Chaudhary Bhupendra Singh

Chaudhary Bhupendra Singh is an Indian Politician who is the current and 14th state president of Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh and former cabinet minister for Panchayati Raj in Uttar Pradesh Government .^[1] He hails from Moradabad in Western UP.^[2][3]

Chaudhary Bhupendra Singh
Bhupendra Singh at BJP Office, Lucknow
President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttar Pradesh
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 August 2022
Preceded by	Swatantra Dev Singh
Cabinet Minister Government of Uttar Pradesh
In office 19 March 2017 – 30 August 2022
Chief Minister	Yogi Adityanath
Ministry & Department's	Panchayati Raj
Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 July 2016
Preceded by	Hriday Narayan Dikshit
Constituency	elected by Legislative Assembly members
Personal details
Born	(1968-06-30) 30 June 1968 (age 57) Mahendari Sikandarpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Profession	Politician

On 10 June 2016, he was elected to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council.^[4]

Early life

Bhupendra Singh was born in Mahendra Sikanderpur village in the Thana Chajalat area of Moradabad district in 1966 to a farmer family of Jat descent.^[5][6][7] He passed the 12th examination from RN Inter College, Moradabad.

Early political career

Bhupendra Singh joined the Vishwa Hindu Parishad as a student leader and went on to join the BJP in 1991. Two years later, in 1993, he became a member of the BJP's district executive. In 2006, he was made the regional minister of Moradabad by the BJP and was made the regional chief of the party in 2012.^[8]