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Satyendra Narayan Sinha (12 July 1917 – 4 September 2006) was an Indian politician and statesman, participant in the
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, a leading light of
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's ‘ ''complete revolution''’ movement during the
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and a former Chief Minister of Bihar. Affectionately called ''Chhote Saheb'', he was also a seven-time Member of Parliament from the Aurangabad constituency, a three-term Member of the
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, and a Member of the Bihar Legislative Council once. Regarded to be one of India's most influential regional people of the time, his reputation was synonymous with being a strict disciplinarian and tough taskmaster.


Background

Sinha was born in an aristocratic political family in Poiwan, Aurangabad district, Bihar. He belonged to the
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caste. His father was a nationalist leader, Dr.
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, who closely assisted
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along with Dr.
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in the Champaran Satyagraha movement, the first satyagraha movement in the country and also served as the first Deputy Chief Minister cum
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of the
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n state of
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. He spent his student years under the tutelage of
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at Allahabad. Brought up in a political environment, S. N. Sinha completed his bachelor's degree from Allahabad University and earned a degree in law from Lucknow University. He practised law at the Patna High Court, but left his job to join the
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and participated in the Quit India Movement in 1942. He organised Legal Aid Programmes for political prisoners during pre-Independence days.


Political career


Provisional Parliament

After Independence he was elected to the provisional
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from
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in 1950. He was part of the young Turk brigade of the Indian National Congress party during the time of the first Prime Minister of India
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.


Bihar state politics

Satyendra Narayan Sinha was a prominent educationist, and served as the Education Minister of unified
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in the government headed by Chief Minister Pandit Binodanand Jha from 1961 to 1963, and again for two consecutive terms in the Cabinet of K. B. Sahay from 1963 to 1967. He also a held a range of portfolios including Local Self Government and Agriculture. He is credited with streamlining the entire education system of the Bihar state. As the state education minister, he played an instrumental role in the establishment of Magadh University in
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, in the year 1962. He occupied the second position (second-in-command) in the Cabinet and played the role of a ''de facto'' Chief Minister during the period 1961–1967 under the Governments headed by K. B. Sahay and Pandit Binodanand Jha. He had a unique political acumen to determine the electoral prospects of candidates in assembly election by just sitting at home in Patna.


The Kingmaker

S. N. Sinha also played a key role in the installations of Governments headed by chief ministers Krishana Ballabh Sahay, Satish Prasad Singh, B.P. Mandal, Sardar Harihar Singh, Bhola Paswan Shastri and Ram Sundar Das. He never hankered after power even when it was well within his reach. When
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became
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in 1966, she wanted him to become the next Chief Minister of Bihar and sent then External Affairs Minister Dinesh Singh to convey the proposal but he refused, since he did not wished to unseat incumbent CM K B Sahay but wanted to be elected by the people of state.


Emergency era

He decided to side with the syndicate after the expulsion of Smt.
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from the Congress.The
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,
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, declared a
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on 25 June 1975 due to internal political disturbances. Accordingly, all fundamental rights enjoyed in the
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were suspended. Political dissidents, newspaper reporters, opposition leaders who opposed emergency were jailed. ''Chhote Saheb'', along with other prominent leaders, opposed this blatant misuse of state machinery. In 1977, during the emergency in India, he was made president of Bihar
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and Chairman of State Election Committee. He worked together with premier colleagues of Janata Party like
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,
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,
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, Lal Krishna Advani, Charan Singh,
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,
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, Madhu Limaye, H. D. Deve Gowda, Inder Kumar Gujral,
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,
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and Karpuri Thakur and the movement was a grand success in Bihar. He motivated the youth and students to take an active role in politics, and ensured their representation in political affairs. During, the Bihar legislative assembly election 1977, a massive crowd of youth leaders and activists used to converge at his residence. Satyendra Narayan Sinha's political encouragement to the youths led to the emergence of then youth leaders of
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like Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, Nitish Kumar, Ram Vilas Paswan, Subodh Kant Sahay, Kripanath Pathak, Ram Jatan Sinha, Jagdish Sharma, Thakur Muneshwar Nath Singh, Raghupati Singh and Narendra Singh. After the emergency was lifted on 21 March 1977, fresh general elections were held in India. The Congress Party, led by Indira Gandhi suffered a defeat at the hands of the Janata Party coalition of several small parties created in 1977 and the alliance came to power, headed by
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, who became the first non-Congress
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. In Bihar, the Janata Party won all the fifty-four
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seats in 1977 general elections under the mentorship of
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and rose to power in Bihar assembly too. He struck by the Janata Party and preferred to be in opposition although he would have been considered a prize catch by the Congress party.


