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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image = Arti_Singh_Rao.png
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| caption =
| office = [[Second Saini ministry|Minister of Health and Family Welfare]], Government of Haryana
| predecessor =
| successor =
| governor = [[Bandaru Dattatreya]]
| 1blankname = Chief Minister
| 1namedata = [[Nayab Singh Saini]]
| subterm = '''Cabinet'''
| suboffice =
| 2blankname = [[Second Saini ministry|Additional Ministries and Departments]]
| 2namedata = *Medical Education & Research
*Ayush
| term_start = 17 October 2024
| office6 = Member of
[[Haryana Legislative Assembly]]
| constituency6 = [[Ateli Assembly constituency]]
| term_start6 = 8 October 2024
| term_end6 =
| predecessor6 = Sitaram Yadav
| successor6 =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1979|7|3|df=y}}
| birth_place = Near Bhagwat Bhakti Ashram, Rampura, [[Rewari]], Haryana, India
| death_date =
| death_place =
| father = [[Rao Inderjit Singh]]
| mother = Manita Singh
| spouse =
| party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| children =
| alma_mater = Graduate
| occupation = Politician & International Skeet Shooter
| website =
| education =
| alt = Arti Singh Rao Health Minister Haryana
| relations = [[Rao Birender Singh]] (Grand-father)
}}

'''Arti Singh Rao''' is an Indian politician from the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]], who is currently serving as the [[Ministry of Health and Family Welfare|Minister of Health and Family Welfare]] of Haryana. She is a Member of the [[Haryana Legislative Assembly]] from the [[Ateli Assembly constituency]] since [[2024 Haryana Legislative Assembly election|October 2024]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-08 |title=Ateli, Haryana Assembly Election Results 2024 Highlights: BJP's Arti Singh Rao defeats BSP's Attar Lal with 3085 votes |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/elections/assembly/story/ateli-haryana-assembly-election-results-2024-live-updates-aelb-2612844-2024-10-08 |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=India Today |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-08 |title=Ateli Election Result 2024 LIVE Update: BJP's Arti Singh Rao A Winner After Close Fight With BSP's Attar Lal |url=https://www.news18.com/elections/ateli-election-result-2024-live-update-9077355.html |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=News18 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="A look at Haryana’s 40 first-time MLAs">{{cite news|title=A look at Haryana's 40 first-time MLAs|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/haryana-first-time-mlas-9702131/|accessdate=4 July 2025|publisher=The Indian Express|date=2 December 2024|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20250704171938/https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/haryana-first-time-mlas-9702131/|archivedate=4 July 2025|language=en}}</ref> She is the daughter of [[Rao Inderjit Singh]], who is the current [[Ministry of Culture (India)|Minister of Culture]] of India.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Team |first=T. H. S. |date=2024-02-03 |title=Aarti Rao: Raising the election pitch with 'Discrimination against South Haryana' |url=https://en.theharyanastory.com/article/306/aarti-rao-raising-the-election-pitch-with-discrimination-against-south-haryana |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=en.theharyanastory.com |language=en}}</ref>

==Early life==
Arti Singh Rao was born in royal family of Rewari in 1979. She is a daughter of Indian politician & Union Minister [[Rao Inderjit Singh]] and Manita Singh. She was an International Skeet Shooter and has won multiple medals finishing best with a Gold Medal at the 2005 Asian Games. She started practicing shooting in 1998 and played her first international competition in 1999.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2024-10-21 |title=Arti Singh RAO, ISSF Athletes Database |url=https://www.issf-sports.org/athletes/SHINDW0307197901 |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=ISSF |language=en}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=October 2024}} She is the granddaughter of [[Birender Singh (politician, born 1921)|Rao Birender Singh]], the former Chief Minister of Haryana. Her uncles, Rao Ajit Singh and Rao Yaduvendra Singh, are also politicians.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}}

==Political career==
Belonging to a well-established political family, her debut in politics was inevitable. Although she was active in the political sphere since the early 2010s, she was denied a ticket to [[Haryana Legislative Assembly]] seat earlier by [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-21 |title='Despite being Rao Inderjit Singh's daughter, I did not get a ticket for 10 years… I am here to work': Arti Singh Rao |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/rao-inderjit-singh-daughter-ticket-haryana-assembly-polls-9577016/ |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref> but was offered one from [[Ateli]] constituency in [[2024 Haryana Legislative Assembly election]], a constituency in southern Haryana, where Rao Inderjit Singh has a very strong foothold. She defeated the [[Bahujan Samaj Party|BSP]] candidate Atar Lal<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-08 |title=Ateli Election Result 2024 LIVE Update: BJP's Arti Singh Rao A Winner After Close Fight With BSP's Attar Lal |url=https://www.news18.com/elections/ateli-election-result-2024-live-update-9077355.html |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=News18 |language=en}}</ref> and became the member of assembly for the first time. In the [[Second Saini ministry]], she was sworn in as a cabinet minister and allotted Health ministry portfolio. She is also the Minister of Medical Education & Research and the Minister of Ayush.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-10-21 |title=Haryana's new ministers get portfolios: CM Nayab Singh Saini keeps home, Anil Vij heads energy |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/haryanas-new-ministers-get-portfolios-cm-nayab-singh-saini-keeps-home-anil-vij-heads-energy/articleshow/114409346.cms |access-date=2024-10-21 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref>

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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Haryana MLAs 2024–2029]]
[[Category:Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Haryana]]
[[Category:1979 births]]
[[Category:Shooters at the 2002 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Shooters at the 2010 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Shooters at the 2014 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Women members of the Haryana Legislative Assembly]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian women politicians]]
[[Category:Indian sportsperson-politicians]]

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