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{{Short description|Indian politician (1952–2024)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| image = Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh 2014-06-05 15-48.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date|1952|12|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Ratupura]], [[Moradabad]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India
| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|4|20|1952|12|22|df=y}}
| death_place = [[New Delhi]], India
| office1 = [[Member of Legislative Assembly]] from [[Thakurdwara]]
| term_start1 = {{Start date|1991|06|24|df=yes}}
| term_end1 = {{End date|2007|05|13|df=yes}}
| predecessor1 = Mohammadulla Khan
| successor1 = Vijay Yadav
| term_start2 = {{Start date|2012|03|06|df=yes}}
| term_end2 = {{End date|2014|05|21|df=yes}}
| predecessor2 = Vijay Yadav
| successor2 = Nawab Jaan Khan
| office3 = [[Member of Parliament]] from [[Moradabad (Lok Sabha constituency)|Moradabad]]
| term_start3 = {{Start date|2014|05|21|df=yes}}
| term_end3 = {{End date|2019|05|23|df=yes}}
| predecessor3 = [[Mohammad Azharuddin]]
| successor3 = [[S. T. Hasan]]
| party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| children = [[Kunwar Sushant Singh]], one daughter
| spouse = Smt. Sadhna Singh
| residence = Ram Mahal, Village Ratupura, Thakurdwara, Moradabad
| occupation = Politician
| alma_mater = [[Kedar Nath Girdharilal Khatri PG College Moradabad|K.G.K Inter College, Moradabad]]
| caption = Singh in 2014
| name = Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh
}}

'''Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh''' (also known as '''Rakesh Singh''', 22 December 1952 – 20 April 2024), was an Indian businessman who served as the [[Member of Parliament]] from [[Moradabad|Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh]], from [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]. He was a veteran politician from [[Western Uttar Pradesh]] who belonged to [[Thakur (Indian title)|Thakur]] ([[Rajput]]) caste. He was one of the [[Bahubali]] politicians in [[Uttar Pradesh]]. He was a five-term MLA from Thakurdwara from 1991 to 2007 and 2012<ref>{{Cite web|title=Results|url=http://eciresults.nic.in/statewiseS24.htm?st=S24|website=NIC|access-date=16 May 2014|archive-date=17 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517135203/http://eciresults.nic.in/statewiseS24.htm?st=S24|url-status=dead}}</ref> to 2014 till he was elected as MP from Moradabad Lok Sabha General Election in 2014. His son [[Kunwar Sushant Singh]] is currently BJP MLA from [[Barhapur (Assembly constituency)|Barhapur]].

==Political life==
His father, [[Ram Pal Singh]] was three term MLA from [[Thakurdwara]] and one term MP from [[Amroha]]. In 1991, he won his ancestral seat of Thakurdwara as the BJP candidate and remained until 2007 when Vijay Yadav from BSP won Thakurdwara. He contested from BJP in the Lok Sabha election in 2009 in Moradabad but lost to [[Mohammad Azharuddin]]. He contested the 2012 legislative election in Thakurdwara as the BJP candidate and won. He served as five term MLA from Thakurdwara till 2014 during Lok Sabha elections, he was nominated from [[Moradabad]] and he defeated [[Samajwadi Party]] candidate by a margin of 87,504 votes. He was the first BJP MP after independence to serve from Moradabad.<ref>{{Cite web|title=मुरादाबाद की इस सीट पर चलता है राजतंत्र!|url=https://www.livehindustan.com/news/article/article1-story-213630.html|access-date=2020-09-24|website=Hindustan|language=hi|archive-date=19 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519075208/https://www.livehindustan.com/news/article/article1-story-213630.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Properties==
Singh owned and lived in an ancestral haveli in Ratupura Village. He owned many colleges, schools and farms and orchards in [[Thakurdwara]], [[Kashipur, Uttarakhand|Kashipur]] and [[Moradabad]] through his father's trust (Babu Rampal Singh Trust).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh की सबसे ताज़ा खबर|url=https://www.amarujala.com/tags/kunwar-sarvesh-kumar-singh|access-date=2020-09-24|website=Amar Ujala|language=hi}}</ref>

