Dr. Raman Singh
| Dr. Raman Singh | |
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| Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh | |
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Assumed office 7 December 2003 |
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| Governor | Balram Das Tandon |
| Preceded by | Ajit Jogi |
| Constituency | Rajnandgaon |
| Union Minister of State Commerce and Industry | |
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In office 13 December 1999 – 29 January 2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
15 October 1952 Kawardha, Madhya Pradesh, India (now in Chhattisgarh, India) |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Spouse(s) | Veena Singh |
| Children |
Abhishek Singh Asmita Singh |
| Residence | Civil Lines, Raipur [Cg.] 492001 |
Raman Singh (born 15 October 1952) is an Indian politician and is the current Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh state since 7 December 2003. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Dr. Raman Singh was born on 15 October 1952 in a Rajput family as the son of Vighnaharan Singh Thakur and Sudha Singh. "Raman Singh". India Today. </ref>
Singh joined the Bharatiya Jan Sangh as a youth member and was the president of youth wing in Kawardha in 1976-77. He progressed to become a councillor of Kawardha municipality in 1983.
He was elected to Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly consecutively in 1990 and 1993. In 1999 he was elected to the 13th Lok Sabha from the Rajnandgaon constituency in Chhattisgarh. In the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Singh became the Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry from 1999 to 2003. In present, he is the minister of General Administration, Finance, Electronics & Information Technology, Public Relations, Mining, Energy, Aviation and other departments which are not allotted to any Minister. He was later named as President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the new state of Chhattisgarh, and led the party to a victory in the 2003 state Assembly elections. With the other main contender for the Chief Minister's post, Dilip Singh Judeo, caught in the midst of a scam, the BJP leadership named Raman Singh as Chhattisgarh's second Chief Minister, and the first person to be elected to that post.
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