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Jai Pratap Singh
Indian politician (born 1953) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jai Pratap Singh (born 7 September 1953) is an Indian politician serving as the Minister of Medical and Health, Family Welfare, Mother and Child Welfare in the Yogi Adityanath ministry of the Uttar Pradesh Government.[1] He is a member of 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh and was a member of 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 16th Legislative Assemblies of Uttar Pradesh. He is a member of Bharatiya Janta Party. He was elected to Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly seven times from Bansi constituency of Siddharthnagar district.[2][3][4]
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Personal life
Singh was born on 7 September 1953 to Raja Rudra Pratap Singh in Dumraon, Bihar.[2] He completed his Higher Secondary studies from Mayo College, Ajmer in 1970 and graduated with Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from KC College, Bombay in 1974.[3] Singh married Basundhara Kumari on 19 January 1983, with whom he has two sons. He is a farmer by profession and is a resident of Rajmahal, Bansi, Siddharthnagar district.[2][3][5]
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Political career
Jai Pratap Singh has been a MLA seven straight times. Since 1989, he represented the Bansi (Assembly constituency) as a member of the Bhartiya Janata Party.[3][2]
In Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh (2017) elections, he defeated his nearest rival Samajwadi Party candidate Lal Ji by a margin of 18,942 votes.[6] After winning for seventh time, he was appointed Cabinet minister of Excise and Liquor Prohibition in Government of Uttar Pradesh.[7]
On 21 August 2019, After first cabinet expansion of Yogi Adityanath his ministry department changed as Minister of Medical and Health, Family Welfare, Mother and Child Welfare.[8]
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