==Kanth violence incident, 2014==
After parliamentary elections in 2014, though he won the Lok Sabha constituency by a difference of 87,504 he entered lost from his own ruling Thakurdwara Vidhan Sabha Seat by difference of 475 votes. [[Kanth, Moradabad|Kanth]], another nearby Vidhan Sabha seat an incident pertains to the removal of a loudspeaker from the [[Sant Ravidas]] [[temple]] in Akbarpur Chaderi in Kanth.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Moradabad clash: Police blame BJP, village says people from outside came- Indian Express|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/moradabad-clash-police-blame-bjp-village-says--people-from-outside-came-/1267141/|access-date=2020-09-24|website=archive.indianexpress.com}}</ref> The temple attracts a large number of [[Dalit]] devotees and the loudspeaker, according to locals, had been there for several years. In early June, however, people of the [[Muslim community]] had in a written representation demanded that it be removed. The administration did not try to solve the dispute by involving elders of the two communities, and instead on Thursday, 26 June, a police team broke open the lock on its gate, entered into the temple and removed the [[loudspeaker]]. According to eyewitnesses, the policemen thrashed men and women who protested, and later arrested about a dozen people including women.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-04-15|title=It will be difficult to retain Moradabad: BJP candidate|url=https://www.deccanherald.com/lok-sabha-election-2019/it-will-be-difficult-to-retain-moradabad-bjp-candidate-728786.html|access-date=2020-09-24|website=Deccan Herald|language=en|archive-date=21 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021165242/https://www.deccanherald.com/lok-sabha-election-2019/it-will-be-difficult-to-retain-moradabad-bjp-candidate-728786.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-07-05|title=Situation tense but under control in Moradabad|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/situation-tense-but-under-control-in-moradabad/story-yg1koTd2MDInCaRxVETyjM.html|access-date=2020-09-24|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|archive-date=21 April 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240421033408/https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/situation-tense-but-under-control-in-moradabad/story-yg1koTd2MDInCaRxVETyjM.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The next day (Friday 27 June) a demonstration was held in main Kanth market and the crowd blocked the Moradabad-Hardwar road. The crowd was demanding that the loudspeaker be reinstalled and the arrested people be released. Amid the inaction of the police and administration, some people announced that they would install the loudspeaker themselves, and then the police cracked down on them. In the ensuing fracas several were injured. It is reported that the police went berserk after this, dragged people out of their homes and arrested them.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kanth Violence: BJP Attacks UP Govt For Discrimination|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/story/kanth-violence-bjp-attacks-up-govt-for-discrimination/848601|access-date=2020-09-24|website=outlookindia.com/}}</ref> It is said that after 26 June, district and police officials tried to win over a section of the BJP leaders and even the Moradabad MP Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh, to come up with a compromise. However, as this news spread and the hardline [[Hindu Jagaran Manch]] took the matter into its own hands. The BJP then jumped into the fray and called for a mahapanchayat on this issue on 4 July.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sarvesh Singh Seepu News and Updates from The Economic Times - Page 3|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Sarvesh-Singh-Seepu/news/3/3|access-date=2020-09-24|website=The Economic Times|archive-date=19 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519075201/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/Sarvesh-Singh-Seepu/news/3/3|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Moradabad (Lok Sabha constituency)|Moradabad MP]] Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh, [[Amroha (Lok Sabha constituency)|Amroha MP]] Kunwar Singh Tanwar, [[Sambhal (Lok Sabha constituency)|Sambhal MP]] Satyapal Saini, [[Rampur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Rampur MP]] Nepal Singh, MLA Sangeet Som and their supporters were briefly detained when they were arriving for the mahapanchayat. [[Sangeet Som]] is also an accused in the [[Muzaffarnagar#2013 Muzaffarnagar riots|Muzaffarangar Riots]]. Moradabad district magistrate Chandrakant was seriously injured Friday when a mob threw stones at policemen after the BJP leaders' arrest.