[1][2] He is a Member of Parliament (MP) since 2014, representing Baghpat constituency, Uttar Pradesh in the 16th Lok Sabha and then retaining his seat in 2019 elections.
[3] Singh was born on 29 November 1955 in a Jat family of Tomar clan to Ramkishan and Hukmwati, in Basauli in Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh.
That tenure saw several encounter killings in Mumbai with specialists such as Daya Nayak, Pradeep Sharma and Vijay Salaskar given the licence to take on the underworld.
It was during this stint that the 25 August 2003 Mumbai bombings at Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar took place; he is credited with having been the officer at the helm when the case was detected.
On 31 January 2014 Singh tendered his resignation and applied for the voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) and sought to be relieved as soon as possible from his post so he could contest the upcoming national elections.
[15] Home Minister RR Patil, who belonged to the Nationalist Congress Party, announced that Dr Singh's application was accepted with immediate effect.
The Democratic Front government in Maharashtra was in a hurry to process the VRS application for voluntary retirement mainly to facilitate his joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and to possibly enable him to attend a rally in Meerut and join the party in the presence of Gujarat CM Narendra Modi and BJP chief Rajnath Singh.
Prior to him, his father Chaudhary Charan Singh, the former Prime Minister of India represented Baghpat in the Lok Sabha from 1977 till his death.
A patron of the club, Singh would often donate a month's salary to organise an annual tournament in the hope that drawing the youth to sports would prevent them from going astray and help in their job prospects as well.
In the Parliament, Singh has been vocal about farmers' issues, advocating the need to involve the farming community actively in drafting of the Union Budget.
[32] Speaking about the need of greater involvement of farmers in the decision making process at a seminar organised by the Council for Social Development, he said: "About 65 per cent of our population is still dependent on agriculture.
"[33]On 7 August 2014, Singh was named as a member of a special expert committee to review security of the Parliament House complex which was targeted by terrorists in 2001.
[citation needed] On 2 June 2014, a prostitution racket was busted by Mumbai police being run from a flat owned by Satya Pal Singh but leased out to a well known business house.
[42] Following the Shakti Mills gang rape of a photojournalist in Mumbai in August 2013, Singh was severely criticized by the public for defending moral policing.
A scholar of Vedic studies and Sanskrit, Singh regularly delivers lectures on spirituality, religious extremism, inter-religious harmony and corruption.
[45] Singh has started a campaign targeting college students to break the myths around religion and create awareness about Vedic literature which he believes is the divine order for world peace.
[46] He has been quoted as saying that but for his reading of the Satyarth Prakash, his knowledge and ability to discuss thorny issues threadbare would not have been there and perhaps he would not have made it to the high and coveted office that he is occupying today.
[8] The Urdu translation of this book was released by Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan along with poet-scriptwriter Javed Akhtar and the launch was hosted by Minorities Education Foundation in Mumbai.