[3][4] Later he rejoined the BJP.In the 2017 state assembly elections, he defeated Dinesh Dhanai,[5] then Cabinet Minister by a large margin.

Dhan Singh Negi was born in 1970 as the youngest child of a poor family in Palkot, a remote village in Patti Lamridhar, Tehri Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh (now Uttarakhand), India.

He was a member of Badri-Kedar Temple Committee and was chairman of the Aanchal Milk Cooperative Society in Tehri Garhwal from 2009 to 2012.

[6] In April 2017 he declared that he would donate half of his salary to support the marriages of daughters of widows, disabled and poor people.

[7] He also presided over the Public Sector Units & Municipal Oversight and the Information Technology Policy committees of the Uttarakhand Assembly.