Chaudhary Lal Singh is the Congress party leader and a former Cabinet minister in the Jammu and Kashmir government. Lal Singh left the Congress party just before the Lok Sabha polls in 2014 and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In the 2014 Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections, Lal Singh won the Basohli constituency for the third time by defeating Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) leader Davinder Singh with a margin of 17,801 votes. He became the Minister for Forest, Environment, and Ecology in the successive governments of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and Mehbooba Mufti in Jammu and Kashmir from 2015 to 2018. He returned to the Congress party in 2024 and is again contesting from Basholi in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections. Lal Singh won the Basohli seat in 1996 and 2002. In the 1996 polls, Singh, as an All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) nominee, defeated Congress candidate Jagdish Raj with a margin of 4,228 votes. He retained the constituency in the 2002 Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections as a Congress candidate by defeating Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Jagdish Raj Sapolia with a margin of 3,668 votes. Singh also represented the Udhampur Lok Sabha seat twice in 2004 and 2009. In the 2004 Lok Sabha Elections, Lal Singh defeated BJP's sitting MP Chaman Lal Gupta with a margin of 47,175 votes. Chaudhary Lal Singh retained the Udhampur parliamentary constituency in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls by defeating BJP's Dr Nirmal Singh with a margin of 13,394 votes. He floated his outfit, the Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan Party (DSSP), just before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and contested from the Udhampur seat. However, he received just 19,049 votes with a mere vote share of 1.61%. In 2018, he was accused of supporting the accused rapists in the Kathua rape and murder case and resigned as a minister.