Satyendra Narayan Sinha (12 July 1917 – 4 September 2006) was an Indian politician and statesman, participant in the
Indian independence movement
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The first nationalistic revolutionary movement for Indian independence emerged ...
, a leading light of
Jaya Prakash Narayan
Jayaprakash Narayan (; 11 October 1902 – 8 October 1979), popularly referred to as JP or ''Lok Nayak'' (Hindi for "People's leader"), was an Indian independence activist, theorist, socialist and political leader. He is remembered for le ...
's ‘
''complete revolution''’ movement during the
Emergency
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and a former
Chief Minister of Bihar.
Affectionately called ''Chhote Saheb'', he was also a seven-time Member of Parliament from the
Aurangabad
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constituency, a three-term Member of the
Bihar Legislative Assembly
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The total strength of membership in the Assembly was 331, including one nominated ...
, and a Member of the Bihar Legislative Council once. Regarded to be one of India's most influential regional people of the time, his reputation was synonymous with being a strict disciplinarian and tough taskmaster.
Background
Sinha was born in an aristocratic political family in
Poiwan,
Aurangabad district, Bihar. He belonged to the rajput caste. His father was a nationalist leader, Dr.
Anugrah Narayan Sinha, who closely assisted
Mahatma Gandhi
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along with Dr.
Rajendra Prasad
Rajendra Prasad (3 December 1884 – 28 February 1963) was an Indian politician, lawyer, Indian independence activist, journalist & scholar who served as the first president of Republic of India from 1950 to 1962. He joined the Indian Nationa ...
in the
Champaran Satyagraha
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movement, the first satyagraha movement in the country and also served as the first
Deputy Chief Minister
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cum
Finance Minister
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of the
India
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n state of
Bihar
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.
He spent his student years under the
tutelage of
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Lal Bahadur Shastri (; 2 October 1904 – 11 January 1966) was an Indian politician and statesman who served as the 2nd Prime Minister of India from 1964 to 1966 and 6th Home Minister of India from 1961 to 1963. He promoted the White Re ...
at Allahabad. Brought up in a political environment, S. N. Sinha completed his bachelor's degree from
Allahabad University
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and earned a degree in law from
Lucknow University
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. He practised law at the Patna
High Court, but left his job to join the
Indian Independence movement
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The first nationalistic revolutionary movement for Indian independence emerged ...
and participated in the
Quit India Movement in 1942. He organised Legal Aid Programmes for political prisoners during pre-Independence days.
Political career
Provisional Parliament
After Independence he was elected to the provisional
Parliament
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from
Bihar
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in 1950. He was part of the young Turk brigade of the Indian National Congress party during the time of the first Prime Minister of India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (; ; ; 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat—
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.
Bihar state politics
Satyendra Narayan Sinha was a prominent educationist, and served as the
Education Minister of unified
Bihar
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in the government headed by Chief Minister
Pandit Binodanand Jha from 1961 to 1963, and again for two consecutive terms in the Cabinet of
K. B. Sahay from 1963 to 1967.
He also a held a range of portfolios including Local Self Government and Agriculture. He is credited with streamlining the entire education system of the Bihar state. As the state education minister, he played an instrumental role in the establishment of
Magadh University
Magadh University is a public state university and institution of higher education in Bodhgaya, Bihar, India. It is recognised by the University Grants Commission (UGC).
The university is governed by the Bihar State University Act 1976.
It pro ...
in
Bodh Gaya, in the year 1962. He occupied the second position
(second-in-command) in the Cabinet and played the role of a ''de facto'' Chief Minister during the period 1961–1967 under the Governments headed by
K. B. Sahay and Pandit Binodanand Jha. He had
a unique political acumen to determine the electoral prospects of candidates in assembly election by just sitting at home in Patna.
The Kingmaker
S. N. Sinha also played a key role in the installations of Governments headed by chief ministers Krishana Ballabh Sahay,
Satish Prasad Singh,
B.P. Mandal, Sardar Harihar Singh, Bhola Paswan Shastri and Ram Sundar Das. He never
hankered after power even when it was well within his reach. When
Indira Gandhi became
Prime Minister of India in 1966, she wanted him to become the next Chief Minister of Bihar and sent then External Affairs Minister Dinesh Singh to convey the proposal but he refused, since he did not wished to unseat incumbent CM K B Sahay but wanted to be elected by the people of state.
