The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has nominated
Pankaj Singh from the Noida constituency for the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly
elections. Singh is the sitting MLA from Noida and is the party’s General
Secretary for Uttar Pradesh.

Born on December 12, 1978, Singh is the elder
son of Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and has been active in politics since
2002. Singh completed his Post Graduation Diploma in Management from Amity
Business School, Noida, in 2001. He completed his B.com from the Dayal Singh
College in Delhi University in 1999. He completed schooling at the Mahanagar
Boys Inter College in Lucknow, passing class 12th in 1996.

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Singh has declared his total assets at Rs 4.8
crore, while submitting Rs 12 lakh as his liabilities. His assets include over Rs
2.5 crore in immovable assets and more than Rs 2.3 crore in moveable assets.
Singh has also declared self-income of Rs 3.7 lakh and total income of Rs 22.7
lakh.

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Singh contested the 2017 assembly elections
from Noida and defeated Samajwadi Party candidate Sunil Choudhary by a margin
of 1,04,016 votes. Noida has been a stronghold of the BJP ever since its
inception and was represented by Mahesh Sharma (2012-14) and Vimla Batham
(2014-17) in the 16th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh.

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In the 2017 elections, all 15 candidates
contesting the Noida seat were men. This time around, the Congress has fielded
Pankhuri Pathak from the constituency, who was earlier a member of the
Samajwadi Party. The SP-RLD alliance has fielded Sunil Choudhary from the seat.

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As many as 623 candidates will contest from
58 constituencies in the first phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh – on February
10. Around 2.27 crore people are eligible to vote in this phase. A total of 403
assembly constituencies are going to polls in seven phases, with results set to
be declared on March 10.