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== Personal life == [[File:D_Roopa_IPS.jpg|thumb|V. P. Singh and his wife Sita Kumari with [[National Cadet Corps (India)|NCC cadet]] [[D. Roopa]].]] Singh married Princess Sita Kumari, the daughter of the Raja of Deogarh-Madaria, Rajasthan, on his 24th birthday. It was an arranged marriage and she was 18. Kumari was a [[Sisodia Dynasty|Sisodia]] Rajput descended from [[Maharana Pratap]] of [[Udaipur]]. The couple had two sons, [[Ajeya Pratap Singh]] (born 1957), a chartered accountant in New York City, and Abhay Pratap Singh (born 1958), a doctor at the [[All India Institute of Medical Sciences]] in New Delhi.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Singh|first1=Khushwant|title=Malicious Gossip|date=11 April 2013|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers India |isbn=9789350292891 |chapter=Plane to Pakistan|author-link=Khushwant Singh|access-date=26 August 2014|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lyq-wdNuXe4C&q=V.+P.+Singh+marriage&pg=PT48}}</ref> After his death, his elder son Ajeya Singh was sworn as the [[Raja Bahadur]] of the [[Manda (zamindari)|Manda estate]] in 2007 and in 2009, he merged his party [[Jan Morcha]] with [[Indian National Congress]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-11-08|title=In Manda, a long way from Mandal|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/in-manda-a-long-way-from-mandal/|access-date=2020-10-29|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=VP's son does groundwork to become self-made politician β Indian Express|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/vp-s-son-does-groundwork-to-become--selfmade--politician/357816/ |access-date=2020-10-29|website=archive.indianexpress.com}}</ref>
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