Governor Narinder Nath Vohra Constituency Billawar Party Bharatiya Janata Party Preceded by Manohar Lal Sharma Role Indian Politician | Preceded by Tara Chand Name Nirmal Singh Nationality Indian | |
Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed | ||
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Nirmal Kumar Singh (Dogri: निर्मल कुमार सिंह) is an Indian politician and the current Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. He is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. On 1 March 2015 he assumed the charge as Minister for Power Development and Housing and Urban Development.
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- Direct with dinesh exclusive inerview of nirmal kumar singh dy cm of jammu kashmir
- Early life and education
- Political career
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He was elected to the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly in the 2014 assembly election from Billawar in Kathua district. He defeated former minister Manohar Lal Sharma of Indian National Congress by a margin of 17,975 votes. Dr Nirmal Singh has done Ph.D in History from Jammu University in 1988 and now serves as a professor of history in Jammu University.
Early life and education
Dr Nirmal Singh was born on January 22, 1956 to a humble family in Karanwara Basohli, Jammu and Kashmir. He did his primary education in his native place. He is the youngest to his two brothers. His father was a security aide of erstwhile Maharaja Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir. He has served as the professor of History at Jammu University.
Political career
Singh started taking an active interest in political activities at a young age. He was arrested during the Emergency period in 1975. After serving the ABVP as a pracharak in different parts of the country, Dr Singh returned to Jammu and joined the University of Jammu as a lecturer in the Post Graduate Department of History. Besides teaching at the department, he also took the mantle of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad state president and following a directive from the RSS joined the BJP. He was appointed the state general secretary of the party in 1998.
Singh contested several Lok Sabha and state assembly elections over the course of 25 years but had to wait until 2014 for his maiden victory. 58-year-old Singh won the assembly election held in 2014 from Billawar constituency in Kathua district by defeating sitting Congress MLA by a margin of nearly 18,000 votes. He is among the first BJP MLAs to be sworn-in as a minister in India's only Muslim-majority state. A long time RSS supporter, the BJP leader is considered the main force behind the rise of party in Jammu region of the state over the years.
He sparked controversy when he described killing of a militant in kashmir as "accident" .