Ameeta Singh
Ameeta Singh | |
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| Member of Legislative Assembly, Uttar Pradesh | |
| In office 2002–2012 | |
| Succeeded by | Gayatri Prasad Prajapati |
| Constituency | Amethi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ameeta Kulkarni 4 October 1962 |
| Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Other political affiliations | Indian National Congress |
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| Occupation | Politician, former national badminton champion, former Education Minister |
| Known for | President Delhi Capital Badminton Association, All India Professional Congress, Social work, Vice Chairman RRSGI group of Institutions, Amethi and Bronze medal winner Asian Games 1982 |
Ameeta Sinh (born Amita Kulkarni on 4 October 1962) is a politician from the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, who was formerly a national badminton champion. She has been Chairman of Jilla Panchayat in Amethi/Sultanpur district and has been elected three times as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Amethi Vidhan Sabha constituency in the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. She was minister of state in the Government of Uttar Pradesh.
After the murder of her first husband Syed Modi, in whose murder she and her future husband Sanjay Sinh were accused, she went on to marry Sanjay Sinh, a Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) and Indian National Congress politician, at various times, from Amethi who is close to the Nehru-Gandhi family and a descendant, by adoption, of the former royal family of Amethi.