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Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 2024
Constituency	Uttar Pradesh
Minister of State for Home Affairs
In office 28 October 2012 – 26 May 2014Serving with M. Ramachandran
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Minister	Sushilkumar Shinde
Succeeded by	Kiren Rijiju
Minister of State for Petroleum & Natural Gas
In office 19 January 2011 – 28 October 2012
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Minister	Jaipal Reddy
Minister of State for Corporate Affairs
In office 19 January 2011 – 28 October 2012
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Minister	Murli Deora
Preceded by	Jitin Prasada
Succeeded by	Panabaka Lakshmi
Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways
In office 28 May 2009 – 19 January 2011
Prime Minister	Manmohan Singh
Minister	Kamal Nath
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office 2009–2014
Preceded by	Constituency created
Succeeded by	Rajesh Pandey
Constituency	Kushi Nagar
Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office 1996–2009
Preceded by	Baleshwar Yadav
Succeeded by	Swami Prasad Maurya
Constituency	Padrauna
Personal details
Born	(1964-04-25) 25 April 1964 (age 60) New Delhi, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party (2022-present)
Other political affiliations	Indian National Congress (1990-2022)
Spouse	Sonia Singh
Children	3
Residence(s)	Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh
Alma mater	The Doon School

Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh or R. P. N. Singh (born 25 April 1964), is an Indian politician and former Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs. He was the Member of Parliament for Kushinagar constituency in the fifteenth Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014. In the 2014 General Election, despite an increase in his own votes, he was defeated by Rajesh Pandey (BJP). He lost again in 2019. In September 2020, Singh was chosen for AICC in charge of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.

He resigned from Congress in January 2022 and joined the BJP, a month ahead of 2022 UP Elections, thus becoming the fourth prominent Doon School alumnus to leave the Congress Party to join hands with the BJP, following Jyotiraditya Scindia, Jitin Prasada and Amarinder Singh.

Personal life

R.P.N. Singh hails from a Sainthwar royal family of Kushinagar (Padrauna), Uttar Pradesh and is a Sainthwar leader from eastern Uttar Pradesh. He comes from a royal family of Padrauna. He attended The Doon School, an institution which has had historic links with Congress since the Rajiv Gandhi 'Doon Cabinet' era, and given Rahul Gandhi's own schooling at Doon. From 2014 to 2018, he served as the president of Doon's alumni body The Doon School Old Boys' Society.

He was married on 7 December 2002 to Sonia Singh (nee Sonia Singh, anchor and editorial director at NDTV), and has three daughters. He currently resides in the Palace, Padrauna, Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India. His father, Late C.P.N. Singh, was also MP of Kushinagar (then Hata) and a Minister of State for Defence in the Indira Gandhi cabinet in 1980.

R.P.N. Singh was elected MLA from the seat of Padrauna in 1996, 2002, and 2007. In 2009 he was elected to the Lok Sabha. He lost the Lok Sabha election from the Kushinagar seat in 2014 and 2019. Now he has been declared BJP candidate from Uttar Pradesh for Member of Parliament Rajya Sabha.

Positions held

• M.L.A. (Uttar Pradesh), 1996-2009
• President, Uttar Pradesh Youth Congress, 1997-1999
• Secretary, AICC, 2003-2006
• Elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from the Padrauna constituency, 2009
• Union Minister of State, Road, Transport and Highways, 2009-2011
• Union Minister of State, Petroleum and Natural Gas and Corporate Affairs, 2011-2013
• Union Minister of state for Home Affairs 2013-2014
• President, The Doon School Old Boys' Society, 2014–2016

References

1. "RPN Singh retains JPCC in-charge post". The Pioneer. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
2. "PL Puniya, RPN Singh get charge of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh". The Economic Times. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
3. "Another Senior Congress Exit: RPN Singh Joins BJP Ahead of UP Election".
4. TNI Team (26 January 2022). "4th Big Exit In 4 Years: Once MoS in UPA, Rahul Aide & Cong's RPN Singh Joins BJP". The New Indian. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
5. "Battles 'Royal' in Hindi heartland | Lucknow News - Times of India". The Times of India. 13 March 2009.
6. "How RPN Singh fits into BJP's OBC plan in UP - Times of India". The Times of India.
7. Indianexpress.com : comments : Doon squad Archived 28 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
8. "Seven Doscos in 15th Lok Sabha". 31 May 2009.
9. Steven R. Weisman (20 April 1986). "THE RAJIV GENERATION - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
10. Meat exporter Qureshi quits Doon School alumni body | The Indian Express
11. "Nervous moments for freshers at oath-taking ceremony". The Indian Express. 28 May 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
12. "Massive road communication programme proposed: Minister". Daily News & Analysis. 14 October 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
13. "Cabinet reshuffle: Congress chooses tokenism over efficiency". First Post (India). 28 October 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2012.

