Nawab Singh Nagar

Nawab Singh Nagar
Member (MLA) of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
In office 1996–2007
Preceded by	Sameer Bhati
Succeeded by	Satveer Singh Gurjar
Constituency	Dadri
Personal details
Born	1 January 1960
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Alma mater	Meerut University
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Business

Nawab Singh Nagar is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Nagar is a former Minister in Government of Uttar Pradesh and served twice as MLA from Dadri (1996-2007). He is currently the chairperson of Lal Bahadur Shastri Sugarcane Development Board^[1][2] and also the Vice-President of Uttar Pradesh BJP.^[3][4]

History

Nawab Singh Nagar joined RSS during his college days and eventually joined BJP in the mid-1980s as the party was formed. He contested his first assembly election from Dadri Constituency in 1993 on BJP symbol but lost to Sameer Bhati. He won his first election in 1996 defeating Sameer Bhati in the same constituency. In 2002, he was elected again. As BJP formed government in 2002, Nawab Singh was appointed the State Irrigation Minister. Nagar lost assembly election in 2007 to BSP candidate Satveer Gurjar. In 2013, he was appointed the National Vice President of BJP Kisan Morcha.^[5]

When BJP was formed in 1980, Nawab Singh Nagar was appointed the first Mandal president of Noida.^[6]

Social works

Nagar has successfully campaigned against many government policies such as an increase in stamp duty and the transfer of Noida city funds outside the city. During the Ayodhya protest, he was detained by police for 21 days in Saharanpur Jail. He was also detained for challenging then Noida Authority Chairperson Neera Yadav and sent to custody in Meerut. He was jailed several times and arrested a dozen times for his involvement in farmers' rights agitation and District reinstatement protests.^[8] He also started agitation against hike in electricity charges in Noida in January 2016.

Nagar started protesting against the toll collection on DND Flyway in 2014 and held many strikes. In 2015, he organised a massive car rally to raise awareness against it. On 28 August 2016, he started an indefinite protest against the toll and was arrested on the following day^[9] after staging an overnight protest and making DND toll free for two days.^[10][11] On 26 October 2016, the Supreme Court of India ordered that the flyaway should be toll free.^[12]

On 27 December 2016, Nagar protested against the exploitation of 21,000 land allottees by Yamuna authority and filed a Public Interest Litigation in Allahabad High Court.^[14] The protest was successful as the allotment was started by the authority within few weeks.^[15]

Controversies

In 2015, Nawab Singh Nagar came into limelight when he justified the infamous Dadri lynching^[16] of Mohammad Akhlaq by locals due to consumption of beef and called the accused as "innocent kids", which created a huge outrage accusing him of aggravating the violent situation.^[17][18][19] In 2017, there was a huge protest by the supporters of Nawab Singh when BJP denied him MLA ticket from Dadri Constituency.^[20] His angry supporters accused Gautam Budh Nagar Lok Sabha MP Mahesh Sharma of using his veto power against Nawab Singh since Mahesh Sharma was afraid of Nagar's stronghold in his constituency.^{[21][22][23][24]}

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