Emergency era
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He decided to side with the syndicate after the expulsion of
Indira Gandhi from the Congress.The
Prime Minister of India,
Indira Gandhi, declared a
state of emergency on 25 June 1975 due to internal political disturbances. Accordingly, all fundamental rights enjoyed in the
Indian Constitution
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were suspended. Political dissidents, newspaper reporters, opposition leaders who opposed emergency were jailed. ''Chhote Saheb'', along with other prominent leaders, opposed this blatant misuse of state machinery. In 1977, during
the emergency in India, he was made president of Bihar
Janata Party
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and Chairman of State Election Committee.
He
worked together with premier colleagues of Janata Party like
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 ...
,
Chandra Shekhar Singh
Chandra Shekhar ( 17 April 1927 – 9 August 2015) was an Indian politician who served as the 8th Prime Minister of India, between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991. He headed a minority government of a breakaway faction of the Janata Dal with ...
,
Atal Bihari Vajpayee,
Lal Krishna Advani
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,
Charan Singh,
Jagjivan Ram
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,
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
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,
Madhu Limaye,
H. D. Deve Gowda,
Inder Kumar Gujral
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Born in Punjab, he was influenced by nationalist ...
,
Raj Narain
Raj Narain (23 November 1917 – 31 December 1986) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. He won in a famous electoral malpractice case against the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, which led to her disqualification and imposition of E ...
,
George Fernandes
George Mathew Fernandes (3 June 1930 – 29 January 2019) was an Indian trade unionist, statesman, and journalist, who served as the 22nd Defence Minister of India from 1998 until 2004. He was a member of Lok Sabha for over 30 years, starting f ...
and
Karpuri Thakur and the movement was a grand success in Bihar. He motivated the youth and students to take an active role in politics, and ensured their representation in political affairs. During, the Bihar legislative assembly election 1977, a massive crowd of youth leaders and activists used to converge at his residence.
Satyendra Narayan Sinha's political
encouragement to the youths led to the emergence of then youth leaders of
Janata Party
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like
Raghuvansh Prasad Singh,
Nitish Kumar
Nitish Kumar (born 1 March 1951) is an Indian politician, who is serving as Chief Minister of Bihar since 22 February 2015, having previous held the office from 2005 to 2014 and for a short period in 2000. The leader of the Janata Dal (Unit ...
,
Ram Vilas Paswan
Ram Vilas Paswan (5 July 19468 October 2020) was an Indian politician from Bihar and the Cabinet Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution in the first and second Modi ministries. Paswan was also the president of the Lok Jansh ...
,
Subodh Kant Sahay
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, Kripanath Pathak, Ram Jatan Sinha, Jagdish Sharma, Thakur Muneshwar Nath Singh, Raghupati Singh and Narendra Singh. After the emergency was lifted on 21 March 1977, fresh general elections were held in India.
The Congress Party, led by Indira Gandhi suffered a defeat at the hands of the Janata Party coalition of several small parties created in 1977 and the alliance came to power, headed by
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 ...
, who became the first non-Congress
Prime Minister of India. In Bihar, the Janata Party won all
the fifty-four
Lok Sabha
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seats in 1977 general elections under the mentorship of
Jayaprakash Narayan
Jayaprakash Narayan (; 11 October 1902 – 8 October 1979), popularly referred to as JP or ''Lok Nayak'' ( Hindi for "People's leader"), was an Indian independence activist, theorist, socialist and political leader. He is remembered for l ...
and rose to power in Bihar assembly too. He
struck by the Janata Party and preferred to be in opposition although he would have been considered a prize catch by the Congress party.
Return to Congress
He quit the party following differences with the then party president
Chandra Shekhar Singh
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and returned to the Congress fold in 1984. The then Prime Minister of India
Indira Gandhi came down to
Patna
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), historically known as Pataliputra, is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Patna had a population of 2.35 million, making it the 19th largest city in India. ...
to formally admit him back to the Congress party.
Chief Ministership
As the
Chief Minister of Bihar, ''Chhote Saheb'' also held the portfolio of Education for the fourth term in his later years 1989–1990. In the same year, he conceived, the proposal to set up a NTPC's super thermal power project at Nabinagar in Bihar's Aurangabad district to then
Prime Minister of India and Congress leader
Rajiv Gandhi; but the project went into limbo as the following state governments failed to follow it. In 2007, Manmohan Singh's government finally put a stamp of approval on it.
