Ms. Richa Singh was the first woman president of the Allahabad University Students Union since Indian independence. She is known for her staunch opposition to hard line to Chief Minister Mr. Yogi Adityanath, taking on the ABVP, and her alleged harassment by the university administration for on-campus activism and raising gender sensitivity issues. An M.Phil. Gold medallist, Ms. Richa Singh has been involved in activism since 2008 when she founded the Stri Mukti Sangathan for women's welfare. In 2012, she founded the Students Friends Union, as an alternative platform, independent of students' wings of established political parties. In 2015, she contested the student union elections independently. According to sources, on February 12, 2019, woman human rights defender Ms. Richa Singh, was brutally attacked by Allahabad police and ABVP members during a student's protest at Allahabad University, According to the sources, she was allegedly physically assaulted by the police personnel and left bleeding and unconscious on the road. She suffered injuries in her jaw and head. She was treated in a local hospital for her injuries. Later the police filed an FIR against her under false charges. The peaceful protest or shanti march was organised at Allahabad university in Uttar Pradesh against the move of the Uttar Pradesh government to stop the Mr. Akhilesh Yadav, chief of Samajwadi Party (a political party in the region which ruled the state earlier) at the Lucknow airport from flying to Prayagraj (Allahabad) to participate in a function at the Allahabad University, where he was scheduled to attend an event of the students' union. According to one eyewitness, "The police physically assaulted several people including political leaders who were present at the protest site. But they were particularly brutal in the manner in which they beat up Richa Singh. She sustained head injuries and they also broke two of her teeth! She fell unconscious but we were not even allowed to take her to the hospital. She was arrested and taken to police lines." Ms Richa Singh had earlier been subject to police brutality and institutional violence for protesting against the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath of the Indian right wing Hindu nationalist party's visit to the University and showing him blackflags on which HRDA has sent an Urgent Appeal for Action to the National Human Rights Commission on March 2016.