Swati Singh

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Swati Singh (born 1 August 1978) is an Indian politician and Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Women welfare NRI, Flood Control, Agriculture export, Agriculture Marketing, Agriculture Foreign Trade and state minister in the Ministry of Women Welfare, Family Welfare, Maternity and Child Welfare in the Government of Uttar Pradesh.

Swati Singh
Minister of State (Ind. Charge) in Government of Uttar Pradesh [1]
In office 19 March 2017 – 12 March 2022
Member of Legislative Assembly
In office 18 March 2017 – 12 March 2022
Preceded by	Sharda Pratap Shukla
Succeeded by	Rajeshwar Singh
Constituency	Sarojini Nagar
President of BJP Mahila Morcha, Uttar Pradesh
In office October 2016 – February 10, 2018
Preceded by	Darshana Singh
Constituency	Uttar Pradesh
Personal details
Born	(1978-08-01) 1 August 1978 (age 46) Bokaro, Jharkhand, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse	Daya Shankar Singh (m:2001;-div:2023;)
Children	2
Alma mater	University of Lucknow (LLM) [2]
Profession	Business, politician

Education

• M.M.S. in 2001 from University of Allahabad^[2]
• L.L.M. in 2007 from the University of Lucknow^[2]

Political life

She came in an active field of politics after her husband Daya Shankar Singh got expelled from the post of vice-president of Bhartiya Janta Party for six years after a comment on BSP Chief Mayawati in a public meeting in September 2016. On 12 March 2017, the BJP revoked her husband's expulsion.^[3]

In 2017, she got elected as Member of Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh from Sarojini Nagar, Lucknow as a Bharatiya Janta Party candidate. She got 1,08,506 votes in this election.^[4] She became Minister of State (Independent Charge) in Yogi Adityanath's cabinet.^[1]

She was appointed to the ministries of NRI, Flood control, Agriculture Marketing and Export, Women Welfare, Maternal and Child welfare.^[5]

She also served as president of Uttar Pradesh BJP Mahila Morcha, a women's wing of Bharatiya Janata Party from October 2016 to February 2018.^[6][7]

In November 2019, she was riled up in case in which purported audio clip was released where she was heard allegedly threatening a police officer in Lucknow to drop an FIR against Ansal Builders. She goes on to ask the CO Binu Singh to sit with her to resolve the matter if she wanted to continue working in Lucknow.^[8] She was denied ticket by the party in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.