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'''Bihar People's Party''' was a [[political party]] in the [[India]]n state of [[Bihar]], founded in 1993 by former leader of the [[Samajwadi Krantikari Sena]] and former [[Janata Dal]] MLA, [[Anand Mohan Singh]]. | '''Bihar People's Party''' was a [[political party]] in the [[India]]n state of [[Bihar]], founded in 1993 by former leader of the [[Samajwadi Krantikari Sena]] and former [[Janata Dal]] MLA, [[Anand Mohan Singh]]. | ||
{{Short description|Former Indian political party}} | |||
Singh's wife, [[Lovely Anand]], won a by-election to the [[Lok Sabha]] (the [[lower house]] of the [[Parliament of India]]) from the north Bihar constituency of [[Vaishali (Lok Sabha constituency)|Vaishali]] in 1994 by defeating veteran leader Kishori Sinha, wife of Bihar stalwart and former Chief Minister Satyendra Narain Sinha.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/pinned-lynch/235751 |work=Outlook |agency=PTI |title=Pinned Lynch |first=Smita |last=Gupta |date=15 October 2007 |accessdate=2015-06-07}}</ref> The party then fielded around 100 candidates in the [[1995 Bihar Legislative Assembly election|1995 state assembly elections]], with Anand Mohan Singh himself standing and losing in three separate constituencies.<ref name="tehelka">{{cite news|title=Law’s Arm: 13 Years Long |first=Anand |last=St Das |work=Tehelka |url=http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main34.asp?filename=Ne201007LAW.asp |date=20 October 2007 |accessdate=2015-06-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610131126/http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main34.asp?filename=Ne201007LAW.asp |archivedate=10 June 2015 |df=dmy }}</ref> | Singh's wife, [[Lovely Anand]], won a by-election to the [[Lok Sabha]] (the [[lower house]] of the [[Parliament of India]]) from the north Bihar constituency of [[Vaishali (Lok Sabha constituency)|Vaishali]] in 1994 by defeating veteran leader Kishori Sinha, wife of Bihar stalwart and former Chief Minister Satyendra Narain Sinha.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/pinned-lynch/235751 |work=Outlook |agency=PTI |title=Pinned Lynch |first=Smita |last=Gupta |date=15 October 2007 |accessdate=2015-06-07}}</ref> The party then fielded around 100 candidates in the [[1995 Bihar Legislative Assembly election|1995 state assembly elections]], with Anand Mohan Singh himself standing and losing in three separate constituencies.<ref name="tehelka">{{cite news|title=Law’s Arm: 13 Years Long |first=Anand |last=St Das |work=Tehelka |url=http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main34.asp?filename=Ne201007LAW.asp |date=20 October 2007 |accessdate=2015-06-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610131126/http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main34.asp?filename=Ne201007LAW.asp |archivedate=10 June 2015 |df=dmy }}</ref> | ||