Ram Subhag Singh (7 July 1917 – 16 December 1980)''Data India'', Press Institute of India, 1981 was an Indian politician who was a member of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British ...

. He served as a member of the 3rd and 4th

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for

Bikramganj Bikramganj is a nagar panchayat city and corresponding community development block of Rohtas district, Bihar, India. As of 2011, the city of Bikramganj had a population of 48,465, in 7,968 households, while the overall subdistrict had a popula ...

and

Buxar Buxar is a nagar parishad city in the state of Bihar, India bordering Uttar Pradesh. It is the headquarters of the eponymous Buxar district, as well as the headquarters of the community development block of Buxar, which also contains the c ...

in the

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state of

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in 1962 and 1967, respectively. After the split in the Congress party in 1969, he stayed with the

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. He was first leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha in 1969. He participated in the

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. He was a cabinet minister in the Union Government led by the Congress party.

Early life

Singh was born in July 1917 in Ara district of the Bihar State in India. He undertook his primary education at the Government Town School, Ara Bihar, and his secondary education at Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Singh went to the

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for completing his Ph.D. degree in journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism.

Activism and politics

He participated in 1942 Bharat Chhodo Andolan along with Mahatma Gandhi. He was close aid of Jawahar Lal Nehru and he fought Parliamentary Election in 1952 from Sasaram Constituency of Bihar State and elected as Member of Parliament in First Loksabha. In 1957 he again got elected to Parliament from same constituency. In 1962 he won parliamentary seat of Bikramganj constituency in Bihar. In 1967 he fought the general election for the buxar constituency and was elected to parliament for a 4th time.

Positions held

* Member of the Central Legislature for over 22 years consecutively. *Member of Parliament, 1948–1952. * Provisional Parliament, 1950–1952. * Member of Parliament, 1952–1957. * Agriculturist and Journalist ; President, Shahabad District Canal (Nahar) Kisan Congress, 1952–1955. * Member of Parliament, 1957–1962. * Secretary, Congress party in Parliament, 1955–1962. * Union Minister of State for Food and Agriculture, 1962–1964. * Union Minister of Social Security & Cottage Industries, 9 June 1964 – 13 June 1964. * Union Minister of State for Railways, 1964–1967. * Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, 1967–1969. * Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology, 1967–1969. * Union Minister of Railways, 14 February 1969 – 4 November 1969. * He was the Leader of India's first Opposition in the Lok Sabha, 1969–1970.

References

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