Hukum Singh

Hukam Singh is a Website & Software Developer From Bundi,Rajasthan India(Barth 11-01-1993 : 9:11 PM) Hukum Singh is an Indian politician who was accused in the 2013 Muzaffarnagar Riots. He is a former minister in Government of Uttar Pradesh. He is a Member of Parliament elected from Kairana (Lok Sabha constituency) in Uttar Pradesh as a candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party. Hukum Singh has actively participated in many Jan Andolan. He comes from the Gujjar community.[1]

Born in Kairana in 1938 into a Gurjar family, Mr. Singh completed his LLB from the Allahabad University before commissioning for the Indian Army in 1963. He served as a captain in Poonch and Rajouri sectors in Kashmir during the 1965 India-Pakistan war and in Andhra Pradesh for a year. He then took voluntary retirement and started practicing Law in Muzaffarnagar. He entered active politics in 1974, becoming an MLA for the first time on a Congress ticket. He went on to win Assembly elections seven times and held the post of deputy speaker of the Assembly from 1983 to 1985. He won his fourth term with the BJP in 1995 and his first Lok Sabha elections in 2014. In June 2016 he claimed that Kairana had become a "new Kashmir".[2]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.thestatesman.net/news/48523-ominous-shadow.html?page=3
  2. ↑ "Hukum Singh's plan was to promote his daughter, say police". The Hindu. 2016-06-16. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2016-06-16.
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