| Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh | |
| Birth Date: | 25 April 1964 |
| Birth Place: | New Delhi, India |
| Residence: | Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh |
| Alma Mater: | The Doon School |
| Office: | Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha |
| Term Start: | 2024 |
| Constituency: | Uttar Pradesh |
| Office1: | Minister of State for Home Affairs |
| Successor1: | Kiren Rijiju |
| Minister1: | Sushilkumar Shinde |
| Primeminister1: | Manmohan Singh |
| Alongside1: | M. Ramachandran |
| Term Start1: | 28 October 2012 |
| Term End1: | 26 May 2014 |
| Office2: | Minister of State for Petroleum & Natural Gas |
| Term Start2: | 19 January 2011 |
| Term End2: | 28 October 2012 |
| Minister2: | Jaipal Reddy |
| Primeminister2: | Manmohan Singh |
| Office3: | Minister of State for Corporate Affairs |
| Term Start3: | 19 January 2011 |
| Term End3: | 28 October 2012 |
| Predecessor3: | Jitin Prasada |
| Successor3: | Panabaka Lakshmi |
| Minister3: | Murli Deora |
| Primeminister3: | Manmohan Singh |
| Office4: | Minister of State for Road Transport & Highways |
| Term Start4: | 28 May 2009 |
| Term End4: | 19 January 2011 |
| Minister4: | Kamal Nath |
| Primeminister4: | Manmohan Singh |
| Office5: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
| Term Start5: | 2009 |
| Term End5: | 2014 |
| Successor5: | Rajesh Pandey |
| Predecessor5: | Constituency created |
| Office6: | Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly |
| Term Start6: | 1996 |
| Term End6: | 2009 |
| Constituency6: | Padrauna |
| Predecessor6: | Baleshwar Yadav |
| Successor6: | Swami Prasad Maurya |
| Party: | Bharatiya Janata Party (2022-present) |
| Otherparty: | Indian National Congress (1990-2022) |
| Spouse: | Sonia Singh |
| Children: | 3 |
| Constituency5: | Kushi Nagar |
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[1] and Chhattisgarh.[2]
He resigned from Congress in January 2022 and joined the BJP, a month ahead of 2022 UP Elections,[3] 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.[4]
R.P.N. Singh hails from a Sainthwar royal family[5] of Kushinagar (Padrauna), Uttar Pradesh and is a Sainthwar leader from eastern Uttar Pradesh. He comes from a royal family of Padrauna.[6] He attended The Doon School,[7] 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.[8] [9] From 2014 to 2018, he served as the president of Doon's alumni body The Doon School Old Boys' Society.[10]
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.