Swati Singh | |
Birth Date: | 1 August 1978 |
Birth Place: | Bokaro, Jharkhand, India |
Office: | Minister of State (Ind. Charge) in Government of Uttar Pradesh [1] |
Term Start1: | 19 March 2017 |
Term Start2: | 18 March 2017 |
Term Start3: | October 2016 |
Term End1: | 12 March 2022 |
Term End2: | 12 March 2022 |
Term End3: | February 10, 2018 |
Party: | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Nationality: | Indian |
Spouse: | Daya Shankar Singh (m:2001;-div:2023;) |
Office2: | Member of Legislative Assembly |
Constituency2: | Sarojini Nagar |
Predecessor2: | Sharda Pratap Shukla |
Office3: | President of BJP Mahila Morcha, Uttar Pradesh |
Constituency3: | Uttar Pradesh |
Predecessor3: | Darshana Singh |
Alma Mater: | University of Lucknow (LLM) [2] |
Children: | 2 |
Profession: | Business, politician |
Successor2: | Rajeshwar Singh |
Swati Singh (born 1 August 1978) is an Indian politician and Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Women welfare NRI, Flood Control, Agriculture export, Agriculture Marketing, Agriculture Foreign Trade and state minister in the Ministry of Women Welfare, Family Welfare, Maternity and Child Welfare in the Government of Uttar Pradesh.
She came in an active field of politics after her husband Daya Shankar Singh got expelled from the post of vice-president of Bhartiya Janta Party for six years after a comment on BSP Chief Mayawati in a public meeting in September 2016. On 12 March 2017, the BJP revoked her husband's expulsion.[3]
In 2017, she got elected as Member of Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh from Sarojini Nagar, Lucknow as a Bharatiya Janta Party candidate. She got 1,08,506 votes in this election.[4] She became Minister of State (Independent Charge) in Yogi Adityanath's cabinet.[1]
She was appointed to the ministries of NRI, Flood control, Agriculture Marketing and Export, Women Welfare, Maternal and Child welfare.
She also served as president of Uttar Pradesh BJP Mahila Morcha, a women's wing of Bharatiya Janata Party from October 2016 to February 2018.[5] [6]
In November 2019, she was riled up in case in which purported audio clip was released where she was heard allegedly threatening a police officer in Lucknow to drop an FIR against Ansal Builders. She goes on to ask the CO Binu Singh to sit with her to resolve the matter if she wanted to continue working in Lucknow.[7] She was denied ticket by the party in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.