He is also credited for the establishment of the
Indira Gandhi Planetarium
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cum Science Centre in
Patna
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), historically known as Pataliputra, is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Patna had a population of 2.35 million, making it the 19th largest city in India. ...
. Under his regime, Panchayati Raj system of governance was introduced in Bihar.
In his autobiography ''Meri Yaadein, Meri Bhoolein'', released by the then Bihar Governor Buta Singh in the presence of Defence Minister
Pranab Mukherjee
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(also former
President of India
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), He accused his state colleagues of "fanning" the
1989 Bhagalpur violence to malign him, specifically mentioning his predecessor and former chief minister Bhagwat Jha Azad and the former speaker Shivchandra Jha. He didn't agree with the over-ruling of his order to transfer the then superintendent of police K S Dwivedi who had failed miserably to discharge his duties. The decision was not only an encroachment of the Constitutional right of the state government but also a step detrimental to ongoing efforts to ease tensions.
When he stepped down from the post of Chief Minister of Bihar,
Jagannath Mishra
Jagannath Mishra (24 June 1937 – 19 August 2019) was an Indian politician who served as Chief Minister of Bihar and as Minister in the Union Cabinet. He was also Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha between 1988 - 1990 and 1994 - 2000. His invo ...
succeeded him. He recalled when he met
Prime Minister
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Rajiv Gandhi later on, he informed him about the "role of some Congress leaders" in the riots. The Prime Minister expressed surprise and said "so, the riots were motivated!"
Parliament of India
S. N. Sinha was elected as a Member of the
First
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,
Second and
Fifth to
Eighth Lok Sabha
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s from 1950 to 1961 and 1971—1989 representing Aurangabad parliamentary constituency of Bihar.
He retains the record of maximum parliamentary election victories in Bihar, next only to the late
Jagjivan Ram
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.
He served as the Chairman of Committee on Estimates from 1977 to 1979. He was also a Member of the Committee on Finance from 1950 to 1952; Committee on Estimates from 1956 to 1958 and thereafter during 1985–1986 and the Committee on Public Undertakings during 1982–83. He was a well-known social activist, and served as the Assistant Secretary to the Bihar Provincial Committee of the Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Fund and Secretary to the Bihar Provincial Committee of the Gandhi National Memorial Fund. He was also associated with a number of educational and social institutions in different capacities. He was member, Senate and Syndicate of
Patna University
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from 1946 to 1960 and Bihar University from 1958 to 1960.
International activities
A widely travelled person, S. N. Sinha attended Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference, Helsinki,
Finland
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in 1955. He was the leader of the cultural delegation to Kabul on the occasion of ''Jasan'' in 1963.
He also led the Indian Parliamentary Delegation to the Spring Meetings of Inter-Parliamentary Council,
Canberra in 1977 and also to its meeting at Lisbon in 1978. He was a member of the Indian Parliamentary Delegation to erstwhile USSR in 1976 and was elected a member of the Special Committee on Violations of Human Rights of Parliamentarians at Canberra in 1977 representing Asia.
He was also elected President of that committee (conferred upon the status of a
Union
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Cabinet Minister) and served as its Chief from 1977 to 1988.
Posts held
S.N. Sinha held the following posts in his political career:
* 1946–1960: Member, Senate and Syndicate,
Patna
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), historically known as Pataliputra, is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Patna had a population of 2.35 million, making it the 19th largest city in India. ...
