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| image = Thakur Ramapati Singh.jpg<br />
| name = Thakur Ramapati Singh<br />
| birth_date = 1912<br />
| birth_place = [[Harnathpur]], [[Bihar]]<br />
| residence = [[Motihari]], India<br />
| death_date = 12 October 1999<br />
| death_place = Motihari, chandmari<br />
| constituency = [[Motihari (Lok Sabha constituency)|Motihari Lok Sabha constituency]]<br />
| office = [[Member of parliament, Lok Sabha]]<br />
| term = 6th Lok Sabha, 1977<br />
| party = [[Janata Party]]<br />
| spouse = Ratneshwari Devi ( dead - 2019, motihari, chandmari)<br />
}}<br />
'''Thakur Ramapati Singh''' (1912 – 12 October 1999) (also known as Thakur Ramapati Sinha), was a freedom fighter, politician, [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] and Minister of [[Bihar]], Member of Indian Parliament and a prominent social personality from [[Motihari]], Bihar in India.<br />
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==Family==<br />
Thakur Ramapati Singh was the eldest son of Shri Ram Surat Singh the head of the local land owning family of the village of Harnathpur located in present day "Pakridayal Block" of [[East Champaran district]] of the State of Bihar in India.<br />
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==Education==<br />
His school education was primarily at the district headquarters in Motihari. After school, he joined Patna Science College. The country was witnessing a raging [[Indian independence movement|struggle for Indian independence]] led by [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi|Mahatma Gandhi]] during this period and Thakur Ramapati Singh was soon in the midst of this movement leading the Youth Congress in [[Patna]]. He came in contact with the stalwarts of independence movement and eminent nationalists Rajendra Babu, Anugraha Babu and Shri Krishna Sinha.<ref>http://eastchamparan.bih.nic.in/freedomfighters.htm</ref><br />
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==Post-Independence career==<br />
Singh was repeatedly imprisoned by the British government in India. After independence, he completed his law degree, worked briefly in a local law practice and then established his own.{{citation needed|date=December 2014}}<br />
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==Politics==<br />
Affected by the state of local governance, Singh returned to politics by being elected as chairman of the municipal corporation of Motihari.{{citation needed|date=December 2014}}<br />
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===Bihar Legislative Assembly===<br />
He was then elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1960s and then for a second term in 1972.<ref>http://eci.nic.in/SR_KeyHigh_Lights/SE_1972/StatisticalRep_Bh_72.pdf</ref> During these two consecutive terms in the state legislature he served as a minister and handled portfolios such as the education ministry and the ministry of industries. He was a member of the cabinet of then [[Chief Minister of Bihar]], [[Mahamaya Prasad Sinha]].{{citation needed|date=December 2014}}<br />
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===Dissidence during State of Emergency===<br />
In the 1970s during the [[The Emergency (India)|“days of emergency”]], Singh joined the struggle led by [[Jayaprakash Narayan]] and worked closely with his close colleague and [[Janata Party]] veteran Satyendra Narain Sinha also a prominent political leader of this movement<ref>''Democracy & Dissent'' by Lallan Tiwary, 1987, Mittal Publications</ref> he was repeatedly imprisoned as a political prisoner during the emergency imposed by then Prime Minister [[Indira Gandhi]].{{citation needed|date=December 2014}}<br />
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===Member of Parliament===<br />
In the elections that followed the emergency, Singh was a candidate of the newly-formed Janata Party and contested and won from his home [[Motihari (Lok Sabha constituency)|constituency of Motihari]]. He was a Member of Parliament of the [[6th Lok Sabha]] of India<ref>http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok06/state/06lsbi.htm</ref> from the Motihari constituency.<br />
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==Retirement from politics==<br />
After his stint in the Indian Parliament, he returned to his law practice. He spent the rest of his years in his home town of Motihari dedicating his efforts to socialism while out of public office.{{citation needed|date=December 2014}}<br />
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He was in his later years, elected Chairman of the [[Bar Association]] of Motihari.{{citation needed|date=December 2014}}<br />
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==Death==<br />
Thakur Ramapati Singh died on 12 October 1999 in his home in Chandmari, Motihari, and was cremated in the village of his ancestors.{{citation needed|date=December 2014}}<br />
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[[Category:1912 births]]<br />
[[Category:1999 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:People from Motihari]]<br />
[[Category:Bihar MLAs 1969–1972]]<br />
[[Category:Janata Party politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Indian independence activists from Bihar]]<br />
[[Category:Indian pacifists]]<br />
[[Category:Indian socialists]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians from Patna]]<br />
[[Category:6th Lok Sabha members]]<br />
[[Category:Lok Sabha members from Bihar]]<br />
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