Bishan Singh Chuphal

Bishan Singh Chuphal (born 13 May 1955), also knowns as Vishan Singh, is an Indian politician from Uttarakhand.[1] He is a six time member of Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from^[1][2] from the Didihat constituency in Pithoragarh district.^[3] He is from Bharatiya Janata Party.

He is from Didihat, Pithoragarh District, Uttarakhand. He is the son of Narayan Singh, a farmer. He completed his M.A. in 1976 and B.Ed. in 1977 at Kumaun University, Nainital.^[4]

Chuphal first became an MLA winning the 1996 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election from Didihat Assembly constituency which was part of UP before the formation of Uttarakhand state. In 1996, he defeated Kashi Singh Airy of UKD.

Later, he won the 2002 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election representing the Bharatiya Janata Party defeating Ghanshyam Joshi of th UKD. He retained the seat for the third time in the 2007 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election defeating Hem Pant of the Indian National Congress and won the 2012 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election defeating Rewati Joshi, also of the Indian National Congress. He again won the Didihat seat in the 2017 election beating Kishan Bhandari, an independent candidate. He won for the sixth consecutive time when he defeated Kishan Bhandari, an independent candidate again in the 2022 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election.^[5][6][7]