Hukum Singh was an Indian politician who served as the Member of Parliament from Kairana in Uttar Pradesh as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate.
14 Facts About Hukum Singh
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Hukum Singh was a member of the Panel of Chairpersons of the 16th Lok Sabha, and the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Water Resources.
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Hukum Singh received his Bachelor of Arts and LLB degrees from Allahabad University.
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Hukum Singh married Rewati Devi on 13 June 1958, with whom he has five daughters.
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Hukum Singh was previously elected as a Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly for seven terms.
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Hukum Singh has served as a Cabinet Minister in Uttar Pradesh governments under both BJP and the Congress.
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Hukum Singh participated in the 1965 Pakistan war as a captain, in the Poonch sector in Kashmir.
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Hukum Singh entered active politics in 1974, becoming an MLA for the first time on a Congress ticket.
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Hukum Singh went on to win Assembly elections seven times and held the post of deputy speaker of the Assembly from 1983 to 1985.
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Hukum Singh won his fourth term, as a BJP candidate, in 1996 and his first Lok Sabha elections in 2014.
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Hukum Singh refuted allegations of inciting communal tensions by saying that he did not make any inflammatory speech and only attempted to calm down the assembled crowd.
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Hukum Singh's claims were later partially validated by a report of the National Human Rights Commission.
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Hukum Singh had participated in more debates than the national average and asked significant questions in the parliament to bring attention towards problems affecting the people of his constituency.
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Apart from participating in public meetings and mass movements for the cause of social justice, Hukum Singh was very active on social media and in the parliament.