruption.

• To establish the image of Aam Aadmi Party at the grass-roots level, he travelled many kilometres in the States of Uttar Pradesh and Punjab to lead the party promotions.

• Until 2017, he had never contested any elections. However, he actively participated in various State Assembly Elections supporting the candidates of Aam Aadmi Party.

• In 2018, he got the nomination of the Upper House of the Indian Democracy for the Rajya Sabha elections.

• Sanjay Singh was elected unopposed as the Member of Rajya Sabha from Delhi in January 2024.