Dinesh Pratap Singh

Some Lesser Known Facts About Dinesh Pratap Singh

• He hails from a family of politicians, where 5 members are involved in politics. His brother, Awadhesh Singh has been a head of the local district Panchayat of Raebareli.

  

• His family home is named  ‘Panchvati,’ and all his 4 brothers live as a joint family with Dinesh’s family.

• Dinesh is second among the five brothers. His elder brother Ganesh Pratap Singh owns a business of brick kilns, and his second brother, Awadhesh Pratap Singh, manages a school (Mahaveer Study State) and a college (Mahaveer Institute of Technology & Management).

• Mahaveer Study Estate was founded in 2009 at Haidargarh Road, Maharajganj (Raebareli) under the Society named Shri Mahaveer Singh Jan Kalyan Sewa Sansthan. The Mission of Shri Mahaveer Singh Jan Kalyan Sewa Sansthan is to promote Senior Secondary education among children in the nearby villages.

  

• His fourth brother, Brajesh Pratap Singh is the Managing Director of ‘Malvika Cements Pvt. Ltd.’ and ‘DPS Contractors Pvt. Ltd.’ and his fifth brother Rakesh Singh is an MLA from the Harchandpur Assembly and also operates many other industries like Floor Mills, Rice Mills etc.

• Under the Indian National Congress, Dinesh Pratap Singh remained a member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council from 2010-2016. The party suspended him in 2017 for misbehaving with Manoj Paswan, the General Secretary of the Raebareli Congress Committee. He has also misbehaved with some other local political leaders of the Congress party.

• In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he lost in the contest against Sonia Gandhi from Raebareli; however, his vote score of 38% out of the total vote score was the highest that any rival candidate had won in Raebareli against Sonia Gandhi until then.

• In 2022, Dinesh Pratap Singh was appointed Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Horticulture Agriculture Marketing Agriculture Foreign Trade and Agriculture Export Department in the Uttar Pradesh government, led by Yogi Adityanath.

• Dinesh Pratap Singh was declared as the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) candidate from Raebareli for the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections, against its rival Rahul Gandhi from the Indian National Congress (INC).