External links

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v t e Ministry of Home Affairs (India)
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Home secretaries	R. N. Banerjee H. V. R. Iyengar A. V. Pai B. N. Jha V. Vishwanathan L. P. Singh Govind Narain N. K. Mukherjee S. L. Khurana T. C. A. Srinivasavaradan S. M. H. Burney T. N. Chaturvedi M. M. K. Wali Prem Kumar R. D. Pradhan C. G. Somiah J. A. Kalyankrishnan Shiromani Sharma Naresh Chandra R. K. Bhargava Madhav Godbole N. N. Vohra K. Padmanabhaiah Balmiki Prasad Singh Kamal Pande N. Gopalaswami Anil Baijal Dhirendra Singh Vinod Kumar Duggal Gopal Krishna Pillai R. K. Singh Anil Goswami L. C. Goyal Rajiv Mehrishi Rajiv Gauba Ajay Kumar Bhalla (incumbent)
Home ministers	Vallabhbhai Patel Jawaharlal Nehru C. Rajagopalachari Kailash Nath Katju Govind Ballabh Pant Lal Bahadur Shastri Gulzari Lal Nanda Indira Gandhi Yashwantrao Chavan Uma Shankar Dikshit Kasu Brahmananda Reddy Charan Singh Morarji Desai Hirubhai M. Patel Zail Singh R. Venkataraman Prakash Chandra Sethi P. V. Narasimha Rao Shankarrao Chavan Buta Singh Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Chandra Shekhar Murli Manohar Joshi H. D. Deve Gowda Indrajit Gupta L. K. Advani Shivraj Patil P. Chidambaram Sushilkumar Shinde Rajnath Singh Amit Shah (incumbent)
Ministers of state for home affairs	Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh Kiren Rijiju G. Kishan Reddy (incumbent)

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v t e Second Manmohan Singh ministry
Prime Minister: Manmohan Singh
v t e Cabinet Ministers Agriculture Sharad Pawar Civil Aviation Ajit Singh Coal Shriprakash Jaiswal Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma Communications and IT Kapil Sibal Culture Chandresh Kumari Katoch Defence A. K. Antony Earth Sciences Jaipal Reddy External Affairs Salman Khurshid Finance P. Chidambaram Food Processing Industries Sharad Pawar Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad Heavy Ind. & Public Enterprises Praful Patel Home Affairs Sushilkumar Shinde Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Girija Vyas Human Resource Development Pallam Raju Labour and Employment Sis Ram Ola Law and Justice Kapil Sibal Mines Dinsha Patel Minority Affairs K. Rahman Khan New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi Parliamentary Affairs Kamal Nath Petroleum and Natural Gas Veerappa Moily Railway Mallikarjun Kharge Road Transport and Highways Oscar Fernandes Rural development Jairam Ramesh Science and Technology Jaipal Reddy Social Justice and Emp. Selja Kumari Steel Beni Prasad Verma Shipping G. K. Vasan Textiles Kavuri Samba Siva Rao Tribal Affairs Kishore Chandra Deo Urban Development Kamal Nath Water Resources Harish Rawat
v t e Ministers of State (Independent Charge) Chemicals and Fertilizers Srikant Kumar Jena Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution K. V. Thomas Corporate Affairs Sachin Pilot Development of North Eastern Region Paban Singh Ghatowar Drinking Water and Sanitation Bharatsinh Madhavsinh Solanki Environment and Forests Jayanthi Natarajan Information and Broadcasting Manish Tewari MSME K. H. Muniyappa Power Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia Statistics and Programme Implementation Srikant Kumar Jena Tourism K. Chiranjeevi Women and Child Dev. Krishna Tirath Youth Affairs and Sports Jitendra Singh
v t e Ministers of State Agriculture Charan Das Mahant, Tariq Anwar Civil Aviation K. C. Venugopal Coal Pratik Prakashbapu Patil Commerce and Industry Daggubati Purandeswari, E. M. Sudarsana Natchiappan Comm. & IT Killi Krupa Rani, Milind Murli Deora Corporate Affairs R. P. N. Singh Defence Jitendra Singh External Affairs E. Ahamed, Preneet Kaur Finance Namo Narain Meena, S. S. Palanimanickam Food Processing Ind. Charan Das Mahant Health and Family Welfare Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury, S. Gandhiselvan Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran, R. P. N. Singh Human Resource Development Jitin Prasada, Shashi Tharoor Information and Broadcasting S. Jagathrakshakan Labour and Employment Kodikunnil Suresh Minority Affairs Ninong Ering Parliamentary Affairs Paban Singh Ghatowar, Rajeev Shukla Petroleum and Natural Gas Panabaka Lakshmi, R. P. N. Singh New and Renewable Energy S. Jagathrakshakan Personnel, Public Griev. & Pensions V. Narayanasamy Planning Commission Rajeev Shukla Power K. C. Venugopal PMO V. Narayanasamy Railway Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, K. J. Surya Prakash Reddy Road Trans. & Highways Sarvey Sathyanarayana, Tushar Amarsinh Chaudhary Rural development Lal Chand Kataria, Pradeep Jain Aditya Shipping Milind Murli Deora Social Justice and Emp. Balram Naik, Manikrao Hodlya Gavit Textiles Panabaka Lakshmi Tribal Affairs Mahadeo Singh Khandela, Ranee Narah Urban Development Deepa Dasmunsi

• 1964 births
• Living people
• Members of the Cabinet of India
• The Doon School alumni
• People from Kushinagar district
• India MPs 2009–2014
• Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1997–2002
• Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2007–2012
• Lok Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh
• United Progressive Alliance candidates in the 2014 Indian general election
• Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh
• Indian National Congress politicians from Uttar Pradesh