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'''Ram Bahadur Singh''' (10 March 1934 – 22 February 2006) was a leader of [[Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)]] (SJP). He came from the state of [[Bihar]] in India and served as member of the [[Lok Sabha]], the lower house of the [[Parliament of India]]. <br />
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Singh was born on 10 March 1934 in [[Harpur, Saran district|Harpur]], [[Saran district]], Bihar in a Zamindar family .He was married to Rajkumari Devi and had both a son Sanjay Kumar and a daughter . He attended [[Rajendra College]] in [[Chhapra]] and had a BA degree.<ref name="bio"/><br />
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In 1949, Singh joined the [[Congress Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] and between 1967–1972 he was secretary of the [[Samyukta Socialist Party]] in his home district. He was elected to the [[Legislative Assembly of Bihar]] for the periods 1967–1968 and 1972–1974.<ref name="bio"/><br />
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Singh was elected to the [[8th Lok Sabha]] from the [[Chapra (Lok Sabha constituency)|Chapra constituency]] and to the [[9th Lok Sabha|9th]] and [[11th Lok Sabha]]s from the [[Maharajganj (Bihar Lok Sabha constituency)|Maharajganj constituency]]. He served briefly as a minister of state in the Department of Rural Development during the government led by [[Chandra Shekhar]].<ref name="bio">{{cite web |url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/3184.htm |title=Members Bioprofile - Ram Bahadur Singh|access-date= 26 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="toi"/> He was a member of the [[Janata Dal]] party around this time.<ref>{{cite news |work=India Today |title=Maharajganj it seems will get a new maharaja - Chandra Shekhar |first=Uttam |last=Sengupta |date=30 November 1989 |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/19891130-maharajganj-it-seems-will-get-a-new-maharaja-chandra-shekhar-816806-1989-11-30 |accessdate=2018-02-22}}</ref><br />
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Singh was general secretary of the SJP in 1983–1984 and principal general secretary from 1996. He spent three months in prison in 1964 for his participation in the [[Bhoomi Andolan]] and was detained under the provisions of the [[Maintenance of Internal Security Act]] (MISA) for a further three months in 1974 after he had been involved with an andolan led by [[Jai Prakash Narayan]]. He was also detained for around 15 months during the [[The Emergency (India)|Emergency]] of 1975–76, again under the provisions of the MISA.<ref name="bio"/><br />
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Singh died in hospital on 23 February 2006, soon after [[angioplasty]].<ref name="toi">{{cite news |work=The Times of India |title=Former union minister Ram Bahadur Singh dead |agency=PTI |date=23 February 2006 |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Former-union-minister-Ram-Bahadur-Singh-dead/articleshow/1425500.cms |accessdate=2018-02-22}}</ref> His wife had predeceased him.<ref name="bio"/><br />
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[[Category:Bihar MLAs 1967–1969]]<br />
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