Ramdev Singh (8 October 1935 – 14 April 2022) was the first trade union leader (mazdoor neta)[3] of Hindalco Industries Limited, Renukoot of Aditya Birla Group.

[5] He led several strikes with thousands of workers against Hindalco management to reform laborers’ miserable conditions.

He got in touch with a famous leader and activist Raj Narain ji who went on to become a health minister in U. P.

[11] Raj Narain ji was the only person who defeated Indira Gandhi in the general elections of 1977.

[12] When Singh’s mother realised that he was working in dreadful conditions in the coal-field, she persuaded him to leave that job.

[citation needed] It was 1962, when Singh too shifted to Renukoot and joined Hindalco as a wager.

He was assigned to work in pot room where furnaces were emitting unbearable heat.

He told Singh to go and earn crores of rupees, then come to question the Birla group.

Singh replied that if there are crores in Birla's treasury, it is because we are working hard to make him rich.

[citation needed] Then workers learned that Ramdev Singh was stopped at the gate for questioning the management.

Almost all workers of Hindalco sat at the gate demanding entry of Ramdev Singh into the factory.

After some months, Singh made the first trade union in Hindalco and built an office by raising wooden planks and putting tin shade over it.

He came out of Hindalco but did not give up on his fight for workers; however he started meeting with leaders and influential people to get support in this movement.

[15][16][17] After constant talks and meetings with the Hindalco management over the interests of workers, Singh decided to go on strike.

On the call of Ramdev Singh, all the workers of Hindalco left their job and joined his strike.

People often say, it was historic and it happened for the first & last time when chimneys of Hindalco stopped emitting smoke.

They terminated 318 people from the job and published their names on notice boards and local newspapers.

Charan Singh, Chandra Shekhar, socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia, Jayaprakash Narayan and George Fernandes.

[citation needed] Former Union minister Raj Narain was his close friend who always stood beside Ramdev Singh.

Several influential leaders started coming to his home in Pipari (Renukoot), which scared the management badly.

[23] Ramdev Singh had got an appointment to meet the then Prime minister Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri.

He was political mentor of former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Ram Naresh Yadav.

Once in his older age, Ramdev babu fell seriously ill and was admitted at a hospital in Lucknow.

When Ram Naresh ji learned about his political guru's health, he hurriedly came to meet him without caring about any protocol.

When Raj Narain found out about this, he came to meet his long time friend Ramdev Singh.

After persuasion by many people including Raj Narain ji, Ramdev Babu agreed to join the factory.

He will write a biography of his father to tell the world about his life's journey and struggle dedicated to laborers.