Dhan Singh Negi

Last updated

Anita Negi
​
(m. 2000)​
Dhan Singh Negi
धन सिंह नेगी
Dhan Singh Negi1.jpg
Member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
In office
12 March 2017 –10 March 2022
Children2
Residence(s) New Tehri, Uttarakhand Dehradun, Uttarakhand
Education M.Sc.(Physics), B.Ed.
Alma mater Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University
ProfessionPolitician
Website dhansinghnegi.com

Dhan Singh Negi is an Indian politician who was a member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from 2017 to 2022 representing the Tehri constituency in Tehri Garhwal district. Previously affiliated to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he switched to the Indian National Congress party (INC) in early 2022. [3] [4] In the 2017 state assembly elections, he defeated Dinesh Dhanai, [5] then Cabinet Minister by a large margin.

Contents

Early life and education

Dhan Singh Negi was born in 1970 as the youngest child of a poor family in Palkot, a remote village in Patti Lamridhar, Tehri Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh (now Uttarakhand), India. His education includes a Master of Physics at Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University and a Bachelor of Education teaching qualification. He was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 2019.

Career

Negi worked as a lecturer in Physics before becoming a full-time politician. He was a member of Badri-Kedar Temple Committee and was chairman of the Aanchal Milk Cooperative Society in Tehri Garhwal from 2009 to 2012. He was elected to the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly in 2017, receiving 20,896 votes, defeating Dinesh Dhanai, then cabinet minister by a margin of 6,840 votes. [6] In April 2017 he declared that he would donate half of his salary to support the marriages of daughters of widows, disabled and poor people. [7]

He also presided over the Public Sector Units & Municipal Oversight and the Information Technology Policy committees of the Uttarakhand Assembly. Negi is a member of the board of Doon University and the Uttarakhand State Wildlife Board.

Positions held

YearDescription
2009-2012Elected as Chairman for Aanchal Milk Corporative Society (1st term)
2017-2022Elected to 4th Uttarakhand Assembly (1st term)
  • Member - Committee of Public Sector Units & Municipal Oversight
  • Member - Committee of Information Technology Policy
  • Member - Doon University & Uttarakhand State Wildlife Board

Legislative Assembly Elections contested

YearConstituencyResultVote percentageOpposition CandidateOpposition PartyOpposition vote percentage
2022 Tehri Lost13.64% Kishore Upadhyaya BJP 42.31%
2017 Tehri Won47.6% Dinesh Dhanai Independent 32.03%
2012 Tehri Lost24.3% Dinesh Dhanai Independent 28.8%

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dhan Singh Rawat</span> Indian politician

Dhan Singh Rawat is the Cabinet Minister of Uttarakhand and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Uttarakhand, representing the constituency of Srinagar Garhwal.

Lt. Col. Maharaja Manabendra Shah was a member of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Tehri Garhwal constituency of Uttarakhand and was a member of the Indian National Congress before joining the Bharatiya Jan Sangh and later the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party. He became one of the BJP's longest-serving members. Shah was ambassador to Ireland from 1980 to 1983.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">15th Lok Sabha</span> 15th lower house of the Parliament of India

Members of the 15th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2009 general election in India. It was dissolved on 18 May 2014 by President Pranab Mukherjee.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yashpal Arya</span> Indian politician

Yashpal Arya is a 7-time MLA from Uttar Pradesh (twice) and Uttarakhand combined. He is a former Minister of Transportation, Social Welfare, Minority and Students' Welfare in the Government of Uttarakhand under Bharatiya Janata Party's rule. Currently, he is an Indian National Congress leader and member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. He is a former Speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly under Indian National Congress' rule. He was elected from Mukteshwar constituency in the 2007 Uttarakhand state assembly elections.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dara Singh Chauhan</span> Indian politician

Dara Singh Chauhan is an Indian politician, currently serving as member of legislative council, and formerly represented the Madhuban in Uttar Pradesh as a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was former Cabinet Minister in Yogi Adityanath ministry. He also represented Ghosi in the 15th Lok Sabha, where he was leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party. In 16th Lok Sabha, he was defeated by Harinarayan Rajbhar who represented Bharatiya Janata Party by more than 140,000 votes.

