Kirti Vardhan Singh

Kirti Vardhan Singh
Singh in 2024
Union Minister of State for External Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 June 2024 Serving with Pabitra Margherita
President	Draupadi Murmu
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Minister	S Jaishankar
Vice President	Jagdeep Dhankhar
Preceded by	V Muraleedharan
Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 June 2024
President	Draupadi Murmu
Prime Minister	Narendra Modi
Minister	Bhupender Yadav
Vice President	Jagdeep Dhankhar
Preceded by	Ashwini Kumar Choubey
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 May 2014
Preceded by	Beni Prasad Verma
Constituency	Gonda, Uttar Pradesh
In office 22 May 2004 – 17 May 2009
Preceded by	Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh
Succeeded by	Beni Prasad Verma
Constituency	Gonda, Uttar Pradesh
In office 1998–1999
Preceded by	Ketki Devi Singh
Succeeded by	Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh
Constituency	Gonda, Uttar Pradesh
Personal details
Born	(1966-03-01) 1 March 1966 (age 58) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Political party	Bhartiya Janata Party (2014–present)
Other political affiliations	Samajwadi Party (1998–2009,2012-2014) Bahujan Samaj Party (2009-2012)
Spouse	Kunwarani Madhushree Singh ​ ​ (m. 2002)​
Children	1
Parent(s)	Raja Anand Singh (father) Veena Singh (mother)
Residence(s)	23, B.R. Mehta Lane, New Delhi, Delhi, India - 110 001
Alma mater	University of Lucknow
Occupation	Politician environmental activist
As of 17 September, 2006 Source: [2]

Kirti Vardhan Singh (born 1 March 1966) is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh. He is currently serving as a Minister of State for External Affairs in Third Modi Government and Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha for the Gonda constituency for 5th time. He is locally known by the alias Raja Bhaiya, being connected with erstwhile Taluqdari of Mankapur.^[1]

He was member of 12th and 14th Lok Sabha from Gonda, Uttar Pradesh as a Samajwadi Party candidate. In March 2014, he resigned from the SP and joined Bharatiya Janata Party and contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, again from Gonda, where he was ekected in the 16th and 17th Lok Sabhas.^[2] Singh is known to be an environmental activist. In July 2018, he won a case against State Government of Uttar Pradesh in Green Tribunal, a case pertaining to illegal sand mining by gangs in his constituency.^[3][4]

In 2024 he was re-elected as the Member of Parliament from Gonda in the pivotal 18th Lok Sabha elections, from a BJP ticket. He is one of the 33 BJP MPs in Uttar Pradesh, in the difficult election period. He defeated the INDI Alliance candidate Shreya Verma (SP) with a margin of 46222 Votes. Later that month, he took part in the oath ceremony as a Minister of State in the council of ministers. He has been made a junior minister in the Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Ministry of External Affairs.

In 2023 he gained attention for his involvement in a historic event on 8 April 2023. Singh piloted a powered hang glider above Pinjore Airport in Haryana, with veteran skydiver Shital Mahajan performing a jump as part of the inauguration of the National Aero Modelling Fellowship Program by the Aero Club of India. This event marked the first instance of a civilian jumping from a powered hang glider piloted by an active MP. The event, organized by the Aero Club of India representing the Federation of Aeronautical Internationale in India, received praise for its historic significance and potential for national recognition by the FAI.

He was born on 1 March 1966 to Raja Anand Singh and Veena Singh of Mankapur Taluquadari.

He pursued higher education in the field of Geology and successfully obtained a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree from the Lucknow University, where he specialised in geological sciences.

On 16 November 2002, Kirti Vardhan Singh married Madhushree Singh. The couple has a son, Kunwar Jai Vardhan Singh, who was born on 10 November 2006. As a family, they are involved in various social and cultural activities.

• Third Modi ministry

• Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website