Dinesh Singh (Uttar Pradesh politician)

Dinesh Singh
Dinesh Singh
External Affairs Minister
	In office; 1969-70;1993-1995
Constituency	Pratapgarh
Personal details
Born	19 July 1925; Kalakankar, United Provinces, British India
Died	30 November 1995 (aged 70); Delhi, India
Political party	INC

Dinesh Singh (19 July 1925 – 30 November 1995) was an Indian politician. His family is from Kalakankar. He served as a Member of Parliament on several occasions, and twice served as the Minister of External Affairs of India.[1]

Early life and education

Dinesh Singh was born on 19 July 1925, to Avadhesh Singh, the taluqdar, or landed nobleman, of Kalakankar in of Uttar Pradesh. He was educated at The Doon School, Dehradun and at Lucknow University.[2]

Career

In 1962-66 he was Deputy Minister in the Ministry of External Affairs 1962–66, Minister of State 1966–67, and Minister of Commerce 1967-69 and 1988–89, Minister of Industrial Development and Internal Trade 1970–71. He was Minister of External Affairs 1969-70 and 1993–1995.

He was elected from Pratapgarh for seven terms from the Second Lok Sabha (1957–62), to the Fifth Lok Sabha (1971–77), and then again for the Eighth and Ninth Lok Sabha 1984–1991, serving in the Rajya Sabha in the interregnum.

Family

He married Neelima Kumari of the Tehri-Garhwal ruling family, in 1944, and had six daughters. His sixth daughter is Ratna Singh, who was also an MP from the same Pratapgarh constituency.

He died on 30 November 1995 in New Delhi.

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References

"Obituary: Dinesh Singh". The Independent. 2 December 1995.
AP (4 December 1995). "Dinesh Singh, Indian Cabinet Minister, 70 - The New York Times". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 30 May 2020.

External links

Kalakankar royal family tree

Preceded by Indira Gandhi	Minister for External Affairs of India 1969–1970	Succeeded by Sardar Swaran Singh
Preceded by P V Narasimha Rao	Minister for External Affairs of India 1993–1995	Succeeded by Pranab Mukherjee

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[ind-1] "Obituary: Dinesh Singh". The Independent. 2 December 1995.

[2] AP (4 December 1995). "Dinesh Singh, Indian Cabinet Minister, 70 - The New York Times". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 30 May 2020.