Rao Birendra Singh

Rao Birender Singh Yadav
2nd Chief Minister of Haryana
In office 24 March 1967 – 2 November 1967
Preceded by	Bhagwat Dayal Sharma
Succeeded by	President's rule
Personal details
Political party	Vishal Haryana Party

Rao Birender Singh (b 20 February 1921 - died: 30 September 2009) was an Indian politician. He served first as a minister in the state government of Punjab. He served as Chief Minister of Haryana for a few months (March to November) in 1967, and also served as a minister in Punjab state, Haryana state and the Union cabinet. He also served as the first speaker of Haryana state assembly in 1966-67.

Birendra Singh was born in the village of Nangal Pathani in present-day Haryana as the son of Bahal Singh, an affluent land-owner who belonged to a branch of the royal family of Rewari. His family link attached to a kshatriya rajput yaduvanshi(jadaun)king was married a ahir girl in offer overtime this this family was also called him ahir ,and accepted ahir cast , At a relatively young age, he was given in adoption by his father to Rao Balbir Singh, the titular ruler of Rewari, who did not have a son or heir of his own. Rao Balbir Singh was the son of Rao Yudhishthir Singh,t his family who was the eldest son and heir of Rao Tula Ram, last actual ruler of Rewari. Rao Tula Ram had fought against the British during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and had thereby lost his lands after the British forces had prevailed over the rebels. The dynasty belongs to the (Ahir)sudra caste.

After his adoption, Birendra Singh was taken away from the village where he grew up and sent to boarding school in Dehradun, to receive an education appropriate to his new status and future responsibilities. He attended the Col. Brown Cambridge School in Dehradun and graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. He also enrolled in the Territorial Army during the Second World War.

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