Mohan Singh (4 March 1945 – 22 September 2013) was an

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from the

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; ) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India. It was founded on 4 October 1992 by former Janata Dal politician Mulayam Singh Yadav and is headquartered in New Delhi. It is the third-largest political party in ...

. He was elected three times to the

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from Deoria in

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. He was the General Secretary of the Samajwadi Party. He died on 22 September 2013, due to cancer, in Aiims, Delhi.

Political career

Mohan Singh Gaikwad, son of Manikrao Gaikwad was born in the village Jainagar,

Deoria district Deoria district, one of the districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh, India has its headquarters located at Deoria and is a part of Gorakhpur division. It came into existence on 16 March 1946 from Gorakhpur district. During British rule the distr ...

in 1945. During his college life, Mohan Singh was president of the Allahabad University Students' Union during 1968–69 and was largely inspired by the father of the Indian socialist movement

Raj Narain Raj Narain (23 November 1917 – 31 December 1986) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. He won in a famous electoral malpractice case against the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, which led to her disqualification and, eventually, im ...

and Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia and later with

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. After college, he was detained for 20 months during an emergency for taking part in

and

Jayaprakash Narayan Jayaprakash Narayan Srivastava (; 11 October 1902 – 8 October 1979), also known as JP and ''Lok Nayak'' (Hindi for "People's leader"), was an Indian politician, theorist and Indian independence activist, independence activist. He is mai ...

's movement. He was also imprisoned several times while taking part in student protests in 1966, once for occupying

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Allahabad Prayagraj (, ; ISO 15919, ISO: ), formerly and colloquially known as Allahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi, Varanasi (Benar ...

, and also in an agitation launched by the

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on the language issue. He was jailed along with

for participating in

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in 1973. Singh was elected to numerous Indian constitutional posts including serving as a member of Parliament thrice—elected to 10th Lok Sabha (1991–96), re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (2nd term) (1998) and Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha (3rd term). He was also a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly during the year 1977–80 and Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (1980–85). Apart from these tenures, he had been member of numerous parliamentary committees including Committee on Public Undertakings (1983–85), Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council (1990–91), Committee of Privileges, Business Advisory Committee (1998–99), Committee on Official Language, Committee on Home Affairs and its Subcommittee on Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme, Committee of Privileges, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Tourism, Committee on Rural Development, House Committee.

References

External links

Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
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