Raja Bhaiya aka Raghuraj Pratap Singh
Raja Bhaiya aka Raghuraj Pratap Singh is one of the prominent figures in the Political Map of Uttar Pradesh. He has been an Independent MLA  from Kunda for  five consecutive times.  He also has a significant criminal records and charges of Terrorism has also been imposed upon him. Last he was made a cabinet Minister in the UP Government led by Akhilesh Yadav, but has to resign after his name surfaced in the murder case of a DSP Zia Ul Haq.
Raghuraj was born to Raja Uday Pratap Singh in a Rajput family in 1969. His grandfather Raja Bajrang Bahadur Singh was the founder vice chancellor of Pant Nagar Agriculture University and later the second governor of Himachal Pradesh.
His birth date is a matter of controversy. Though he stated his age as 26 in 1993, in his mandatory nomination affidavit filed in January 2012, he said he is 38 years old. This would mean he was about 20 years old when he contested elections for the first time (with the minimum age being 25).
Raghuraj was educated his primary education from Mahaprabhu bal Vidayalaya Narayni Asram Shivkuti allahabad then high school from Bharat Scout H.S. School in the year 1985 and intermediate from Colonel Ganj Inter College Allahabad in the year 1987 and law graduate at Lucknow University, contested and won the state elections from the Kunda seat in 1993, as an independent.
He is the archetypal Chhote Thakur, straight out of a Mumbaiya Hindi Movies. He also holds court in his courtyard and delivers instant justice—slaps jurmaana (fine) on ‘erring subjects’ or orders a ‘sound’ thrashing. His subjects, poor men, women and children, touch his feet with their foreheads, pleading for mercy. Outside his fortressed Bainti Estate, people queue up every morning to offer salutations, their bodies bent at 90 degrees, hands raised in a namaste above their heads.
Some people also mention about  a pond where he keeps crocodiles. Anyone who questions his feudal regime becomes food for the beasts. The stories may have some grounding – in the 2003 raid at his residence, a human skeleton was allegedly recovered from a pond.
In 2002, on an FIR filed by a BJP  MLA Puran Singh Bundela of alleged kidnapping and threatening with dire consequences, got Raghuraj arrested on the orders of then Chief Minister Mayawati at the early hours about 3:00 a.m. of 2 November 2002. Later Mayawati-led government in Uttar Pradesh declared him a terrorist, and he was sent to jail under Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), along with his father Udai Pratap Singh and cousin Akshay Pratap Singh. Subsequently, Akshay managed to get bail, but Raghuraj’s pleas were rejected many times.
Within 25 minutes  of the Mulayam Singh Yadav’s government coming to power in 2003, all POTA charges against him were dropped. However, the Supreme Court debarred the state government from dismissing POTA charges.
Eventually the repressive POTA act was repealed in 2004, and although the court again refused to release Raghuraj, the He subsequently became a powerful man in the government, and was accused by police officer R.S. Pandey (who led the raid on his house) of having launched a vendetta against him.  Eventually R.S. Pandey was killed in a road accident, which is currently being investigated by the CBI.
In 2005, he became the minister for Food and Civil Supplies, and despite his pending criminal cases, he came to be assigned the highest level of security (Z-category) provided by the state, though the threats against him were not specified.
It was during this time (2003-2007) that large-scale embezzlement was allegedly carried out in the public distribution system (PDS) with records of siphoned-off food grains and kerosene being reportedly countersigned by Raja Bhaiya’s wife. This came to the fore in 2011 when a copy of the diary of records was revealed to the CBI by Raja Bhaiya’s aide Rajiv Yadav.
Raja Bhaiya was last arrested on 20 December 2010 for attacking a BSP candidate during a local election. Samajwadi supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav then openly warned the officials—the district magistrate and the senior superintendent of police—carrying out the arrests with dire consequences.
Last year , he became a cabinet minister in the UP Government. He was assigned the Food and Civil Supplies ministry as well as prison department. He had 48 cases registered against him when he was assigned the food and civil supplies portfolio of the UP government
On the 4th of March, 2013, he resigned  after being named prime accused in the murder of Kunda deputy superintendent of police Zia Ul Haq (30) just two days earlier by the widow of the deceased, Mrs.Parveen Azad.