Lovely Anand is an Indian politician from the Janata Dal United, and a Member of Parliament representing Sheohar (Lok Sabha constituency) in Bihar, India and former Member of the

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. She also served as a member of 10th Lok Sabha, the

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of the

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. She comes from a well connected political family as her mother's cousin Madhuri Singh was a member of parliament in 1980's from Congress party. But her political career started as the debutant candidate for the new Bihar People's Party established by her husband,

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, Lovely Anand had defeated a heavyweight parliamentarian Kishori Sinha, the wife of former

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Satyendra Narayan Sinha, in a 1994 Lok Sabha by-election in the north Bihar constituency of Vaishali. She did not contest the 1996 elections and failed to re-win it in those of

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. Kishori Sinha also happened to be mother in law of her cousin and former MP Shyama Singh (daughter of Madhuri Singh). Anand has also twice been elected as a

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(MLA) of

, winning once in Barh and again in Nabinagar. Her husband is Anand Mohan Singh, whom she had married in 1991, and who had engineered her 1994 by-election success. He had twice been the MP for Sheohar, in 1996 and 1998, and his wife stood as a

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candidate there in the 2014 general election. She claimed that she had switched party allegiance because the

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(INC) had "neglected" her after she had unsuccessfully stood as their candidate in that constituency in the 2009 national election and in the Alamnagar constituency at the 2010 Bihar Assembly elections. In 2015, Anand became involved with the

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party and contested from Sheohar constituency. She lost the elections by a margin of around 400 votes. Anand has continued to protest the innocence of her husband, standing for election on that basis and claiming that her husband is the victim of a political conspiracy and has never been a criminal or gang leader. She and some others had been found guilty in the same case as that of her husband, which was determined in 2007 when she was a member of the JDU party, but she later obtained bail and was acquitted on appeal to the High Court. Anand has a BA degree from Ranchi University. She and her husband have 2 sons and a daughter; her son, Chetan Anand, has also expressed a desire to be elected.

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Notes Citations {{DEFAULTSORT:Anand, Lovely Living people India MPs 1991–1996 Bihar MLAs 1995–2000 Lok Sabha members from Bihar People from Vaishali district 1966 births Place of birth missing (living people) Samajwadi Party politicians from Bihar Indian National Congress politicians from Bihar Women members of the Bihar Legislative Assembly Bihar People's Party politicians 20th-century Indian women politicians Women members of the Lok Sabha Janata Dal (United) politicians Hindustani Awam Morcha politicians 21st-century Indian women politicians Candidates in the 2014 Indian general election Rashtriya Janata Party politicians Samata Party politicians Ranchi University alumni India MPs 2024–2029

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