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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix =
| name = Ch. Prem Singh
| image =
| honorific-suffix =
| office = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]], [[Delhi Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start = 1993
| term_end = 2013
| predecessor =
| successor = Incumbent
| office1 = Councillor, Metropolitan Council of Delhi
| term_start1 = 1967
| term_end1 = 1990
| predecessor1 =
| successor1 =
| office2 = Councillor, [[Municipal Corporation of Delhi]]
| term_start2 = 1958
| term_end2 = 1967
| predecessor2 =
| successor2 =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1932|12|20}}
| birth_place = [[Delhi]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|12|12|1932|12|20|df=y}}<ref name=death/>
|death_place = [[New Delhi]], [[India]]
|death_cause = [[Heart Attack]]
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]
| residence = [[Mehrauli]]
| alma_mater = [[Zakir Husain Delhi College]]
| website =
| footnotes =
| date = 6 December 2013
| source = http://legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in/States/Delhi/speak.htm Government of India
}}
'''Chaudhary Prem Singh''' (20 December 1932 – 12 December 2017) was an Indian politician from [[Delhi]]. He contested his first election from [[Ambedkar Nagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Ambedkar Nagar]] in 1958, and made a World Record of Continuously Winning 12 elections from Same Party & Same Constituency.

Prem Singh was elected to the [[Municipal Corporation of Delhi]] (MCD) in 1958 and 1962. He was then elected to the Metropolitan Council of Delhi four times during 1972–1983. He was elected to the [[Delhi Legislative Assembly]] four times in a row during 1993–2008. His name features in the [[Limca Book of Records]] for winning 10 consecutive elections from the same constituency and the same party.<ref name="HT_2008">{{cite news | url = http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/newdelhi/ch-prem-singh-congress-ambedkar-nagar/article1-348330.aspx | title = Ch Prem Singh: Congress (Ambedkar Nagar) | newspaper = Hindustan Times | date = 2008-10-31 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20131223034106/http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/newdelhi/ch-prem-singh-congress-ambedkar-nagar/article1-348330.aspx | archivedate = 2013-12-23 }}</ref> He has also served on the [[Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee]] and the [[All India Congress Committee]].

== Early life ==

Prem Singh was born into [[Jatav]] caste at Lado Sarai, [[Delhi]].<ref name="indiatoday">{{cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/nation/story/20030707-uttar-pradesh-assembly-polls-congress-woos-dalits-to-ward-off-bsp-threat-792484-2003-07-07|title=The caste schedule - Nation News - Issue Date: Jul 7, 2003|website=India Today|date=2003-07-07|author=Lakshmi Iyer|accessdate=2020-12-20}}</ref> His father, Chaudhary Himmat Singh was a Congress party worker and a participant in the [[Indian Independence movement]]. Prem Singh graduated in science from Delhi College (now [[Zakir Husain Delhi College]]) in 1952.<ref name="HT_2008"/>

== Political career ==

Prem Singh joined the Indian National Congress in 1952, at the insistence of his mentor [[C. Krishnan Nair]] (CK Nair), who was a senior Congress [[Member of Parliament#India|MP]] and known as the initial nominee to become the first CM of Delhi.<ref name="HT_2008"/> In 1958, he became the youngest member of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and the first chairman of its Committee on Delhi Rural Area. He was re-elected to MCD in 1962. He went on to serve on the Education and Works committees of MCD, and also served as the Deputy Chairman of the Zonal Committee.<ref name="DLA_profile">{{cite web | url = http://delhiassembly.nic.in/aspfile/whos_who/Prem_singh.htm| title = Ch. Prem Singh | publisher = Delhi Vidhan Sabha | accessdate = 2013-12-07 }}</ref>

In 1967, Prem Singh was elected to the newly constituted Metropolitan Council of Delhi (predecessor of the Delhi Legislative Assembly). He was re-elected to the Metropolitan Council in 1972, 1977 and 1983.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://delhiassembly.nic.in/speaker.htm | title = Ch. Prem Singh | accessdate = 2013-12-07 | publisher = Delhi Legislative Assembly}}</ref> He served as an Executive Council member during the Fourth Metropolitan Council (1983–1990).<ref>{{cite news | url = http://delhiassembly.nic.in/metropoliton.htm | title = Delhi Metropolitan Council | publisher = Delhi Legislative Assembly | accessdate = 2013-12-07 }}</ref>

Also in 1967, he was elected as a member of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC), the decision-making body of the Congress in Delhi. In 1969, he became a member of [[All India Congress Committee]], the central decision-making assembly of the party. He went on to win consecutive DPCC elections in 1972, 1977 and 1983. He served as the General Secretary of DPCC during 1969–1975, and as its president in 1977 and during 1988–1992.<ref name="DLA_profile"/>

He was elected to the first Legislative Assembly of Delhi in 1993, and went on to win the next three elections in 1998, 2003 and 2008. He also served as the [[Speaker (politics)|speaker]] of the second (1998–2003) and the third (2004–2008) Assemblies.<ref name="DLA_profile"/> In 2013, he lost the election to [[Aam Aadmi Party]]'s Ashok Kumar, coming third.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.financialexpress.com/news/delhi-election-results-sheila-dikshit-staring-at-ignominious-defeat-against-kejriwal-resigns-as-cm/1204948 | title = Delhi election results: Sheila Dikshit staring at ignominious defeat against Kejriwal, resigns as CM | date = 2013-12-08 | newspaper = Indian Express }}</ref>

== Personal life ==

Prem Singh lived in the Lado Sarai area of [[Mehrauli]] with his wife Shivkauri; the couple had 6 daughters and 2 sons.<ref name="DLA_profile"/> His son Pramod Choudhary (born 1971) was also elected to the MCD in 2007, but lost elections in 2012.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.dpcc.co.in/biography/images/councillors/pramodchoudhary.php | title = Municipal Councillor (180) Dakshin Puri Extn (SC) | publisher = Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee | accessdate = 2013-12-07 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100826010444/http://www.dpcc.co.in/biography/images/councillors/pramodchoudhary.php | archivedate = 2010-08-26 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.millenniumpost.in/NewsContent.aspx?NID=45114| title = Ambedkar Nagar seat set for triangular fight | author = Roushan Ali | date = 2013-11-27 | newspaper = Millennium Post }}</ref> His other son Yaduraj Chaudhary also dabbled in politics as a member of the Delhi Youth Congress.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.indianexpress.com/news/cong-leaders-start-packing-delhi-unit-with-sons-daughters/703075/0 | title = Cong leaders start packing Delhi unit with sons, daughters | date = 2010-10-27 | newspaper = Indian Express | author = Rajiv Bajpai }}</ref>

== Death ==

Prem Singh suffered a heart attack while participating in a party event on [[B. R. Ambedkar]]'s death anniversary (''Mahaparinirvan Divas'') on 6 December 2017. He was admitted to the Heart & Lung Institute but on 9 December 2017, he was shifted to [[Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket|Max Hospital (Saket)]], and died there on 12 December 2017 after having 4 more heart attacks.<ref name=death>{{cite news | url = http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/senior-congress-leader-chaudhary-prem-singh-passes-away/1/1108926 | title = Senior Congress leader Chaudhary Prem Singh passes away | date = 2017-12-13 | newspaper = India Today }}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:1932 births]]
[[Category:2017 deaths]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians]]
[[Category:Members of the Delhi Legislative Assembly]]
[[Category:Speakers of the Delhi Legislative Assembly]]
[[Category:Delhi MLAs 2008–2013]]

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