Satyendra Narayan Sinha

Satyendra Narayan Sinha ( Hindi सत्येन्द्र नारायण सिन्हा ; * July 12, 1917 (according to other information: February 1, 1919 ) in Koima, Poiwan, Aurangabad District , Bihar and Orissa Province, British India , today: Bihar ; † September 4, 2006 in Patna , Bihar) was an Indian politician of the Indian National Congress (INC), the Indian National Congress (Organization) (INC (O)) and Janata Party (JNP), who was several times a member of the Lok Sabha and between March and December 1989 Chief Minister from Bihar was.

Life

The Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar at the unveiling of a statue in honor of Satyendra Narayan Sinha in the park of the same name in Patna

Satyendra Narayan Sinha, whose father Anugrah Narayan Sinha was also a politician and confidante of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , attended Government High School in Raebareli and the Ewing Christian College in Allahabad . He graduated from the University of Allahabad with a Master of Arts (MA). He then began studying law at the University of Lucknow , which he completed with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). He was involved in the independence movement, in which other later Chief Ministers of Bihar such as Bindeshwari Dubey , Bhagwat Jha Azad , Chandra Shekhar Singh , Abdul Ghafoor and Kedar Pandey were active. He was a member of the Senate of Patna University between 1946 and 1960 and was initially a member of the Provisional Parliament after the entry into force of the Indian Constitution on January 26, 1950, and was a member of the Parliament's Standing Finance Committee between 1950 and 1952. He then became a member of the Lok Sabha , the lower house of the Indian parliament (Bhāratīya saṃsad) for the Indian National Congress (INC) in the first parliamentary elections in 1952 , and was a member of this until 1961. During this time he was a member of the treasury committee of the Lok Sabha from 1956 to 1958.

In 1961 Sinha became a member of the Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) , the lower house of Bihar, for the INC , and was a member of this until 1969. At the same time he was Minister for Education, Local Self-Government and Agriculture between February 1961 and March 1967 in the government of this state headed by Chief Minister Binodananda Jha and from October 1963 by his successor Krishna Ballabh Sahay . Until 1969 he served as a member of the Executive Committee and Election Committee of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), the presidium of the INC. After leaving the INC in 1969, he joined the Indian National Congress (Organization) (INC (O)). Subsequently he was President of the INC (O) Committee in Bihar. In the parliamentary elections from March 1 to 10, 1971 , he was re-elected a member of Lok Sabha for the INC (O). In 1977 he joined the Janata Party (JNP ), which emerged from the INC (O), as a member and was chairman of the JNP in the state of Bihar. He was also a member of the National Executive Committee and the parliamentary committee of the JNP. He was re-elected as a member of the Lok Sabha in the parliamentary elections from March 16 to 20, 1977 and was chairman of the Lok Sabha treasury committee in the sixth legislative period between 1977 and 1979.

In the parliamentary elections on January 3 and 6, 1980 , Satyendra Narayan Sinha was re-elected to the Lok Sabha for the Janata Party and was a member of the Committee on Public Enterprises in the seventh legislative period from 1982 to 1983. After he had rejoined the Indian National Congress in 1984, he was re-elected as a member of the Lok Sabha in the parliamentary elections on December 24, 27 and 28, 1984 in the Aurangabad constituency belonging to Bihar . He was a member of this until November 1989 and was a member of the Treasury Committee during the eighth legislative period between 1985 and 1986.

As the successor to Bhagwat Jha Azad, Sinha became Chief Minister of Bihar on March 11, 1989 and held this office until December 5, 1989, after which he was succeeded by Jagannath Mishra , who also belongs to the INC .

His marriage to Kishori Sinha on July 1, 1938 , who was also a member of the Lok Sabha between 1980 and 1989, resulted in their son Nikhil Kumar , who was a member of the Lok Sabha, governor of Nagaland from 2009 to 2013 and between 2013 and 2014 was governor of Kerala .

Web links

• Entry on the Lok Sabha homepage
• Entry in Rulers
• Chief Ministers of Bihar

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bihar: Chief Ministers (Rulers)