Amar Singh
1956–2020
- Nationality
- India
- Occupation
- industrialist
Amar Singh (27 January 1956 – 1 August 2020) was an Indian politician from the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Incarceration history
- Tihar JailDates unknown
Biography
Amar Singh (27 January 1956 – 1 August 2020) was an Indian politician from the state of Uttar Pradesh. He was the general secretary of the Samajwadi Party and a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament. On 6 January 2010, he resigned from all the posts of the Samajwadi Party and was later expelled from the party by its chief, Mulayam Singh Yadav, on 2 February 2010, for disagreement with Yadav on the Women's Reservation Bill.In 2011, he was arrested and spent a brief period in jail for alleged involvement in the cash-for-votes scandal. In 2016, he was elected to Rajya Sabha with support from Samajwadi Party even after facing a stiff opposition from a section of the party including the then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav (Mulayam's son). Amar Singh was also reinstated as one of the general secretaries of the party in October 2016. On 1 August 2020, Singh died of a kidney ailment in Singapore at the age of 64.