Suryadeo Singh (27 December 1939 – 15 June 1991) was an Indian mafia leader and politician from

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in East India, eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north ...

. He ran a protection racket in Dhanbad and was a major financier for the

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. In 1977, he won assembly elections on JP's ticket and became a close associate to future Prime Minister

Chandra Shekhar Chandra Shekhar (17 April 1927 – 8 July 2007), also known as Jananayak, was an Indian politician and the prime minister of India, between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991. He headed a minority government of a breakaway faction of the Janata ...

. As of 1984, he had at least 17 murder charges. He was arrested in 1988 over the charges of murder, extortion, and rioting but he was later released. He was a

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(MLA) from the Jharia constituency between 1977 and 1991. He was the founder and chairman of Janta Majdoor Sangh, a trade union in Jharkhand. He died on 15 June 1991 in Dhanbad, Jharkhand during his visit to Ranchi High Court.

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