Bihar People's Party was a

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in the Indian state of Bihar, founded in 1993 by former leader of the Samajwadi Krantikari Sena and former

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MLA,

Anand Mohan Singh Anand Mohan Singh (born 28 January 1954) is a politician and founder of the now-defunct Bihar People's Party (BPP). He served life imprisonment for instigating killing of Gopalganj district magistrate, G. Krishnaiah in 1994. In April 2023, Go ...

. Singh's wife,

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, won a by-election to the

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(the

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of the

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) from the north Bihar constituency of Vaishali in 1994 by defeating veteran leader Kishori Sinha, wife of Bihar stalwart and former Chief Minister Satyendra Narain Sinha. The party then fielded around 100 candidates in the 1995 state assembly elections, with Anand Mohan Singh himself standing and losing in three separate constituencies. BPP then joined with the

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and Singh was elected to the Lok Sabha as a candidate of that party in 1996, then as an

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candidate in 1998. In 1999 BPP contested the Lok Sabha polls in alliance with the

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and the

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. The party contested the 2000 Bihar legislative election in alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Jharkhand People's Party. The party won two seats, contesting as independents. BPP merged with the

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party in February 2004.

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