Nisha Singh is an Indian politician from Bihar and a Member of the

Bihar Legislative Assembly The Bihar Legislative Assembly, also known as the Bihar Vidhan Sabha, is the lower house of the Bihar Legislature where the first elections were held in 1952. The total strength of membership in the Assembly was 331, including one nominated m ...

. Singh won the Pranpur Assembly constituency on the BJP ticket in the

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election The Bihar Legislative Assembly election was held in three phases through October–November to elect members to the Seventeenth Bihar Legislative Assembly. The term of the previous Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Bihar ended on 29 November 20 ...

. Singh is the wife of veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader Binod Singh Kushwaha, who served as a minister in Government of Bihar.

Life and career

Nisha Singh started his political career after the death of her husband Binod Kumar Singh, a veteran leader of

Koeri The Koeri (spelt as Koiry or Koiri) and also referred to as Kushwaha and Maurya in several parts of North India are an Indian non-elite caste, found largely in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, whose traditional occupation was agriculture. According ...

caste, who represented Pranpur Assembly constituency on the symbol of Bhartiya Janata Party. Singh was also the president of party's Bhojpur wing. His whole family resides in Bachnaha village of Katihar. She has two daughters with her husband. She contested 2020 Bihar Assembly election and won by defeating Tauqir Alam of

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 ...

. In 2022, Singh claimed that local police superintendent of Katihar district has talked with her in an unruly manner. She stated that this happened when she was inquiring about death of a person involved in illegal liquor trade . After becoming victorious in 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, she visited Fudki Tola Chuhlar village in a locality called Azamnagar located within her constituency as a part of her first public outreach campaign. She was welcomed by the people and in her address she announced that she will work for the construction of a network of roads in the region for the ease of transport.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Singh, Nisha Living people Bihar MLAs 2020–2025 Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Bihar 1979 births People from Katihar 21st-century Indian women politicians 21st-century Indian politicians

Life and career

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