Satish Prasad Singh (1 January 1936 – 2 November 2020) was an Indian politician. He was the Chief Minister of Bihar for a very brief tenure of just five days in 1968.

Biography

He was a member of saraiya community and his daughter Suchitra Sinh is married to

Nagmani Nagmani Kushwaha (born 15 Jan 1953) is an Indian politician from Bihar and Jharkhand. He is the son of another Bihar politician and Social ReformerJagdeo Prasad, in whose party Shoshit Samaj Dal, Nagmani started his career. He has served as an ...

, son of

Jagdeo Prasad Babu Jagdeo Prasad (2 February 1922 – 5 September 1974), alternatively spelled as Jagdev Prasad and popularly known as Jagdev Babu, was an Indian politician and a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly who served as Bihar, Bihar's deputy ch ...

who was popularly known as "

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of Bihar". Singh headed a coalition government led by ''Soshit Samaj Dal'' and supported by the

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. He was elected to the

7th Lok Sabha The 7th Lok Sabha, (18 January 1980 – 31 December 1984) was elected in 1980 Indian general election. The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the Parliament of India nine sitting members from Rajya Sabha were elected to 7th Lo ...

(the lower house of the

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) from the Khagaria constituency of

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 ...

in 1980 as a member of the Congress Party. He was the first Chief Minister of Bihar who belonged to the other backward classes. Singh joined the

in 1980 and was elected to the Lok Sabha in his very first attempt. He later joined the

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in September 2013 but later quit the party after protesting against the poor representation of

Kushwaha Kushwaha (sometimes Kushvaha), is a community of the Indo-Gangetic Plain that has traditionally been involved in agriculture, including beekeeping. The term has been used to represent different sub-castes of the Kachhis, Kachhvahas, Koeris ...

s in the assembly tickets distribution. Singh hailed from a prosperous family and owned more than 50 acre land. He married Gyan Kala, who belonged to another caste. The inter-caste marriage being difficult in those days, they had to defy their parents in order to marry each other.

Death

Singh died in Delhi from complications of COVID-19 on 2 November 2020, 5 days after his wife died from the same disease.

References

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External links

Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
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