Digvijay Narain Singh (1924 – 2 August 1991) was an Indian politician who served as a Member of Parliament. He started his career as a member of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

, later joining Morarji Desai's NCO faction in 1969, and then the Janata Party. He represented Pupri,

Muzaffarpur Muzaffarpur () is a city located in Muzaffarpur district in the Tirhut region of the Indian state of Bihar. It serves as the headquarters of the Tirhut division, the Muzaffarpur district and the Muzaffarpur Railway District. It is the fourth m ...

, Hajipur, Vaishali et al. seats from

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...

in Lok Sabha from 1952 well into 1970s. He joined Janata Party in 1977 and was elected to Lok Sabha from

Vaishali (Lok Sabha constituency) Vaishali Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 40 Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar state in eastern India. The first Member of Parliament was Digvijay Narain Singh, while the first woman MP to represent the constituency in Lok Sabha was Kishori ...

. He was in Lok Sabha for 28 consecutive years (1952–1980). He represented Muzzafarpur from 1952 to 1957 and again from 1962 to 1971, Pupri from 1957 to 1962, Hajipur constituency from 1971 to 1977, and Vaishali from 1977 to 1980. He lost from Muzaffarpur in 1980 as Janata Party's candidate against the winner George Fernandes of Janata Party (Socialist). He was born in a

Bhumihar Brahmin Bhumihars, also called Babhan, are a Hindu caste mainly found in Bihar (including the Mithila region), the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh, and Nepal. The Bhumihars claim Brahmin status ...

family and was a scion of Dharhara, one of the richest Zamindaris in Bihar. But he spent a lot of his inherited wealth for public good and never took any money from his party, the

for fighting elections. He was a close friend of Sir

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, who contributed one whole chapter on him in '' No Full Stops in India''. He was close friend of both

Feroze Gandhi Feroze Gandhi (born Feroze Jehangir Ghandy;: "Feroze Gandhi was also from the Nehrus' home town, Allahabad. A Parsi by faith, he at first spelt his surname 'Ghandy'. However, after he joined the national movement as a young man, he changed th ...

and

Indira Gandhi Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (; Given name, ''née'' Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and a central figure of the Indian National Congress. She was elected as third prime minister of India in 1966 ...

and

Morarji Desai Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (29 February 1896 – 10 April 1995) was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the 4th Prime Minister of India between 1977 to 1979 leading the government formed by the Janata Party. During his ...

treated him like his son. He died at Patna on 2 August 1991 at the age of 67.OBITUARY REFERENCE

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, 20.08.91. He donated 500 acres of his land to establish Langat Singh College, Now known as BR Ambedkar University,

. He served as secretary of Bihar Congress in 1950.

References

External links

Digvijay Narain Singh, Members Profile
at

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past ...

website. {{DEFAULTSORT:Singh, Digvijay Narain 1924 births 1991 deaths India MPs 1952–1957 India MPs 1957–1962 India MPs 1962–1967 India MPs 1967–1970 India MPs 1971–1977 India MPs 1977–1979 Indian National Congress politicians from Bihar Lok Sabha members from Bihar People from Muzaffarpur district