Lovely Anand is an Indian politician and former member of the

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, the lower house of the

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and also the granddaughter of Freedom Fighter

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. She comes from a well connected political family as her mother's cousin

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was a member of parliament in 1980's from Congress party. But her political career started as the debutant candidate for the new Bihar People's Party established by her husband,

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, Lovely Anand had defeated a heavyweight parliamentarian

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, the wife of former

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Satyendra Narayan Sinha, in a 1994 Lok Sabha by-election in the north Bihar constituency of Vaishali. She did not contest the 1996 elections and failed to re-win it in those of

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also happened to be mother in law of her cousin Shyama Singh (daughter of

). Anand has also twice been elected as a

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(MLA) of

, winning once in

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and again in

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. Her husband, Anand Mohan Singh, whom she had married in 1991, and who had engineered her 1994 by-election success, is serving a life sentence for abetting murder. He had twice been the MP for

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, in 1996 and 1998, and his wife stood as a Samajwadi Party candidate there in the 2014 general election. She claimed that she had switched party allegiance because the

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(INC) had "neglected" her after she had unsuccessfully stood as their candidate in that constituency in the 2009 national election and in the Alamnagar constituency at the 2010 Bihar Assembly elections. In 2015, Anand became involved with the Hindustani Awam Morcha party and contested from Sheohar constituency. She lost the elections by a margin of around 400 votes. Anand has continued to protest the innocence of her husband, standing for election on that basis and claiming that her husband is the victim of a political conspiracy and has never been a criminal or gang leader. She and some others had been found guilty in the same case as that of her husband, which was determined in 2007 when she was a member of the JDU party, but she later obtained bail and was acquitted on appeal to the High Court. Anand has a BA degree from

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. She and her husband have 2 sons and a daughter; her son, Chetan Anand, has also expressed a desire to be elected.

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Notes Citations {{DEFAULTSORT:Anand, Lovely Living people India MPs 1991–1996 Members of the Bihar Legislative Assembly Lok Sabha members from Bihar People from Vaishali district 1966 births Place of birth missing (living people) Samajwadi Party politicians Indian National Congress politicians from Bihar Women members of the Bihar Legislative Assembly Bihar People's Party politicians 20th-century Indian women politicians 20th-century Indian politicians Women members of the Lok Sabha Janata Dal (United) politicians Hindustani Awam Morcha politicians 21st-century Indian women politicians 21st-century Indian politicians Candidates in the 2014 Indian general election Rashtriya Janata Party politicians Samata Party politicians Indian National Congress politicians Ranchi University alumni

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