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Satyanarayan Singh
Satyanarayan Singh in 2019
Secretary, Bihar State Council, Communist Party of India
In office
2015–2020
Member of the Legislative Assembly
In office
1990–2000
ConstituencyChautham
Personal details
BornKaithi, Khagaria
Died2 August 2020
Patna, Bihar, India
Political partyCommunist Party of India
ChildrenAnkit (son), Anupam, Manisha and other two daughters
Alma materTilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University

Satyanarayan Singh (also written Satya Narain Singh) (1942 – 2 August 2020) was a Member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly. He was elected for the Chautham constituency twice between 1990 and 2000 for the Communist Party of India. He was state secretary of the CPI's Bihar unit from 2015.

He died on 2 August 2020 from COVID-19 at AIIMS Patna during the COVID-19 pandemic in India.

Early life and career

Satyanarayan Singh was born in 1942 at village Kaithi in Khagaria, Bihar to Dwarika Prasad Singh and Panchmukhi Devi. He received his primary education in the village school and secondary education at Zila school in Monghyr (present day Munger). After finishing school, he studied at T.N.B College, Bhagalpur and later undertook postgraduate studies at Bhagalpur University. Thereafter, he obtained a degree in law and took up a position as a lecturer in Jagjivan Ram College, Jamalpur, Munger. Singh returned to Khagaria to practice law but after some time resigned his lectureship and left his law practice in 1968 to join and work full time for the CPI.

Political career

Singh started his political career in the All India Student Federation, the student wing of the Communist Party of India. He was elected Mukhia of his gram panchayat in the year 1969 and continued in that post for twenty years. In 1980, he was elected Pramukh of the block panchayat samiti. He was also elected an MLA on a CPI ticket in 1990 and also in 1995 for the Beldaur Vidhan Sabha Constituency. In later years, he was actively involved in Kisan Sabha and fought for the rights of peasants and workers.

Personal life

He is survived by a younger son, Ankit, who is a doctor, and four daughters.

References

  1. "List of members, Bihar Vidhan Sabha 1990-1995" (PDF).
  2. "List of members, Bihar Vidhan Sabha 1995-2000" (PDF).
  3. "शोषितों की आवाज थे सत्यनारायण सिंह". Hindustan (in Hindi). Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  4. Tewary, Amarnath (3 August 2020). "Coronavirus | Bihar State CPI secretary Satya Narain Singh succumbs to infection". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  5. "CPI's Bihar state secretary Satya Narain Singh dies of Covid-19". The Times of India. 3 August 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  6. "COVID 19: CPI Bihar secretary Satyanarayan Singh passes away, JDU MP RCP Singh & wife test +ve". www.timesnownews.com. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  7. "कोरोना से CPI नेता की मौत, मुजफ्फरपुर में फिर टूटा तटबंध, मुंबई में पटना के सिटी एसपी क्‍वारंटाइन". Dainik Jagran (in Hindi). Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  8. "बिहार: कोरोना संक्रमित सीपीआई नेता सत्यनारायण सिंह का निधन". aajtak.intoday.in (in Hindi). 3 August 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  9. "न हन्यते: कोरोना से सीपीआई के राज्य सचिव सत्यनारायण सिंह का निधन". Hindustan (in Hindi). Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  10. "CPI Condoles Sudden Demise of Bihar State Secretary Com Satya Narayan Singh – Infected by COVID-19". CPI Official Copy. 3 August 2020. Archived from the original on 28 September 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  11. "सत्यनारायण सिंह का निधन : खगडि़या के चौथम विधानसभा से दो बार रहे थे विधायक, निधन से वाम आंदोलन को भारी नुकसान". Dainik Jagran (in Hindi). Retrieved 4 August 2020.
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