Rachna Singh

Rachna Singh is a Canadian politician and trade unionist, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2017 provincial election. She represents the electoral district of Surrey-Green Timbers as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party caucus.

Prior to her election to the legislature, Singh worked as a Psychologist and drug and alcohol counsellor. She became active in her labour union local, and eventually became a National Representative (staff) for the Canadian Union of Public Employees representing workers through advocacy in grievance handling, labour arbitrations, organizing, community and political activism and helping advise local unions on matters of internal administration.

While on assignment for CUPE in Alberta, Singh participated in the successful efforts to elect Rachel Notley's Alberta NDP to government and is a close personal friend of the incumbent Alberta Minister of Culture and Tourism, the Hon. Ricardo Miranda, MLA, who had himself been a CUPE activist and President of the CUPE LocaL that represents Air Canada flight attendants before his election in 2015.

Singh is married to Gurpreet Singh, a journalist for the Georgia Straight and publisher of the Radical Desi magazine. Both descend from families with a history of activism for various social and economic causes in their native India.

Singh is a secular Sikh and lives in Surrey.