Abhay Singh (politician)

Singh was born to Bhagwan Bux Singh in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh on 24 May 1974. He completed his graduation from Lucknow University in 1994. He married Sarita Singh on 30 November 2001, with whom he has two daughters and a son. Hailing from Ayodhya city, Singh is an agriculturalist by profession.^[1][5][6]

Active in the politics of Goshainganj, Singh as a Samajwadi Party candidate defeated Bahujan Samaj Party's Indra Pratap Tiwari in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, but lost to the latter in 2017, who had joined Bharatiya Janata Party prior to the election.^[3][7]

In the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Singh again representing Samajwadi Party from Goshainganj, defeated Bharatiya Janata Party's Aarti Tiwari, wife of incarcerated incumbent MLA Indra Pratap Tiwari, by a margin of 13,079 votes.^[3][8][9]

On 23 June 2025, Singh was expelled from Samajwadi Party, along with two other members, for working against party principles and voting in favour of the rival BJP in the February 2024 Rajya Sabha elections.^[10] The party, however, did not cancel their assembly memberships, rendering them as "unaffiliated MLAs".^[4]