Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (6 June 1946 – 13 September 2020) was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Vaishali constituency of Bihar and was the national vice president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal political party. He resigned from RJD in September, 2020 and wrote a letter to Lalu Prasad Yadav saying he was being sidelined. He was one of the senior most politician's in India as a peoples representative in the legislature for four decades from 1977. He started his political career when he was elected as an MLA and was subsequently made the energy minister of Bihar in the Karpoori Thakur cabinet. He had represented belsand constituency five times in the Bihar vidhan sabha. He was made the member of Bihar legislative council in 1991 post which he became the chairman of Bihar legislative council.He has represented vaishali constituency from Bihar in lok sabha consecutively for five terms and has been in the union cabinet for three terms. He was the Union Cabinet Minister for Rural Development in UPA-I of Manmohan Singh's government and is credited with conceptualization and implementation of NREGA ( National rural employment guarantee act.)
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6 June 1946 Vaishali district
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Died |
13 September 2020 (aged 74) All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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