Thakur Umashankar Singh is an Indian politician and a member of the 16th and 17th Legislative Assembly, Uttar Pradesh of India. He represents the Rasara constituency in Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh. He is presently the only MLA from the BSP in Uttar Pradesh.
Umashankar Singh was born on 2 January 1971 in Khanwar, a village of Rasra, Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, to Shri. Ghurahu Singh, who served in the Indian Army and retired as an ex-army personnel. Belonging to a farmer family, he completed his basic education in government schools and later joined Satish Chand College, Ballia. He started his career as a student leader and contested the student union election in SC college in the year 1991 and won the election by the highest margin ever.
Umashankar Singh contested the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election in 2017 as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate and defeated his close contestant Ram Iqbal Singh from Bharatiya Janata Party with a margin of 33,887 votes. He won the 2012 Assembly election against Sangram Singh Yadav by a large margin.
In February 2016, he organized the group marriages of 351 Hindus and Muslims. (Celebrated in <u>Nath Baba Mandir</u>).
Since 1 January 2017, MLA Umashankar Singh created 40 free wi-fi hotspots for the public to use in Rasra, Ballia constituency.