<ref>{{Cite web|date=July 5, 2014|title=Moradabad violence: BJP leaders refused to heed advice, says SSP|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/moradabad-violence-bjp-leaders-refused-to-heed-advice-says-ssp-199405-2014-07-05|access-date=2020-09-24|website=India Today|language=en|archive-date=21 April 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240421033428/https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/moradabad-violence-bjp-leaders-refused-to-heed-advice-says-ssp-199405-2014-07-05|url-status=live}}</ref> The official was sent to hospital for a serious head and eye injury. BJP supporters fought at Kanth as police carried out lathi charge, lobbed teargas shells and shot blanks in the air to disperse the crowds which had stopped some trains. The district administration was more intent on stopping the mahapanchayat rather than solving the issue, he said. The state BJP has constituted a four-member team that will look into the incident and submit a report to the party leadership. [[Senior Superintendent of Police]] (SSP) of Moradabad, Dharamvir Yadav, in an uncharacteristically political statement, on Saturday blamed the [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] for the tense situation in Kanth, and said that BJP MP Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh had wanted to "polarise the situation ahead of the by-elections to be held in the state." He said the BJP's mahapanchayat call had only added to the already volatile situation.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-07-06|title=Will Moradabad be another Muzaffarnagar? BJP, SP play blame game again|url=https://www.firstpost.com/india/will-moradabad-be-another-muzaffarnagar-bjp-sp-play-blame-game-again-1605351.html|access-date=2020-09-24|website=Firstpost|archive-date=29 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329112756/https://www.firstpost.com/india/will-moradabad-be-another-muzaffarnagar-bjp-sp-play-blame-game-again-1605351.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2014-07-05|title=BJP condemns Moradabad SSP's statement over Kanth violence|work=Business Standard India|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/bjp-condemns-moradabad-ssp-s-statement-over-kanth-violence-114070500560_1.html|access-date=2020-09-24|archive-date=19 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519080707/https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/bjp-condemns-moradabad-ssp-s-statement-over-kanth-violence-114070500560_1.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=BJP, Congress leaders detained for protesting against violence in Kanth|work=The Economic Times|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/bjp-congress-leaders-detained-for-protesting-against-violence-in-kanth/articleshow/39064391.cms|access-date=2020-09-24|archive-date=19 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519075156/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/bjp-congress-leaders-detained-for-protesting-against-violence-in-kanth/articleshow/39064391.cms|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Personal life and death==
Singh was born on 22 December 1952 to Raja Rampal Singh. He married Kunwarani Sadhna Singh of Kookra Estate on 26 May 1983; they had one daughter and one son, [[Kunwar Sushant Singh]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar(Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)):Constituency- MORADABAD(UTTAR PRADESH) - Affidavit Information of Candidate|url=https://www.myneta.info/LokSabha2019/candidate.php?candidate_id=7442|access-date=2020-09-24|website=myneta.info|archive-date=29 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029083231/https://myneta.info/LokSabha2019/candidate.php?candidate_id=7442|url-status=live}}</ref>

