Ratanjit Pratap Narain Singh
In the 2014 General Election, despite an increase in his own votes, he was defeated by Rajesh Pandey (BJP).In September 2020, Singh was chosen for AICC in charge of Jharkhand[1] and Chhattisgarh.[2] He resigned from Congress in January 2022 and joined the BJP, a month ahead of 2022 UP Elections,[3] thus becoming the fourth prominent Doon School alumnus to leave the Congress Party to join hands with the BJP, following Jyotiraditya Scindia, Jitin Prasada and Amarinder Singh.Singh, was also MP of Kushinagar (then Hata) and a Minister of State for Defence in the Indira Gandhi cabinet in 1980.Now he has been declared BJP candidate from Uttar Pradesh for Member of Parliament Rajya Sabha.