Satya Narayan Sinha (9 July 1900 – 26 July 1983) was an

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politician who served as the member of Constituent Assembly and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs. He was the first Leader of the House in Lok Sabha not to be a prime minister.

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Satya Narayan Sinha was born in Sambhupatti Samastipur. He was elected to the Lower house of the Indian Parliament the

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in 1952 from Samastipur East, 1957 and 1962 from

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and in 1967 from

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. Sinha served as Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Communications from 1964 to 1967, and as Minister for Health, Family Planning and Urban Development from 1967 to 1971. He was appointed

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in 1971, and served in this role until 1977. He died on 26 July 1983, aged 83.

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