Purnima Niraj Singh

Purnima Niraj Singh (born 21 November 1985) is a Member of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly from the Jharia constituency in Dhanbad district.[1][2] She was married to late Niraj Singh, the ex-Deputy Mayor of Dhanbad.[3]

Purnima Niraj Singh
Personal details
Born (1985-11-21) 21 November 1985
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
Political partyIndian National Congress
Spouse(s)Niraj Singh

Education

She went to Lucknow's City Montessori School to study Science. Afterwards, she got herself a Bachelor's in Arts in English and Computer Application from Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow. She followed up her graduation degree with a Mass Communication Masters in Advertising & Marketing from Amity University Noida. Purnima Singh later went on to pick up a Diploma in the German language from Central Institute of English and foreign languages.

Career

Academia

Purnima Niraj Singh began her professional career as a teacher, curriculum designer, program facilitator and coordinator at City International School and Global Classrooms Private Limited. She stayed involved with the organization from 2009 to 2012.

Politics

She contested the 2019 Jharkhand State Assembly Polls from Jharia as a Mahagathbandhan[4] and Indian National Congress candidate against her sister-in-law Ragini Singh, the wife of Sanjeev Singh, her brother-in-law who is an accused in the murder of her late husband Niraj Singh.[5][6] Winning the elections by a margin of 12054 (twelve thousand and fifty four) votes [7] she created history by winning the Jharia seat for INC for the first time in 52 years. Although INC won a total of 16 seats in the 2019 Jharkhand Assembly polls, marking its best electoral performance since the formation for the state, it failed to win any other seat in the rest of Dhanbad district, making Purnima Niraj Singh's victory all the more noticeable. Her victory also marks a first for the Nahagathbandhan in the Jharia Assembly Seat.[8]

Personal life

On 7 December 2012, she married Niraj Singh, Dhanbad's former Deputy Mayor, thus also becoming a daughter-in-law of Rajnarayan Singh and Bachcha Singh, the siblings of a very powerful name of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand's politics and coal business Late Suryadeo Singh,[9] a former MLA and minister in Jharkhand State Government. Though her marriage into a political family allowed her to have front row seats to Dhanbad district's and the state's politics, it was after Niraj Singh, her husband was murdered in a grisly shootout that she was forced to step into the formal political arena.[10]

References
  1. https://eci.gov.in/files/file/11813-jharkhand-legislative-assembly-election-2019/
  2. "Purnima Niraj Singh Election Results 2019: News, Votes, Results of Jharkhand Assembly". NDTV.com. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  3. "Ex-Deputy Mayor Neeraj Singh, 3 Others Killed in Jharkhand Gang War". News18. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  4. Ranchi, Satyajeet Kumar (8 November 2019). "Jharkhand Assembly Election: Congress, JMM, RJD announce power sharing formula, Hemant Soren CM candidate". India Today. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  5. "हिंदी खबर, Latest News in Hindi, हिंदी समाचार, ताजा खबर". Patrika News (in Hindi). Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  6. "वासेपुर में असली जंग, बीजेपी-कांग्रेस ने लगाया 2 वुमनिया पर दांव". aajtak.intoday.in (in Hindi). Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  7. Jharia/Jharkh, India Today Web Desk (23 December 2019). "Jharia Election Result 2019: Congress's Purnima Niraj Singh wins". India Today. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  8. "निरसा में पहली बार भाजपा, तो झरिया में 52 साल बाद जीती कांग्रेस". Dainik Bhaskar (in Hindi). 30 December 2019. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  9. "Suryadeo Singh", Wikipedia, 9 February 2020, retrieved 27 February 2020
  10. "Jharkhand elections: Brother kills brother, their wives contest against each other". India Today. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
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