University
* 1948: Secretary, Bihar Provincial Committee of the Gandhi National Memorial Fund
* 1950 : Member, Provisional Parliament
* 1950–1952: Member, Committee on Finance
* 1952 : Elected to 1st
Lok Sabha
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* 1956–1958: Member, Committee on Estimates
* 1957: Re-elected to 2nd Lok Sabha (2nd term)
* 1958–1960: Member, Senate and Syndicate, Bihar University
* 1961–1963: Member, Bihar legislative assembly
* 1961–1962: State Cabinet Minister, Education, Bihar
* 1961–1962: State Cabinet Minister, Local Self Government (additional charge), Bihar
* 1963: Leader of the cultural delegation to
Kabul
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* 1962–1963: State Cabinet Minister, Education, Bihar
* 1962–1963: State Cabinet Minister, Local Self Government (additional charge), Bihar
* 1963–1967: Member, Bihar legislative assembly
* 1963–1967: State Cabinet Minister, Education, Bihar
* 1963–1967: State Cabinet Minister, Local Self Government (additional charge), Bihar
* 1963–1967: State Cabinet Minister, Agriculture (additional charge), Bihar
* 1967–1969: Member, Bihar legislative assembly
* 1969–1977: President,
Congress(O), Bihar
* 1971: Re-elected to 5th
Lok Sabha
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(3rd term)
* 1976: Member, Indian Parliamentary Delegation to erstwhile USSR
* 1977–1980: President,
Janata Party
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, Bihar
* 1977: Re-elected to 6th Lok Sabha (4th term)
* 1977: Member, Special Committee on Violations of Human Rights for Parliamentarians
* 1977–1988: President (Status of Union
Cabinet Minister), Special Committee on Violations of Human Rights for Parliamentarians
* 1977: Leader, Indian Parliamentary Delegation to the Spring Meetings of Inter-Parliamentary Council, Canberra
* 1978: Leader, Indian Parliamentary Delegation to the Spring Meetings of Inter-Parliamentary Council, Lisbon
* 1977–1979: Chairman, Committee on Estimates
* 1980: Re-elected to 7th Lok Sabha (5th term)
* 1982–1983: Member, Committee on Public Undertakings
* 1984: Re-elected to 8th Lok Sabha (6th term)
* 1985–1986: Member, Committee on Estimates
* 1989–1990: Member, Bihar legislative council
* 1989–1990: Chief Minister, Bihar
Personal life
S. N. Sinha's wife
Kishori Sinha
Kishori Sinha (25 March 1925 – 19 December 2016) was an Indian politician, social activist, a lifelong advocate of women's empowerment and a former two-term Member of Parliament from the Vaishali constituency. She was married to the former ...
is a former Member of Parliament from
Vaishali, and his daughter-in-law Shyama Singh is a former Member of Parliament from Aurangabad. His son,
Nikhil Kumar
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, a former IPS official, has served as the Governor of the Indian state of
Nagaland
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and also as the Governor of
Kerala
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.
S. N. Sinha wrote his autobiography ''Meri Yadein: Meri Bhoolein'', which incorporates the experiences and perceptions of a leader of his eminence and stature.
His official residence in Delhi,
28 Akbar Road, had consistently won awards for being one of the best kept bungalows in the national capital. Its grand
garden continually won awards at all Delhi's flower shows and was one of capital's landmark gardens.
Criticism
The Congress government led by Sinha is criticized for the lackadaisical approach towards the handling of the
1989 Bhagalpur violence. The N.N Singh Committee report tabled in the Bihar legislative assembly held the government responsible for taking no action and the police showing complete inactivity during one of the biggest instances of human rights violations in Bihar, which led to the displacement of over 50,000 Muslims. The riots are said to have claimed the lives of thousands of Muslims, mostly poor weavers, while the police and Congress administration under Sinha took no action.
Commemoration
The inaugural lecture of the annual Satyendra Narayan Sinha Memorial Lecture Series was delivered by
Vice-President of India
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Shri
Hamid Ansari
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in Patna. In 2014, the then Bihar
CM announced to rename Magadh University of which Late Sinha was the founder as Satyendra Narayan Sinha Magadh University. The
Children's Park in the capital Patna has now been rechristened as Satyendra Narayan Sinha Park and the foundation for installing a life-size statue of former Bihar CM was laid by
Chief Minister
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Shri
Nitish Kumar
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at a state function in 2015.
References
Sources
* ''Mere Sansmaran'', an autobiography by Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha
* Anugrah Abhinandan Granth samiti. 1947 '' Anugrah Abhinandan Granth.''
Bihar
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.
* Anugrah Narayan centenary year celebration Committee. 1987. '' Bihar Bibhuti : Vayakti Aur Kriti '',
Bihar
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.
* Bimal Prasad (editor). 1980. ''A Revolutionary's Quest: Selected Writings of Jayaprakash Narayan.'' Oxford University Press,
Delhi
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.
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