Return to Congress

He quit the party following differences with the then party president
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and returned to the Congress fold in 1984. The then Prime Minister of India
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came down to
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to formally admit him back to the Congress party.


Chief Ministership

As the Chief Minister of Bihar, ''Chhote Saheb'' also held the portfolio of Education for the fourth term in his later years 1989–1990. In the same year, he conceived, the proposal to set up a NTPC's super thermal power project at Nabinagar in Bihar's Aurangabad district to then
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and Congress leader
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; but the project went into limbo as the following state governments failed to follow it. In 2007, Manmohan Singh's government finally put a stamp of approval on it. He is also credited for the establishment of the Indira Gandhi Planetarium cum Science Centre in
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. Under his regime, Panchayati Raj system of governance was introduced in Bihar. In his autobiography ''Meri Yaadein, Meri Bhoolein'', released by the then Bihar Governor Buta Singh in the presence of Defence Minister
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(also former
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), He accused his state colleagues of "fanning" the 1989 Bhagalpur violence to malign him, specifically mentioning his predecessor and former chief minister Bhagwat Jha Azad and the former speaker Shivchandra Jha. He didn't agree with the over-ruling of his order to transfer the then superintendent of police K S Dwivedi who had failed miserably to discharge his duties. The decision was not only an encroachment of the Constitutional right of the state government but also a step detrimental to ongoing efforts to ease tensions. When he stepped down from the post of Chief Minister of Bihar, Jagannath Mishra succeeded him. He recalled when he met
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later on, he informed him about the "role of some Congress leaders" in the riots. The Prime Minister expressed surprise and said "so, the riots were motivated!"


Parliament of India

S. N. Sinha was elected as a Member of the First,
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and Fifth to Eighth
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s from 1950 to 1961 and 1971—1989 representing Aurangabad parliamentary constituency of Bihar. He retains the record of maximum parliamentary election victories in Bihar, next only to the late
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. He served as the Chairman of Committee on Estimates from 1977 to 1979. He was also a Member of the Committee on Finance from 1950 to 1952; Committee on Estimates from 1956 to 1958 and thereafter during 1985–1986 and the Committee on Public Undertakings during 1982–83. He was a well-known social activist, and served as the Assistant Secretary to the Bihar Provincial Committee of the Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Fund and Secretary to the Bihar Provincial Committee of the Gandhi National Memorial Fund. He was also associated with a number of educational and social institutions in different capacities. He was member, Senate and Syndicate of Patna University from 1946 to 1960 and Bihar University from 1958 to 1960.


International activities

A widely travelled person, S. N. Sinha attended Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference, Helsinki,
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in 1955. He was the leader of the cultural delegation to Kabul on the occasion of ''Jasan'' in 1963. He also led the Indian Parliamentary Delegation to the Spring Meetings of Inter-Parliamentary Council,
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in 1977 and also to its meeting at Lisbon in 1978. He was a member of the Indian Parliamentary Delegation to erstwhile USSR in 1976 and was elected a member of the Special Committee on Violations of Human Rights of Parliamentarians at Canberra in 1977 representing Asia. He was also elected President of that committee (conferred upon the status of a Union
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) and served as its Chief from 1977 to 1988.


