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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = Bharat Singh<br />
| image =https://www.india.gov.in/sites/upload_files/npi/files/mpimages/loksabha/4695.jpg <br />
| caption =<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|9|15|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Ballia]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]]<br />
| residence = Nawka Tola, [[Ballia]], [[Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
| death_date =<br />
| death_place =<br />
| office = [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha]]<br />
|term_start = 2014<br />
|term_end = 2019<br />
| constituency = [[Ballia (Lok Sabha constituency)|Ballia]]<br />
| term =<br />
| occupation = [[Agriculturist]] <br />
| predecessor = [[Neeraj Shekhar]]<br />
| successor = [[Virendra Singh Mast]]<br />
| party =[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]<br />
| religion = <br />
| spouse = Smt. Sheela Singh <br />
| parents =Late Shri Ramcheej Singh, Late Smt. Ramswaro Devi <br />
| children =1 Daughter<br />
| alma_mater = [[Jodhpur University]]<br />
| website =<br />
| footnotes =<br />
| date = 17 December<br />
| year = 2016<br />
| source = http://164.100.47.194/Loksabha/Members/MemberBioprofile.aspx?mpsno=4695<br />
}}<br />
'''Bharat Singh''' was a [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha]] from the [[Ballia (Lok Sabha constituency)]]. He is member of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]. He won the [[2014 Indian general elections]] from the [[Ballia (Lok Sabha constituency)|Ballia Lok Sabha constituency]] by defeating former [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] [[Chandra Shekhar]]'s son [[Neeraj Shekhar]] with a margin of 1,39,434 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://india.gov.in/my-government/indian-parliament/bharat-singh|title=National Portal India|access-date=30 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909223448/https://www.india.gov.in/my-government/indian-parliament/bharat-singh|archive-date=9 September 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/parliamentary-constituencies/ballia.html|title=Ballia Lok Sabha Elections and Results 2014}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Bharat Singh was born on 15 September 1948 in village Navka Tola in [[Bairia|Bairiya]] tehsil of [[Ballia district]] in [[Uttar Pradesh]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://myneta.info/ls2014/candidate.php?candidate_id=9218|title=Myneta, Election Watch}}</ref> His late father Ramcheej Singh was a simple farmer. Bharat Singh got his early education at his native village and went on to complete his graduation from [[Jodhpur]] University, [[Rajasthan]] in 1973. Bharat Singh entered in politics when he was a student of [[Banaras Hindu University]]. He got elected as President of [[Banaras Hindu University Students' Union]] in the year 1978.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.livehindustan.com/news//article1-story-425219.html|title=बीएचयू में सीखा ककहरा, अब लोकसभा में जमाएंगे रंग Live Hindustan}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://inextlive.jagran.com/bhu-student-union-politics-27374|title=बीएचयू में फिर गरमाने लगी स्टूडेंट यूनियन की राजनीति, Jagaran}}</ref><br />
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==Political career==<br />
Bharat Singh successfully contested [[2007 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election|Uttar Pradesh Assembly]] elections of 1991, 1996 and 2002 from [[Bairia|Bairiya]] assembly seat in [[Ballia]]. He served three terms as [[Member of Legislative Assembly]] (MLA). However he contested the Lok Sabha election of 2014 from [[Ballia]] as [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] Candidate and defeated the seating MP [[Neeraj Shekhar]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bjp.org/component/taxonomy/Bharat%20Singh|title=Bharat Singh, BJP}}</ref><br />
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==Posts Held==<br />
*[[General Secretary (education)|General Secretary]] of [[Banaras Hindu University Students' Union]], 1975<br />
*[[President (education)|President]] of [[Banaras Hindu University Students' Union]], 1978<br />
*[[Member of Legislative Assembly]] (MLA), Uttar Pradesh, 1991<br />
*[[Member of Legislative Assembly]] (MLA), Uttar Pradesh, 1996<br />
*[[Member of Legislative Assembly]] (MLA), Uttar Pradesh, 2002<br />
*[[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha]], [[Ballia (Lok Sabha constituency)]], 2014<br />
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[[File:The MP (Lok Sabha), Balliya, Uttar Pradesh, Shri Bharat Singh calling on the Union Minister for Railways, Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, in New Delhi on February 10, 2016.jpg|thumb]]<br />
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