Kripashankar Singh
Kripashankar Singh | |
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Kalina | |
| Minister of State for Home Affairs (Maharashtra) | |
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| Born | Kripashankar Singh BJP |
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| Parent | Thakur Ramniranjan Singh |
| Residence(s) | Pali Hill, Mumbai |
Kripashankar Singh is a senior Indian politician with the
Early life
Singh hails from a prominent Rajput family in Jaunpur Uttar Pradesh. He migrated to Mumbai for work. He performed odd jobs to make ends meet as a migrant. These experiences shaped his political views about hardships faced by migrants.
Political career
He subsequently joined Indian National Congress and rose through the ranks to become a powerful figure by the 2004 elections, when he was assigned the cabinet seat as Minister of State for Home in First Vilasrao Deshmukh ministry from October 1999 to January 2003. He became a MLA from Vile Parle in 1999. In 2009, Singh was elected to the assembly from the newly-created Kalina constituency but came third in 2014 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election.[1]
On 7 July 2021, Singh joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. He had quit the Indian National Congress in 2019 over its decision to oppose the NDA government’s policy on Jammu and Kashmir, and leadeship conundrum in Congress.
In March 2024, He was named as a
References
- ^ "Maharashtra: Ex-Congress Minister Kripashankar Singh Joins BJP". Moneycontrol. Retrieved 7 July 2021.