Surajbhan Singh | |
Birth Date: | 5 March 1965 |
Residence: | Patna |
Office: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
Constituency: | Balia (Bihar) |
Term Start: | 2004 |
Term End: | 2009 |
Predecessor: | Ram Jeevan Singh |
Successor: | constituency abolished |
Constituency1: | Mokama |
Office1: | Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly |
Term Start1: | 2000 |
Term End1: | 2004 |
Predecessor1: | Dilip Kumar Singh |
Successor1: | Anant Kumar Singh |
Party: | Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party (2021-present) |
Spouse: | Veena Devi |
Office2: | Acting President of the Lok Janshakti Party[1] |
Termstart2: | 15 June 2021 |
Predecessor2: | Chirag Kumar Paswan |
Termend2: | 17 June 2021 |
Successor2: | Pashupati Kumar Paras |
Birth Place: | Mokama, Bihar, India |
Otherparty: | Lok Janshakti Party (2004-2021) Independent (2000-2004) |
Relations: | Chandan Singh (younger brother) |
Surajbhan Singh (born 5 March 1965) is an Indian politician and former Member of Parliament. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Bihar contesting on a ticket from Lok Janshakti Party (LJP). Currently he is debarred from contesting due to conviction in the Rami Singh farmer murder case.
Singh was born on 5 March 1965 in a village in Mokama in a village of Mokama into a poor farming family.[2] [3] He had two brothers.[2] His wife, Veena Devi, was an MP from Munger parliamentary constituency on a Lok Janshakti Party. His son Ashutosh died in a car accident on Greater Noida Expressway on 27 October 2018.[4]
He started his career in politics by contesting Assembly election against Dilip Singh, the sitting Minister in Government of Bihar and the elder brother of criminal-turned-politician Anant Kumar Singh in 2000 and defeated him by a huge margin. At the time of fighting the 2000 elections, police records credited him with 26 criminal cases ranging across Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.[5] After he was elected an independent MLA from the Mokama Assembly constituency (Patna district) then became MP of Balia, Bihar, on a LJP ticket.[6] [7] In 2009, he is convicted in Brij Behari Prasad Murder Case but in 2014 he along 9 accused had been acquitted by the High Court.[8] He is debarred from contesting due to conviction in the Rami Singh murder case of 2008.[9]
Singh was alleged to have shot and killed Rami Singh, a resident of Madhurapur village in Begusarai district on 16 January 1992. On 24 June 2008, he was found guilty by a Bihar court. After that he went to jail.[10] On Sunday, 10 May 2009 unidentified men shot dead the main witness Naga Singh and his grandson near Barauni in Begusarai.[11]