Surajbhan Singh is an Indian politician and former

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

. He was born in Bhumihar family. He was elected to the parliament 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 ...

contesting on a ticket from

Lok Janshakti Party The Lok Janshakti Party ( LJP, "People’s Manpower Party") was a state political party mainly based in the state of Bihar, India. The party was formed in 2000 when Ram Vilas Paswan split from Janata Dal. The party had a considerable followin ...

(LJP). Currently he is debarred from contesting due to conviction in the Brij Behari Prasad murder case.

Personal life

Singh hails from

Mokama Mokama is a town and a municipal council in barh of Patna district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is located east of Patna on the southern banks of the river Ganges. Mokama is the connecting town of north and south Bihar and has 2nd highest am ...

. His wife,

Veena Devi Veena Devi (born 22 April 1967) is an Indian politician and the current Member of parliament from Vaishali. She is a former member of Bihar Legislative Assembly from the Gaighat constituency. In the 2019 Indian general election, she conteste ...

, was an MP from

Munger Munger, formerly spelt as Monghyr, is a twin city and a Municipal Corporation situated in the Indian state of Bihar. It is the administrative headquarters of Munger district and Munger Division. Munger was one of the major cities in Eastern In ...

parliamentary constituency on a Lok Janshakti Party. His son Ashutosh died in a car accident on Greater Noida Expressway on 27 October 2018.

Political career

He started his career in politics by contesting Assembly election against Dilip Singh, the sitting Minister in Government of Bihar and the elder brother of criminal-turned-politician

Anant Kumar Singh Anant Kumar Singh is an Indian politician and a former MLA from the Mokama assembly constituency of Bihar. A former member of the Janata Dal (United) party, he joined Rashtriya Janata Dal in 2020. According to his election affidavit of 2020, h ...

in 2000 and defeated him by a huge margin. At the time of fighting the 2000 elections, police records credited him with 26 criminal cases ranging across Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. After he was elected an independent MLA from the

Mokama Assembly constituency Mokama Assembly constituency is one of 243 constituencies of Bihar Legislative Assembly, legislative assembly of Bihar. It is a part of Munger (Lok Sabha constituency), Munger Lok Sabha constituency. Mokama is in the 14 assembly segments which f ...

(Patna district) then became MP of Balia, Bihar, on a LJP ticket. Currently he is debarred from contesting due to conviction in the Brij Behari Prasad murder case.

Murder trial

Singh was alleged to have shot and killed himself, a resident of Madhurapur village in

Begusarai Begusarai is the industrial and financial capital of Bihar and the administrative headquarters of the Begusarai district, which is one of the thirty-eight districts of the Indian state of Bihar. The district lies on the northern bank of th ...

district on 16 January 1992. On 24 June 2008,but he was not found guilty by a Bihar court. After that he still went to jail. On Sunday, 10 May 2009 unidentified men shot dead the main witness Nago Singh and his grandson near Barauni in Begusarai.

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Personal life

Political career

Murder trial

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