Samaresh Singh (Rohini Acharya’s

Some Lesser Known Facts About Samaresh Singh

• From December 1998 to December 2005, Samaresh Singh served as a Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services.

• In June 2007, he started working as an Investment Banking Associate at Merrill Lynch Investment Banking in Singapore and Jakarta. He served in the position till March 2009.

• In June 2009, Samaresh Singh joined GMR Infrastructure (S) Private Limited as a Business Development Associate. He was tasked with identifying investment opportunities in the natural resources and infrastructure sectors of Southeast Asia. He served in the position till July 2010.

• From July 2010 to July 2017, he served as an M&A Executive Director at Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore.

• In 2017, Samaresh Singh began working as the Managing Director for Investment Banking, Mergers and Acquisitions at Evercore in Singapore.

• His father, Ranvijay Singh, is a retired income tax officer and was a close college friend of Lalu Prasad Yadav, a former Indian politician.

• After marriage, he, along with his wife, Rohini Acharya, first moved from India to the United States. Later, they settled in Singapore.

  

• In November 2025, Samaresh Singh came into the limelight when a controversy arose involving his wife, Rohini Acharya, and her kidney donation to her father, Lalu Prasad Yadav, when he was sick.

• Rohini Acharya, in a social media post, announced that she was ending her relationships with her family and stepping away from politics after the RJD’s huge defeat in the Bihar elections.

• Her family accused her of buying an election ticket in exchange for donating her kidney, calling it “a dirty kidney.”

• She said in the post that she felt guilty and sinned for donating her kidney to her father instead of prioritising her husband and children.

• Rohini Acharya admitted that she did not seek permission from her husband, Samaresh Singh, or her in-laws before donating the kidney. She wrote,
  

  For me, it became a huge sin that I didn’t look after my family, my three children, didn’t take permission from my husband or my in-laws when donating the kidney… I did what I did to save my god, my father, and today it’s been called dirty… May none of you ever make a mistake like mine, may no family ever have a daughter like Rohini.”

  

• When Lalu’s kidney was damaged, Rohini Acharya claimed that Samaresh Singh wanted to donate his kidney to Lalu Yadav. Both Samaresh and Rohini underwent medical tests at a hospital in Singapore.

• However, Samaresh could not donate his kidney because he has a heart problem.

• He likes travelling to distant places in his free time.