As the titular Maharaja of Saupari, he had strong relations with Haldaur Estate and other Bijnor's princely states.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bring out the Thematic Significance of Kunwar Singh|url=https://olladenuria.cat/forum/29d3db-supreme-fall/29d3db-bring-out-the-thematic-significance-of-kunwar-singh|access-date=2020-09-24|website=olladenuria.cat}}{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Singh died from a heart attack at the [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi|All India Institute of Medical Sciences]] in Delhi, on 20 April 2024. He was 71.<ref>{{cite news |title=BJP Lok Sabha candidate from UP's Moradabad Kunwar Sarvesh Singh passes away |url=https://www.indiatodayne.in/national/story/bjp-lok-sabha-candidate-from-ups-moradabad-kunwar-sarvesh-singh-passes-away-985106-2024-04-20 |access-date=21 April 2024 |publisher=India Today NE |date=20 April 2024 |archive-date=20 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420173119/https://www.indiatodayne.in/national/story/bjp-lok-sabha-candidate-from-ups-moradabad-kunwar-sarvesh-singh-passes-away-985106-2024-04-20 |url-status=live }}</ref> At the time of his death, Singh was the [[Bharatiya Janata Party, Sikkim|BJP's]] candidate for [[Moradabad Lok Sabha constituency|Moradabad Lok Sabha Constituency]]. Voting for the Moradabad seat took place a day before his death. The late BJP nominee did not participate in his own election campaign due to ongoing health conditions.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-20 |title=BJP candidate from UP's Moradabad Kunwar Sarvesh Singh dies at 71 |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/elections/lok-sabha/story/kunwar-sarvesh-singh-death-bjp-moradabad-candidate-uttar-pradesh-2529671-2024-04-20 |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=India Today |language=en |archive-date=20 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420153111/https://www.indiatoday.in/elections/lok-sabha/story/kunwar-sarvesh-singh-death-bjp-moradabad-candidate-uttar-pradesh-2529671-2024-04-20 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sharma |first=Sheenu |date=2024-04-20 |title=BJP Lok Sabha candidate from UP's Moradabad 71-year-old Kunwar Sarvesh Singh dies, CM Yogi offer condolences |url=https://www.indiatvnews.com/uttar-pradesh/uttar-pradesh-bjp-moradabad-candidate-kunwar-sarvesh-singh-dies-lok-sabha-elections-2024-up-cm-yogi-adityanath-condolence-express-grief-latest-update-2024-04-20-927212 |access-date=2024-04-20 |website=www.indiatvnews.com |language=en |archive-date=20 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240420152057/https://www.indiatvnews.com/uttar-pradesh/uttar-pradesh-bjp-moradabad-candidate-kunwar-sarvesh-singh-dies-lok-sabha-elections-2024-up-cm-yogi-adityanath-condolence-express-grief-latest-update-2024-04-20-927212 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Legacy==
Singh was the first post-independence MP from BJP serving from Moradabad. He was the only serving MLA from Thakurdwara for serving the most from this constituency in Assembly Elections for five terms all on BJP tickets.<ref>{{Cite web|title=मुरादाबाद की इस सीट पर चलता है राजतंत्र!|url=https://www.livehindustan.com/news/article/article1-story-213630.html|access-date=2020-09-24|website=Hindustan|language=hi|archive-date=19 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519075208/https://www.livehindustan.com/news/article/article1-story-213630.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He launched several developmental schemes in this region and has also tried hard to get loan facility better for farmers, small businesses and large businesses.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}} For that he has involved various national as well as regional banks in his prospective financial projects. This parliamentarian has worked on a number of developmental projects and constructive activities,<ref>{{Cite web|date=18 June 2016|first=Harveer|last=Dabas|title=Gadkari gives nod to 106-km road from Moradabad to Kotdwar|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/meerut/Gadkari-gives-nod-to-106-km-road-from-Moradabad-to-Kotdwar/articleshow/52813302.cms|access-date=2020-09-24|website=The Times of India|language=en|archive-date=8 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108050254/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/meerut/Gadkari-gives-nod-to-106-km-road-from-Moradabad-to-Kotdwar/articleshow/52813302.cms|url-status=live}}</ref> which include the laying foundation of schools/colleges, appointing of school teachers, civic buildings, long-delayed bridges, getting roads constructed and qualified doctors working in primary health centres in Moradabad. He has also donated much money to NGO Janata Shiksha Prasar Samiti for development of this region.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-12-26|title=Sarvesh Kumar Singh|url=https://ourneta.com/neta/kunwar-sarvesh-kumar-singh/|access-date=2020-09-24|website=Our Neta|language=en-US|archive-date=23 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423105358/https://ourneta.com/neta/kunwar-sarvesh-kumar-singh/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Posts held in Parliament==
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! # !! Position
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| 01 ||Member, Standing Committee on Energy<ref>{{Cite web|title=Biography|url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/Members/Biography.aspx?mpsno=4778|website=LSS News}}</ref>
|-
| 02 ||Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Power and New and Renewable Energy<ref>{{Cite web|title=Member|url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/Members/Biography.aspx?mpsno=4778|website=LSS News}}</ref>
|-
|}

==See also==
*[[Kunwar Sushant Singh]]
*[[Manoj Kumar Chauhan (Indian civil servant)|Manoj Kumar Chauhan]]
*[[Kunwar Bhartendra Singh]]

==References==
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[[Category:1952 births]]
[[Category:2024 deaths]]
[[Category:Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1991–1993]]
[[Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1993–1996]]
[[Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1997–2002]]
[[Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2002–2007]]
[[Category:People from Moradabad district]]
[[Category:India MPs 2014–2019]]
[[Category:Lok Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2012–2017]]

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