Chaudhary Dilip Singh Chaturvedi (11 January 1932 – 9 February 1990) was an Indian politician and an eminent lawyer from the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. He became a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly as a Bharatiya Janta Party candidate for the Bhind constituency following the 1980 elections. He was a socialist leader.
Chaudhary Dilip Singh Chaturvedi was born on 11 January 1932 in a Brahmin family at Sahabda, Auraiya, Uttar Pradesh. He completed his primary education from Sahabda, middle education from Muradganj, high school from Bhind and higher secondary from SD Inter College, Etawah before pursuing a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Lucknow and graduated in 1953. Further, in 1955, he received a Master of Arts in Political Science and Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from the University of Lucknow.
Fiery, stalwart socialist leaders like Acharya Narendra Dev (then vice-chancellor, University of Lucknow) and Jayaprakash Narayan were his mentors and a major influence on his political and social ideology. He joined the socialist movement in student life and became actively involved in the Praja Socialist Party. He was known as a firebrand in student politics and started his political career with Chandra Shekhar and Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia.
