Brijesh Kumar Singh (also known as Arun) is an Indian Mafia Don turned politician[1] and a former Member of Uttar Pradesh legislative council as an independent candidate.
Brijesh Singh started his political career in year 2012 while being lodged in jail by contesting Assembly elections from Saiyadraja Vidhan Sabha as a candidate of PMSP but lost by margin of 2,016 votes.
Then he contested the Legislative Council elections in 2016 as an independent candidate from his ancestral Varanasi seat[2] which his wife and elder brother represented earlier and won by a margin of 1,954 votes and became MLC.
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