Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha

Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha
Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha
Member: 1st Lok Sabha
Personal details
Born	1908 Village Dumari Sitamarhi
Died	1980 (aged 71–72) Patna
Spouse(s)	Ram Dulari Sinha
Children	Dr. Madhurendra Kumar Singh

Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha (1908–1980) was an Indian politician, member of the first Lok Sabha and independence activist. He was elected as the member of the parliament in the 1st Lok Sabha from Muzaffarpur-North-West Bihar parliamentary constituency in 1953 (present-day Sheohar constituency). He is known as the"Father of cooperative movement" in India for his contribution to the Cooperative Movement in India and on his initiation the cooperative departments in the Government were established and started by the first Prime Minister of India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. And his participation in the Indian independence movement was such that he had been imprisoned several times.

He married Ram Dulari Sinha, an independence activist who later became Union Minister and then Governor of Kerala. His son Dr. Madhurendra Kumar Singh has established an educational institution in his name Thakur Yugal Kishore Singh College at Sitamarhi. Madhurendra is the current President of Thakur Yugal Kishore Singh College.

Participation in Freedom Movement/Farmers Movement/Cooperative Movement and other Social Reforms

• 1921, Joined the Indian Independence Movement
• 1930, Participated in the Civil Disobedience Movement
• 1930, Incharge, Underground Movement in Sitamarhi Sub-Division
• 1932, Office Secretary, Bhagalpur District Congress Committee for 5 years
• Member, Bihar Provincial Congress Committee
• Imprisoned for Political, Kisan and Labour activities, was actively associated with the All India Kisan Sabha
• Trade Unionist in the Sugar Industries of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh Sugar Workers Federation
• President, Bihar Sugar Labour Federation
• President, P.M.G. Office Employees Union
• Organising Secretary, O.T. Railwaymen's Union, he made a special study of Labour Lawas
• Member, Sugar Standardisation Committee
• President, Khetihar Mazdoor Sangh, Sitamarhi
• Founder and General Secretary of Bihar Provincial Consumers Association
• Pioneered the Anti Purdah Movement in Bihar
• President, Sitamarhi Sub Divisional Harjan Welfare Board
• Chairman, Sitamarhi Sub Divisional Cooperative Store and Cooperative Union
• Director, Bihar State Co-operative Bank and he was the Chairman, Reception Committee of the first Bihar State Co-operative Convention
• Organised the Bihar Students Association at Bhagalpur, the Political Sufferers Conference and Cooperative Training Camps
• Organised the Manusmara Raksha Committee
• President, Sitamarhi Sub Divisional Library Association, he was actively associated with the Library Movement and he also represented Bihar at Indore and Hyderabad sessions of the All India Libraries Conference
• He was also President of Sitamarhi Sub Divisional Journalist Association
• Chairman, reception committee Sub-Divisional Public Health Conference and Public Health and Sanitation Committee
• Member, Tripartite Labour Advisory Board, Bihar
• Member, Standing Committee, Bihar Hindi Sahitya Sammelan

Publication

• 1932; Edited 'BALIDAN' and 'KARA and KAIDI' (Manuscript) in Motihari Jail, while he was imprisoned for his participation in the freedom movement