Posts held

S.N. Sinha held the following posts in his political career: * 1946–1960: Member, Senate and Syndicate,
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University * 1948: Secretary, Bihar Provincial Committee of the Gandhi National Memorial Fund * 1950 : Member, Provisional Parliament * 1950–1952: Member, Committee on Finance * 1952 : Elected to 1st
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* 1956–1958: Member, Committee on Estimates * 1957: Re-elected to 2nd Lok Sabha (2nd term) * 1958–1960: Member, Senate and Syndicate, Bihar University * 1961–1963: Member, Bihar legislative assembly * 1961–1962: State Cabinet Minister, Education, Bihar * 1961–1962: State Cabinet Minister, Local Self Government (additional charge), Bihar * 1963: Leader of the cultural delegation to
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* 1962–1963: State Cabinet Minister, Education, Bihar * 1962–1963: State Cabinet Minister, Local Self Government (additional charge), Bihar * 1963–1967: Member, Bihar legislative assembly * 1963–1967: State Cabinet Minister, Education, Bihar * 1963–1967: State Cabinet Minister, Local Self Government (additional charge), Bihar * 1963–1967: State Cabinet Minister, Agriculture (additional charge), Bihar * 1967–1969: Member, Bihar legislative assembly * 1969–1977: President, Congress(O), Bihar * 1971: Re-elected to 5th
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(3rd term) * 1976: Member, Indian Parliamentary Delegation to erstwhile USSR * 1977–1980: President,
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, Bihar * 1977: Re-elected to 6th Lok Sabha (4th term) * 1977: Member, Special Committee on Violations of Human Rights for Parliamentarians * 1977–1988: President (Status of Union
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), Special Committee on Violations of Human Rights for Parliamentarians * 1977: Leader, Indian Parliamentary Delegation to the Spring Meetings of Inter-Parliamentary Council, Canberra * 1978: Leader, Indian Parliamentary Delegation to the Spring Meetings of Inter-Parliamentary Council, Lisbon * 1977–1979: Chairman, Committee on Estimates * 1980: Re-elected to 7th Lok Sabha (5th term) * 1982–1983: Member, Committee on Public Undertakings * 1984: Re-elected to 8th Lok Sabha (6th term) * 1985–1986: Member, Committee on Estimates * 1989–1990: Member, Bihar legislative council * 1989–1990: Chief Minister, Bihar


Personal life

S. N. Sinha's wife Kishori Sinha is a former Member of Parliament from Vaishali, and his daughter-in-law Shyama Singh is a former Member of Parliament from Aurangabad. His son, Nikhil Kumar, a former IPS official, has served as the Governor of the Indian state of
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and also as the Governor of
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. S. N. Sinha wrote his autobiography ''Meri Yadein: Meri Bhoolein'', which incorporates the experiences and perceptions of a leader of his eminence and stature. His official residence in Delhi, 28 Akbar Road, had consistently won awards for being one of the best kept bungalows in the national capital. Its grand garden continually won awards at all Delhi's flower shows and was one of capital's landmark gardens.


Criticism

The Congress government led by Sinha is criticized for the lackadaisical approach towards the handling of the 1989 Bhagalpur violence. The N.N Singh Committee report tabled in the Bihar legislative assembly held the government responsible for taking no action and the police showing complete inactivity during one of the biggest instances of human rights violations in Bihar, which led to the displacement of over 50,000 Muslims. The riots are said to have claimed the lives of thousands of Muslims, mostly poor weavers, while the police and Congress administration under Sinha took no action.


Commemoration

The inaugural lecture of the annual Satyendra Narayan Sinha Memorial Lecture Series was delivered by Vice-President of India Shri Hamid Ansari in Patna. In 2014, the then Bihar CM announced to rename Magadh University of which Late Sinha was the founder as Satyendra Narayan Sinha Magadh University. The Children's Park in the capital Patna has now been rechristened as Satyendra Narayan Sinha Park and the foundation for installing a life-size statue of former Bihar CM was laid by
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Shri Nitish Kumar at a state function in 2015.


References


Sources

* ''Mere Sansmaran'', an autobiography by Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha * Anugrah Abhinandan Granth samiti. 1947 '' Anugrah Abhinandan Granth.''
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. * Anugrah Narayan centenary year celebration Committee. 1987. '' Bihar Bibhuti : Vayakti Aur Kriti '',
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. * Bimal Prasad (editor). 1980. ''A Revolutionary's Quest: Selected Writings of Jayaprakash Narayan.'' Oxford University Press,
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