Satish Prasad Singh facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Satish Prasad Singh
6th Chief Minister of Bihar
In office 28 January 1968 – 1 February 1968
Preceded by	Mahamaya Prasad Sinha
Succeeded by	B. P. Mandal
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office 1980–1984
Preceded by	Gyaneshwar Prasad Yadav
Succeeded by	Chandra Shekhar Prasad Verma
Constituency	Khagaria, Bihar
Member of Legislative assembly of Bihar
In office 1958–1968
Personal details
Born	(1936-01-01)1 January 1936 Korchakka Village, Khagaria, Bihar, British India
Died	2 November 2020(2020-11-02) (aged 84) Saket, Delhi, India
Cause of death	COVID-19
Political party	Indian National Congress
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Satish Prasad Singh (1 January 1936 – 2 November 2020) was an Indian politician. He was the Chief Minister of Bihar for a very brief tenure of just five days in 1968.

Biography

He was a member of Koeri community and his daughter Suchitra Sinha is married to Nagmani, the son of Jagdeo Prasad who was popularly known as "Lenin of Bihar". Singh headed a coalition government led by Soshit Samaj Dal and supported by the Indian National Congress. He was elected to the 7th Lok Sabha (the lower house of the Parliament of India) from the Khagaria constituency of Bihar in 1980 as a member of the Congress Party. He was the first Chief Minister of Bihar who belonged to the other backward classes.

Singn joined the Indian National Congress in 1980 and was elected to the Lok Sabha in his very first attempt. He later joined the Bhartiya Janata Party in September 2013 but later quit the party after protesting against the poor representation of Kushwahas in the assembly tickets distribution.

Singh hailed from a prosperous family and owned more than 50 acre land. He married Gyan Kala, who belonged to another caste. The inter caste marriage being difficult in those days, they had to defy their parents in order to marry each other.

Death

Singh died in Delhi from complications of COVID-19 on 2 November 2020, 5 days after his wife died from the same disease.