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Dr. Digamber Singh
दिगम्बर सिंह
Singh in 2016
Chairman of the Twenty Point Programme
In office 3 May 2015 - 27 October 2017
Preceded by
Vasundhara Raje
Succeeded by
Chandrabhan (INC)
Cabinet Minister Panchayati Raj, Social Justice, Law and Agriculture, Government of Rajasthan
In office 8 August 2016 - 27 October 2017
Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Rajasthan
In office 2013 - 2015
Cabinet Minister for Industries, Government of Rajasthan
In office 2008 - 2009
Succeeded by
Shanti Dhariwal, INC
Cabinet Minister for Health, Ayurveda and Family Welfare, Government of Rajasthan
In office 2003 - 2008
Succeeded by
Narpat Singh Rajvi, BJP
Member of Legislative Assembly, Kumher
In office 1993 - 2013
Succeeded by
Vishvendra Singh, INC
Constituency
Deeg-Kumher
President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Bharatpur
In office 1991 - 1994
Personal details
Born
(1951-10-01)1 October 1951 Barkhera Faujdar, Bharatpur, Rajasthan
Died
27 October 2017(2017-10-27) (aged 66) Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Resting place
Dr. Digamber Singh ‘Samadhi’, Bharatpur, Rajasthan
Nationality
Indian
Political party
Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse
Asha Singh[1]
Children
2; Dr. Shilpi Singh (daughter) and Shailesh Digamber Singh (Son)
Business Advisory Committee, 1998 - 2003; as Chairman, 2003 - 2009.
Committee on Welfare of Women & Children, 2003 - 2008.
Committee on Local Bodies and Panchayati Raj Institutions, 2008 - 2013.
Committee on Public Accounts, as Chairman, 2008 - 2013.
Awards
Lohagarh Sapoot Award 2006
Digamber Singh (1 October 1951 - 27 October 2017)[2] was an Indian politician, who served as a Cabinet Minister in the Government of Rajasthan.[3] Singh spent over two decades as a Member of the Legislative Assembly,[4] representing the Kumher Assembly constituency, later renamed as Deeg-Kumher.[5][6] He held numerous imperative Cabinet portfolios in the Government of Rajasthan, including Minister of Health,[4][3] Ayurveda, Family Welfare and from 2009 onwards as the Minister of Industries.[7]
He was the Chairman of the Twenty Point Programme and held additional charges of the Ministries of Panchayati raj, Law, Agriculture and Social justice in the Government of Rajasthan.[8] A prominent Jat leader, Singh was considered the face of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Eastern Rajasthan.
^"नहीं रहीं स्व. डॉ दिगंबर सिंह की धर्मपत्नी आशा सिंह, अंत्येष्टि में शामिल हुए कई भाजपा नेता" [BJP leader late Digamber Singh wife Asha Singh died in Bharatpur]. Patrika News (in Hindi). 31 August 2021. Archived from the original on 9 February 2023. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
^"Former Rajasthan minister Digamber Singh passes away". 27 October 2017. Archived from the original on 6 February 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
^ abBohra, Sanjay (13 November 2017). "BJP looks for prominent Jat leaders in Rajasthan". The Asian Age. Archived from the original on 24 March 2023. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
^ abCite error: The named reference patrika-death was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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^"Inaugural Address By Dr Samlee Plianbangchang Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia" (PDF). World Health Organization. September 2007. p. 1. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
^"राज्य सरकार ने दिगंबर सिंह को बनाया बीसूका उपाध्यक्ष, कैबिनेट मंत्री का दर्जा | Digambar singh became bisuka in jaipur - Dainik Bhaskar". Archived from the original on 24 March 2023. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
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