Patna : East A state in Eastern India Speaker of the Assembly and Experienced Congress Leader Sadanand Singh Party sources said that he died here on Wednesday after a prolonged illness. He was 76 years old.
Singh breathed his last at a hospital here where he was admitted for over a month.
A staunch Congressman, Singh made his debut in 1972 by winning the Kahalgaon assembly constituency, which he had come to represent several times during his five-decade-long political career.
An OBC leader in a party, mostly belonging to the upper castes, he was elected to the speaker’s chair by the party leadership in 2000, when he sought to re-establish himself by projecting a pro-backward image in alliance with the RJD. Were trying to.
Later, he also served as the leader of the Congress Legislature Party in the state, but quit electoral politics before the assembly elections last year, when his seat went to his son, Shubhanand Mukesh.
However, the party lost this seat to the BJP.
Condolences are pouring in from the entire political arena for Singh.
The Chief Minister is also among those who expressed grief over the death. Nitish Kumar, former chief minister then prasad and Leader of the Opposition other than Jitan Ram Manjhi Tejashwi Yadav.
Singh breathed his last at a hospital here where he was admitted for over a month.
A staunch Congressman, Singh made his debut in 1972 by winning the Kahalgaon assembly constituency, which he had come to represent several times during his five-decade-long political career.
An OBC leader in a party, mostly belonging to the upper castes, he was elected to the speaker’s chair by the party leadership in 2000, when he sought to re-establish himself by projecting a pro-backward image in alliance with the RJD. Were trying to.
Later, he also served as the leader of the Congress Legislature Party in the state, but quit electoral politics before the assembly elections last year, when his seat went to his son, Shubhanand Mukesh.
However, the party lost this seat to the BJP.
Condolences are pouring in from the entire political arena for Singh.
The Chief Minister is also among those who expressed grief over the death. Nitish Kumar, former chief minister then prasad and Leader of the Opposition other than Jitan Ram Manjhi Tejashwi Yadav.
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