Rama Kishore Singh is an Indian

politician A politician is a person who participates in Public policy, policy-making processes, usually holding an elective position in government. Politicians represent the people, make decisions, and influence the formulation of public policy. The roles ...

and is a former member of the

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from Vaishali,

Bihar Bihar ( ) is a states and union territories of India, state in Eastern India. It is the list of states and union territories of India by population, second largest state by population, the List of states and union territories of India by are ...

. He won the

2014 Indian general election General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014 to elect the members of the 16th Lok Sabha. With 834 million registered voters, they were the largest-ever elections in the world until being surpassed by the 2019 ...

as a

Lok Jan Shakti Party The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP, ) was a state political party mainly based in the state of Bihar, India. The party was formed in 2000 when Ram Vilas Paswan split from Janata Dal. The party had a considerable following amongst Dalits in Bihar. T ...

candidate. He defeated vice-president of RJD

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (6 June 1946 – 13 September 2020) was an Indian socialist politician. In the Lok Sabha, he represented the Vaishali Lok Sabha constituency, Vaishali constituency of Bihar and was the national vice president of the Ras ...

by around 1 lakh votes. He enjoys considerable support from the

Rajput Rājpūt (, from Sanskrit ''rājaputra'' meaning "son of a king"), also called Thākur (), is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating fro ...

caste despite having criminal antecedent. He quit all party posts he held on 15 September 2015.

Life

Rama Kishore Singh belongs to a Rajput community and is married to Bina Singh, with whom they have four children. One of their sons, Rajiv Singh, died in a road accident in

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. Singh was previously a member of the

Lok Janshakti Party The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP, ) was a state political party mainly based in the state of Bihar, India. The party was formed in 2000 when Ram Vilas Paswan split from Janata Dal. The party had a considerable following amongst Dalits in Bihar. ...

. In 2020

Tejashwi Yadav Tejashwi Prasad Yadav (born 9 November 1989) is an Indian politician and former professional cricketer who served for two terms as the deputy chief minister of Bihar. He is the son of former chief ministers of Bihar Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabr ...

tried to include him into

Rashtriya Janata Dal The Rashtriya Janata Dal ( RJD; translation: National People's Party) is an Indian political party, mainly based in the state of Bihar. The party was founded in 1997 by Lalu Prasad Yadav. The party's support base has traditionally been Other ...

to attract Rajput voters, but the induction was put off due to interference by

Lalu Prasad Yadav Lalu Prasad (born 11 June 1948) is an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Bihar from 1990 to 1997 with a brief interruption in 1995 and as the union minister for Railways from 2004 to 2009. He is the founder and president o ...

. Singh later managed to get on the ticket from Rashtriya Janata Dal for his wife Bina Singh, who contested in Bihar Assembly polls 2020 from Mahnar constituency.

Criminal cases

Rama Singh has been accused of a number of crimes, including

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and

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. He has been a member of

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several times from the Mahnar constituency, which falls under Hajipur Lok Sabha constituency. The Hajipur Lok Sabha constituency is a stronghold of

and

Ram Vilas Paswan Ram Vilas Paswan (5 July 19468 October 2020) was an Indian politician from Bihar and the Cabinet Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution in the First Modi ministry, first and Second Modi ministry, second Modi ministries. Pasw ...

has represented it several times. Singh was not given a chance to be on the ticket by LJP from Vaishali Lok Sabha constituency in 2019, although he defeated

in an election for the same seat in 2014.

Chandrama Singh murder case (2004)

In August 2004, Chandrama Singh, a candidate for local government elections in Desri, was shot and killed. Rama Singh and others were prime

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s. The court

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him as he was in incarcerated in

Hajipur Hajipur ( , ) is the headquarters and largest city of Vaishali district of the state of Bihar in India. Hajipur is the 16th most populous city of Bihar, besides being the second-fastest developing city, next to Patna. It had a total population ...

for three months leading up to the murder.

Jaychand kidnapping case, 2001

Rama Singh was also involved in Jaychand

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case of

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. Singh however claimed himself to be innocent.

Jamshedpur triple murder case

Singh was also accused of a triple murder that took place in

Jamshedpur Jamshedpur (; ), also known as Tatanagar, is a major industrial city in eastern India. It is the List of cities in Jharkhand by population, largest city in the state of Jharkhand. With a population of 629,658 in the city limits and 1.3 million ...

. He was the prime accused and was imprisoned during the inquiry period, however he remained hospitalized during that time. Singh was one of the prime targets of the

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government as a part of its pledge against crime. He along with other criminals

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were booked and tried under the special court established by the government.

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