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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Rajkumari Ratna Singh
| image = Rajkumari Ratna Singh MP Pratapgarh.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|4|29|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[New Delhi]], [[India]]
| office = [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha]]
| constituency1 = [[Pratapgarh (Lok Sabha constituency)|Pratapgarh]]
| term1 = 1996–1998
| predecessor1 = [[Abhay Pratap Singh]]
| successor1 = [[Ram Vilas Vedanti]]
| constituency2 = [[Pratapgarh (Lok Sabha constituency)|Pratapgarh]]
| term2 = 1999–2004
| predecessor2 = [[Ram Vilas Vedanti]]
| successor2 = [[Akshay Pratap Singh]]
| constituency3 = [[Pratapgarh (Lok Sabha constituency)|Pratapgarh]]
| term3 = 2009–2014
| predecessor3 = [[Akshay Pratap Singh]]
| successor3 = [[Harivansh Singh]]
| party = [[Indian National Congress]] (1995–2019) <br /> [[Bharatiya Janta Party]] (2019–present)
| parents = [[Dinesh Singh (Uttar Pradesh politician)|Raja Dinesh Singh]]
}}

'''Ratna Singh''' (born 29 April 1959) is an Indian politician, daughter of former minister [[Dinesh Singh (politician)|Dinesh Singh]]. She has been elected [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha|MP]] from [[Pratapgarh (Lok Sabha constituency)|Pratapgarh]] to [[Lok Sabha]] thrice as from [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] party in 1996, 1999 and 2009. But after coming third in two consecutive Lok Sabha election (2014 and 2019) on Congress ticket, she left to join [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] in October 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-10-15|title=Big jolt to Congress! Three-time Pratapgarh MP Ratna Singh joins BJP in presence of CM Adityanath|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/big-jolt-to-congress-three-time-pratapgarh-mp-ratna-singh-joins-bjp-in-presence-of-cm-adityanath/1736138/|access-date=2020-08-27|website=The Financial Express|language=en-US}}</ref>

==Career==
She had won from Pratapgarh in 1999, but lost the 2004 elections to [[Akshay Pratap Singh]] alias Gopalji, Ratna and [[Raghuraj Pratap Singh]] are both related to the but hail from different branches.<ref>{{cite news |title=Erstwhile rajas in poll race |url=http://www.hindu.com/holnus/002200903231151.htm |publisher=[[The Hindu]] |date=23 March 2009 }}</ref>

Ratna Singh regained the [[Pratapgarh (Lok Sabha constituency)|Pratapgarh constituency]] in the [[2009 Indian general elections]], defeating her nearest [[Samajwadi Party]] rival Prof. Shivakant Ojha, by over 30,000 votes.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090519184216/http://ibnlive.in.com/politics/electionresults/constituency/24/24/pratapgarh.html ] Pratapgragh] [[CNN IBN]]</ref> Akshay Pratap Singh came in third, and fourth was the noted criminal-politician [[Ateeq Ahmed]] who was fighting the elections from prison. Partly, her victory has been attributed to a re-allocation of the boundaries of the electoral district, whereby [[Raja Bhaiya]]'s Kunda district was re-apportioned to a separate area.<ref name=rediff>{{cite web|url=http://election.rediff.com/special/2009/apr/23/loksabhapolls-who-will-clean-filthy-pratapgarh.htm |title=Who will clean up filthy and feudal Pratapgarh? - Lok Sabha Election news - Rediff.com |publisher=Election.rediff.com |date=2009-04-23 |accessdate=2014-03-15}}</ref>

Subsequently, in the [[2014 Indian general elections]] she was defeated by [[Harivansh Singh]] of [[Apna Dal]].

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://bharat.gov.in/govt/loksabhampbiodata.php?mpcode=434 Lok Sabha Profile] [[Govt. of India]] website
* [http://www.parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok13/biodata/13UP24.htm Biographical Sketch:Member of Parliament] at [[Parliament of India]] website.

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