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Rinku Singh Engagement: Rinku put the ring on MP Priya's finger in Lucknow in front of 300 guests including Akhilesh Yadav, Rajiv Shukla and Jaya Bachchan.
KalamTimes | June 8, 2025 11:39 PM CST

Cricketer Rinku Singh and MP Priya Saroj Engagement The price of both the rings is said to be more than 2.5 lakh rupees. Rinku Singh was in a stylish coat-pant at the engagement which was designed by a famous fashion designer of Mumbai. Rinku's family members have also bought great jewelry and sarees for the shagun to be given to the bride Priya at the engagement.

IPL wonder boy Rinku Singh, who has played two ODIs and 33 T-20 cricket matches for the Indian cricket team, today i.e. on June 8, performed the first ritual of making Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Priya Saroj his life partner.

The engagement ceremony of cricketer Rinku Singh and MP Priya Saroj was completed at Hotel Centrum. In the presence of family members, relatives and friends, Rinku and Priya also did a pre-engagement shoot at Hotel Centrum. Rinku in a white sherwani and Priya Saroj in a light pink lehenga reached the stage holding each other's hands and completed the ritual with due rituals.

The two got engaged at the five-star hotel Centrum in Lucknow. Kolkata Knight Riders' Rinku Singh, who became a superstar by hitting five consecutive sixes in an over of Gujarat Titans' Yash Dayal at the Narendra Modi Stadium on April 9 in IPL 2023, took such a turn in his life after that innings that he became a different identity in the cricket world.

Priya has brought a designer ring from Kolkata to make Rinku wear it. Rinku has also ordered a special ring for Priya from Mumbai. The price of both the rings is said to be more than Rs 2.5 lakh. Rinku Singh was in a stylish coat-pants at the engagement, which has been designed by a renowned fashion designer of Mumbai.

Rinku's family has also bought beautiful jewellery and sarees for the shagun to be given to the bride Priya in the engagement. Rinku has made her mark in cricket by coming out of a lower-middle class family of Aligarh. MP Priya Saroj is from a convent educated and political family. Both of them first met in the year 2023.

For the engagement of Rinku-Priya, Priya's father MLA Toofani Saroj invited 300 guests including Akhilesh and Dimple Yadav. These include Jaya Bachchan, MP Pushpendra Saroj, MP Iqra Hasan, Union Minister Kamlesh Paswan and many MPs and ministers. Most of the cricketers from Rinku Singh's side are. These include former cricketers Praveen Kumar, Piyush Chawla and UP Ranji team captain Aryan Juyal.

Priya Saroj was born on 23 November 1998 in the house of Toofani Saroj and Munni Devi (Varanasi). She was elected MP from Machhlishahr in Jaunpur in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. She is the youngest MP from Uttar Pradesh. Priya is among the seven MPs who were 25 years old.

Priya defeated BP Saroj of Bharatiya Janata Party by 35,850 votes. Priya is also an advocate by profession. She practices law in the Supreme Court. Rinku Singh has scored 55 runs at an average of 27 in ODIs and 546 runs at an average of 42 in T20 International matches.

Life changed in four minutes

On April 9, 2023, KKR needed 29 runs in 6 balls against Gujarat Titans. Umesh Yadav took a single off the first ball of Yash Dayal and gave the strike to Rinku Singh. Then what happened in the next five balls and the remaining 4 minutes became history. Rinku Singh hit five consecutive sixes off five balls to give KKR the win and made a special identity in world cricket.


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