Rakesh Sinha (born 5 September 1964) is a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha since July 2018, the upper house of the Parliament of India.

[6][7] Sinha was the founding Honorary director of India Policy Foundation (IPF),[8] a Delhi based think tank.

[23] He recently supported the statement of RSS chief which claimed that mob lynching was a foreign concept as Indian history does not mention any punishment for it.

[25] Also, he made his stand clear on new National Education Policy (NEP) by stating that it does not impose Hindi but only proposes to teach the children in their mother tongue.

[26] Sinha pursued his BA (Hons), MA and PhD in political science from the University of Delhi where he was a gold medalist.

[29] He studied his M Phil on civil liberties movement (particularly those originating from Andhra Pradesh) and later pursued his PhD research on the organisational and ideological transformation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

[37] Recently, Sinha has also criticised Romila Thapar, stating that historians like her have "undervalued and consciously rejected many of the achievements of ancient India".

[40] The Public Credit Registry of India Bill, 2019 was introduced on 6 December 2019 with an objective to create a Public Credit Registry (i.e. a single data repository) where information on borrowings from banks, non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), corporate bonds or debentures from the market, external commercial borrowings (ECBs), foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs), Masala bonds, and inter-corporate borrowings can be available.

[43][44] He further announced adoption of another three villages (Mawmang, Mawsohmad and Sder) adjoining Kongthong in September 2021 with an objective of sustainable development, upscaling livelihoods and improving the income of people [45] He has gifted modern toilets and sanitary pads vending machine to Kongthong village.