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.
[3] Sinh graduated from Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Faizabad, in 2003 and was awarded a PhD in sociology by the same institution in 2011.
[citation needed] In 2012, Singh stood as an INC candidate in the Amethi constituency during the state legislative assembly elections of that year.
[10] She contested the Sultanpur Lok Sabha constituency as an INC candidate for a seat in the Parliament of India in 2014 but finished third, with the winner being Varun Gandhi of the BJP.
[11] In the 2017 Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly elections, Sinh contested the Amethi constituency as an INC candidate and had Garima Singh as one of her opponents, standing for the BJP.
The BJP hoped to win the seat by exploiting local sympathy for Garima, who is a relative of V. P. Singh, a former Prime Minister of India.