Kashi Singh Airy

Kashi Singh Airy (Hindi: काशी सिंह ऐरी); (born June 1, 1953) is the leader and founding member of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal and a former member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly and Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. He founded the party in 1979 along with Bipin Chandra Tripathi, D. D. Pant and Indramani Badoni.

Kashi Singh Airy was born on June 1, 1953, in Panthagaon village in Dharchula, Pithoragarh to Kehar Singh and mother Sunita Devi. He had his primary and secondary education at Baluwakot. He passed his intermediate education from GIC Narayan Nagar, Didihat and went to Pithoragarrh for graduation, start student leadership, in 1973 he was elected Vice President of student union GPGC Pithoragarh. After completing Bsc he went to Nainital to pursue higher studies where he completed his post graduation in M.Sc. (Botany) and M.A. (Social Science) {Gold medal} from Kumaon University, and received LLB From Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

As an activist for Uttarakhand Statehood Movement he founded party Uttarakhand Kranti Dal with Bipin Chandra Tripathi, D. D. Pant and Indramani Badoni in Musoorie at July 25, 1979. He served as MLA three times in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (1985-89, 1989-91 and 1993-96) from Didihat assembly constituency and after the creation of new state Uttarakhand in November 9, 2000 (then Uttaranchal) he served as a member in 1st Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly (2002-07) too.