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Nirmal Kumar Singh
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Nirmal Kumar Singh is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party from Jammu and Kashmir.
Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir [1]
GovernorNarinder Nath Vohra
Chief MinisterMufti Mohammad Sayeed
Preceded byPresident's Rule
Personal details
BornBasohli
Political partyBJP
Residence(s)Jammu and Kashmir, India

Nirmal Kumar Singh is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party from Jammu and Kashmir. He is elected to the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly in 2014 assembly election from Billawar in Kathua district. He defeated former minister Manohar Lal Sharma of Indian National Congress by a margin of 17,975 votes. [2]Dr Nirmal Singh has done Ph.D in History from Jammu University in 1988 and now serves as a professor of history in Jammu University.[3]

Early life and education

Dr Nirmal Singh was born on December 1, 1955 to a humble family in Basohli, J&K. His father was a security aide of erstwhile Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir.

Political career

Singh started taking active interest in political activities at a young age. He was arrested during the Emergency period in 1975. After serving the ABVP as a pracharak in different parts of the country, Dr Singh returned to Jammu and joined the University of Jammu as a lecturer in the Post Graduate Department of History. Besides teaching at the department, he also took the mantle of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad state president and following a directive from the RSS joined the BJP. He was appointed the state general secretary of the party in 1998.

Singh contested several Lok Sabha and state assembly elections over the past 25 years but had to wait till 2014 for his maiden victory. 58-year-old Singh won the assembly election held last year from Billawar constituency in Kathua district by defeating sitting Congress MLA by a margin of nearly 18,000 votes. He is among the first BJP MLAs to be sworn-in as a minister in the country's only Muslim-majority state. A long time RSS supporter, the BJP leader is considered the main force behind the rise of party in Jammu region of the state over the years. He is considered close to Jagat Prakash Nadda due to ABVP roots.

References

  1. ^ Mufti Muhammad Sayeed, BJP’s Nirmal Singh to assume office in J&K on 22 February - The Economic Times
  2. ^ http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS0966.htm?ac=66
  3. ^ Dr. Nirmal Kumar Singh(Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)):Constituency- BILLAWAR(KATHUA) - Affidavit Information of Candidate:
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