Dhan Singh Rawat (born 7 October 1972) is a Cabinet Minister[1][2][3] of Uttarakhand and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

[4][5][6] Dhan Singh Rawat was born in a hamlet in Pauri Garhwal and educated at the village school.

[7] A party secretary for the BJP in Uttarakhand,[8] he failed to gain election to the state legislature in 2012 in the constituency of Srinagar Garhwal;[7] he entered the legislature in 2017[9] and has since served as a Cabinet Minister with responsibility for health, higher education,[10] cooperatives, disaster management, dairy development and protocols.

[11] Dhan Singh Rawat has landed into controversy after he purportedly said in a viral video that the government was thinking of "using an app to control the intensity of rainfall".

The statement is believed to have been made at a recent media interaction which detailed steps taken by the government to tackle rain-related damage.