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Doctor Digamber Singh | |
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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 | Barkhera Faujdar, Bharatpur, Rajasthan | 1 October 1951
Died | 27 October 2017 Jaipur, Rajasthan, India | (aged 66)
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) |
Parent | Ramkali Devi (Mother) Jawahar Singh (Father) |
Residence(s) | ‘Bharatpur House’, 354-55, Hanuman Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan |
Education | SN Medical College |
Profession | Gynaecologist |
Cabinet | First Raje Ministry |
Committees | 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.
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