Ratna Singh is an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress

Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...

 party, and represents the Pratapgarh

Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh

Pratapgarh also called Bela, Bela Pratapgarh, Partapgarh or Partabgarh, is a city and nagar panchayat of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Pratapgarh district, part of the Faizabad Division...

, Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...

 constituency in the 15th Lok Sabha

15th Lok Sabha

Members of the 15th Lok Sabha were elected in 2009 during the General Elections in India.- Important members :* Speaker: Meira Kumar, Indian National Congress, Sasaram, Bihar...

. She is often informally referred to as Rajkumari (princess) or Rani (queen), since she belongs to the derecognized Kalakankar branch of the Oudh royal family.

Career

She had won from Pratapgarh in 1999, but lost the 2004 elections to Akshay Pratap Singh alias Gopalji, nephew of the criminal-politician Raghuraj Pratap Singh

Raghuraj Pratap Singh

Shubham Govil aka Raghuraj Pratap Singh, more commonly known as Raja Bhaiya is an Indian politician and belongs to Bhadri family of Kunda, Uttar Pradesh. He is currently an Independent Member of Legislative Assembly , having been elected from Kunda in the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections,...

. Ratna and Raghuraj are both related to the royal family of Oudh, but hail from different branches.

General Elections 2009

Ratna Singh regained the Pratapgarh constituency

Pratapgarh (Lok Sabha constituency)

Pratapgarh is a Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh.-Members of Parliament:*1952: Munishwar Datt Upadhyay, Indian National Congress*1957: Munishwar Datt Upadhyay, Indian National Congress*1962: Ajit Pratap Singh, Indian National Congress...

 in the Indian general elections, 2009, defeating her nearest Samajwadi Party

Samajwadi Party

Samajwadi Party is a political party in India. It is based in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It describes itself as a democratic socialist party...

 rival Prof. Shivakant Ojha, by over 30,000 votes. Akshay Pratap Singh came in third, and fourth was the noted criminal-politician Ateeq Ahmed who was fighting the elections from prison. Partly, her victory has been attributed to a re-allocation of the boundaries of the electoral district, whereby mafia don Raja Bhaiya's Kunda district was re-apportioned to a separate area.

External links

• Lok Sabha Profile Govt. of India website
• Biographical Sketch:Member of Parliament at Parliament of India
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