Chaudhary Bhupendra Singh | |
Office: | President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttar Pradesh |
Term Start: | 25 August 2022 |
Predecessor: | Swatantra Dev Singh |
Office1: | Minister of Panchayati Raj Government of Uttar Pradesh |
Term Start1: | 19 March 2017 |
Term End1: | 30 August 2022 |
1Blankname1: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata1: | Yogi Adityanath |
Office2: | Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council |
Term Start2: | 7 July 2016 |
Predecessor2: | Hriday Narayan Dikshit |
Constituency2: | elected by Legislative Assembly members |
Birth Date: | 30 June 1966 |
Birth Place: | Mahendari Sikandarpur, Uttar Pradesh, India |
Party: | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Profession: | Politician |
Nationality: | Indian |
Chaudhary Bhupendra Singh is an Indian Politician who is the current and 14th state president of Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh and cabinet minister for Panchayati Raj in Uttar Pradesh Government .[1] He hails from Moradabad in Western UP.[2] [3]
On 10 June 2016, he was elected to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council.[4]
Bhupendra Singh was born in Mahendra Sikanderpur village in the Thana Chajalat area of Moradabad district in 1966 to a Jat farmer family.[5] He passed the 12th examination from RN Inter College, Moradabad.
Bhupendra Singh joined the Vishwa Hindu Parishad as a student leader and went on to join the BJP in 1991. Two years later, in 1993, he became a member of the BJP's district executive. In 2006, he was made the regional minister of Moradabad by the BJP and was made the regional chief of the party in 2012.[6]