Daya Shankar Singh

Daya Shankar Singh is an Indian politician and a member of 18th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh representing Ballia Nagar.[1][2] He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party as well as the state vice-president of the party.[1]

Daya Shankar Singh
Minister of Transport
Government of Uttar Pradesh
Assumed office
25 March 2022
Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath
Preceded byAshok Katariya
Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
March 2022
Preceded byAnand Swaroop Shukla
ConstituencyBallia Nagar
Personal details
Born1970 or 1971 (age 52–53)[1]
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Spouse
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(m. 2001; div. 2023)​
Residence(s)Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Alma materLucknow University, (M.A, 1998)
ProfessionBusinessperson, lawyer

Personal life

Daya Shankar Singh was born to Vindyachal Singh and hails from Rajpur village in the Buxar district of Bihar.[1][3] He is a postgraduate and has a Masters of Arts in Medieval History from Lucknow University, received in 1998. Singh is a businessperson and a lawyer by profession.[1] He married politician Swati Singh on 18 May 2001 and divorced her in April 2023.[4][5] Singh lives in Lucknow.[3]

Political career

Active in the politics of Ballia, Singh started his career in 1991 by contesting in student union elections in Lucknow University as an ABVP candidate. He was the national secretary and vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha. Singh had also contested unsuccessfully from Ballia in the 2007 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.[3]

In the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Singh represented Bharatiya Janata Party as a candidate from Ballia Nagar constituency and went on to defeat Samajwadi Party's Narad Rai by a margin of 23,239 votes, succeeding own party member Anand Swaroop Shukla in the process.[6][3]

Singh assumed office as the Minister of Transport on 25 March 2022.[7][8]

References
  1. "Daya Shankar Singh(Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)):Constituency- Ballia Nagar (Balia) - Affidavit Information of Candidate". myneta.info. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  2. "Ballia Nagar Election Result 2022 LIVE Updates: Daya Shankar Singh of BJP Wins". News18. 10 March 2022. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  3. "बलिया सीट से दूसरी बार चुनावी मैदान में दयाशंकर सिंह:2007 में लड़ा पहला चुनाव, मिली हार; इस बार मंत्री आनंद स्वरूप शुक्ल को हटाकर दिया टिकट". Dainik Bhaskar. Archived from the original on 6 March 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  4. "Dayashankar Swati Divorce अलग हुए स्वाति और मंत्री दयाशंकर सिंह 22 साल बाद टूटा सात फेरों का बंधन - Divorce Between Dayashankar Singh and Swati Singh After Marriage End After 22 Years". Jagran (in Hindi). 4 April 2023. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  5. "UP transport minister Daya Shankar Singh, wife Swati get divorced". The Times of India. 5 April 2023. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  6. "Uttar Pradesh-Ballia Nagar". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 13 March 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  7. Parveen, Shafia (28 March 2022). "Yogi Adityanath's Cabinet 2.0: CM keeps home, vigilance, personnel; find who got what here". Firstpost. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  8. PTI (28 March 2022). "UP portfolios: Adityanath keeps home, Khanna gets finance". The Times of India. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
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