Dinesh Dhanai is an Indian politician. He has run as an independent MLA in Tehri (2012-2017) and served as a minister in the last Congress government in Uttarakhand.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trivendra Singh Rawat</span> 8th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, India

Trivendra Singh Rawat is an Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand between 2017 and 2021.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2004 Indian general election in Uttarakhand</span>

The 2004 Indian general election in Uttarakhand, occurred for 5 seats in the state. 3 seats were won by the Bharatiya Janata Party, 1 seat by Indian National Congress and 1 seat by Samajwadi Party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tirath Singh Rawat</span> 9th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand

Tirath Singh Rawat is an Indian politician, a former Member of Parliament and former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand. He was elected to the 17th Lok Sabha from the Garhwal constituency in the 2019 Indian general election as member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the party chief of Bharatiya Janata Party Uttarakhand from 9 February 2013 to 31 December 2015 and former member of Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from Chaubattakhal constituency from 2012 to 2017. He was also the first Education Minister of Uttarakhand.

Asha Nautiyal is an Indian politician. She was a MLA from Kedarnath constituency in the year 2002 and 2007 as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Bhim Lal Arya is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Arya was a member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from the Ghansali constituency in Tehri Garhwal district.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ganesh Joshi</span> Indian politician

Ganesh Joshi is an Indian politician and currently, a State Cabinet Minister of Government of Uttarakhand under the Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Joshi is a 4th time member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from the Mussoorie constituency in Dehradun district.

Madan Kaushik is an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the immediate past BJP's state president in Uttarakhand and serving his fifth term as MLA from Haridwar constituency. He is the former spokesperson for the Government of Uttarakhand. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly from Haridwar uttarakhand. He served as the cabinet minister from 2017 to 2021 and also, from 2007 to 2012 in Bhartiya Janta Party government under the chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, Bhuvan Chandra Khanduri and Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank. He was first elected as a member of the Legislative assembly in the year 2002 and subsequently in the year 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2022. In 2017, he won the elections with a margin of more than 37,000 votes, thereby getting the 68% of the total polled votes. He further won 2022 elections to serve his fifth term by winning with a margin of more than 15,000 votes.

Vijaya Barthwal is an Indian politician from the Bhartiya Janta Party. She is one of the most senior and active politician in Uttarakhand. She is three term Member of the Legislative Assembly and had represented Yamkeshwar assembly constituency of Pauri Garhwal, Uttarakhand. She was in the Cabinet of chief minister B. C. Khanduri and Ramesh Pokhriyal's government. She is also served as the first deputy speaker of Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Subodh Uniyal</span> Indian politician

Subodh Uniyal is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party currently serving as the Forest Minister of Uttarakhand. He was elected as a member of the 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly and again in the 2022 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from the Narendra Nagar constituency in Tehri Garhwal district.

Lakhiram Joshi is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Joshi was a member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from the Tehri constituency in Tehri Garhwal district.

Narayan Singh Rana is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Rana was a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council from the Garhwal Division in Uttarakhand. He is father and first coach of an Indian shooter Jaspal Rana. He was first sports minister of the Uttarakhand from 2000 to 2002. He also served Indo-Tibetan Border Police in 1967 and served in Jammu and Kashmir during the 1971 war and was also selected in the Special Protection Group in 1985. He also trains young shooter at Jaspal Rana Shooting Academy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vinod Kandari</span> Indian politician

Vinod Kandari is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Kandari is a member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from the Devprayag constituency in the Tehri Garhwal district where he has a residence at Dehradun. He has been MLA for Devprayag consecutively. In the 2017 Assembly election, he defeated his nearest rival Diwakar Bhatt an Independent by a margin of 10,325 votes.

Shakti Lal Shah is an Indian politician from Uttarakhand and a First term Member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. Shakti Lal Shah represents the Ghansali. Shakti Lal Shah is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Mukesh Singh Koli is an Indian politician, social worker and former Member of Legislative Assembly for Pauri Assembly constituency as a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. In 2017 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election, Koli defeated the Naval Kishor of Indian National Congress party by the margin of 7,030 votes. Mukesh Singh Koli is serving as State-Incharge of Bharatiya Janata Party Minority Front for Uttrakhand.

References

  1. ↑ "Tehri Dugdh Utpadak Sahakari Sangh Ltd". ucdfaanchal.org.
  2. ↑ "Present members Date of Birth". Vidhan Sabha, Uttarakhand (in Hindi). Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  3. ↑ "Uttarakhand BJP MLA Dhan Singh Negi Switches Over To Congress". NDTV.com. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  4. ↑ ADR. "Dhan Singh Negi(Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)):Constituency- TEHRI(TEHRI GARHWAL) – Affidavit Information of Candidate". myneta.info.
  5. ↑ "2017 Tehri - Uttarakhand Assembly Election Winner". India.com.
  6. ↑ "Uttarakhand Assembly Election Results in 2017". elections.in.
  7. ↑ "Tehri MLA Dhan Singh Negi Launches New - टिहरी विधायक धन सिंह नेगी ने की नई शुरूआत". amarujala.com (in Hindi).
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.