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Ameeta singh (born 4 October 1962) is an Indian politician from the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. She was Jila Panchayat president from Sultanpur and three time MLA from Amethi. She was minister of state in up government. She was a member of the upper house of Parliament of India from Assam for Indian National Congress party.
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She is married to Sanjay Singh, a prominent congress politician from Amethi (U.P) who is very close to the Gandhi family and belongs to royal family of Amethi.
Ameeta Singh's first husband, Syed Mehdi (commonly known as Syed Modi) was a top International Badminton player and she was accused of murdering Syed Modi in 1988 as he was against her illicit affair with Sanjay Singh who was already married and had 2 children. She had claimed the story of her illicit affair to be false, but the world saw the truth when Ameeta Singh married Sanjay Singh. Both Ameeta & Sanjay Singh were acquited by courts due to lack of evidence.
Early life
Ameeta Singh was born on 4 October 1962. She earned a doctorate in sociology. After long academic and sports career she married Sanjay Singh, maharaj of Amethi state. She is also known as Rani Saheb. She had a public battle over an inheritance.
Political career
Singh starter her career with election to Jila panchayat and soon became President of Jila panchayat of Sultanpur district. She won election as MLA from Amethi, becoming minister for technical education. Her family is close to Sonia and Rahul Gandhi. She is president of many social organizations. She is a blogger.
Marriage and misery
In 1978, while he was junior national champion, the 16-year-old Syed Modi(First husband of Ameeta Singh) was selected for participating in an international tournament to be held in Beijing, China. A girl badminton player of his own age named Amita Kulkarni was in the women's team, and, as the Supreme Court would later record, "there arose intimacy between the two." While Modi was a Muslim from north India, Amita was a Hindu from Maharashtra, had grown up in Mumbai and came from an affluent, upper-class English-educated family, very different from Modi's own background. Both families were stridently opposed to marriage between Modi and Amita, not just because of the vast chasm in their backgrounds, but also because they anticipated that professional issues, jealousies and oneupmanship would also become major factors in a marriage between two ambitious, target-oriented, over-achieving individuals. Indeed, the families remained opposed to the marriage even to the bitter end. However, Modi and Ameeta were adamant and got married in a registry office in a hastily arranged ceremony.
As soon as they had had their way and married each other, the couple began having problems. Behavioral expectations and professional jealousies have been identified conclusively, but religious issues have also been hinted at in a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) report. Most important of all was the involvement of a third person. This was Sanjay Singh, the Raja of Amethi, an immensely rich man, a classmate and friend of the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, and a prominent politician belonging to the ruling Congress party. Amita and Sanjay Singh had come in contact with each other in 1984, under circumstances that are not clear. Raja Sanjay Singh was a married man with two children, and Amita also had been married for several years to Modi, although they had no children yet. Modi began to suspect that his wife was having an affair with the Raja, and for reasons that are unclear, Amita seems to have chosen to feed his fears rather than allay them. Knowing that Modi sometimes read her personal diary when she was away from home, Amita used to "tease" him by writing details of her relationship with Sanjay Singh in that dairy. After Modi was murdered, the dairy fell into the hands of the police, and Amita explained the incriminating contents of the dairy in the following words:
Matters came to a head when Amita became pregnant. According to the CBI report, Modi suspected that the child was not his, but was the result of Amita's affair with Sanjay Singh. His wife did not feel disposed to allay these fears, and went to her parents' house in Mumbai for her confinement. A girl child was born in May 1988 and Amita gave her the Hindu name 'Aakanksha.'. She then left the infant with her parents in Mumbai and returned to Lucknow, supposedly in order to continue with her badminton practice and get back into form as soon as possible. Modi resented all of these circumstances, while Amita resented the fact that her badminton career was put on hold, while Syed continued to rack up titles, winning his eighth consecutive national trophy in 1987. However, personal issues had in fact taken a toll on Modi's sporting performance. He had recently lost the national trophy (1988), after having won it eight times in a row from 1980 to 1987.
Social Work
Singh is involved in many social work projects such as providing free health care. She helped organize group marriages for the poor, giving her the nickname Rani Maa.