Ganga Bhakt Singh

Ganga Bhakt Singh (1922–2010) was a senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party from Uttar Pradesh, India, who had connections to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. He served as a cabinet minister twice in the Government of Uttar Pradesh in 1967 and 1991 and as the Deputy-Chairman of the State Planning Commission between 1999-2002 under the Chief Minister Rajnath Singh. He was a member of the Sixth Lok Sabha from Shahabad Lok Sabha constituency as well as being a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly for four terms.^[1][2]

An active social and political worker, Singh was associated with the organisational work of a number of societies in his constituency and worked for the uplift of rural people. He was also associated with the management of Bhartiya Vidyalayas in Uttar Pradesh.

Singh died on 15 August 2010 at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh at the age of 88.

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