Dr. Sapam Budhichandra Singh (born 1 March 1949) is an Indian Politician and a Member of State Legislative Assembly of

Manipur Manipur () ( mni, Kangleipak) is a state in Northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. It is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south and Assam to the west. It also borders two regions of ...

representing

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Assembly Constituency since 2004. He was elected unopposed as the Speaker of Ninth Manipur Legislative Assembly on 16 March 2007. He is a member of the

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Early life

Dr. Sapam Budhichandra Singh was born in Konthoujam Awang Leikai in Imphal West District of Manipur, India to Sapam Mani Singh and the late Sapam Ongbi Konthoujam Angoubi Devi. He attended Konthoujam LP School, Awang Khunou ME School, Johnstone Higher Secondary School and D.M College and later joined Assam Medical College for his MBBS Degree, M.D in Radio Diagnosis from Banaras Hindu University, U.P and Freiberg University, Germany. As a doctor by profession he had served in various parts of

. He was the head of Department of Radio diagnosis in Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital before he took voluntary retirement in the year 1999, after 27 years of government service.

Political career

Dr. Sapam Budhichandra Singh had served as a General Secretary of Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee (I) from the year 2000. He served as a Member, Election Committee of Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee(I) from 2001 to 2004. As a Speaker of Manipur Legislative Assembly, he attended 53rd, 54th, and 55th

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Conference held in New Delhi (India), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Arusha (Tanzania) in the year 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Personal life

Dr. Sapam Budhichandra Singh married Dr. Khwairakpam Tamubi Devi (Daughter of Late Khwairakpam Chaoba, who represented

Sekmai Sekmai is a village in the Imphal West district in the Indian state of Manipur. See also *Phayeng Phayeng is a small village in Imphal West , native_name_lang = Meitei , other_name = omp, Nongchup Yumphal , nickn ...

Assembly Constituency, from the late 1940s to early 1980s). He has three children, two sons and a daughter.

References

External links

1. http://manipursacs.nic.in/html/state_legis.html 2. http://manipurassembly.nic.in/html/speaker-present.html 3. http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=1.10.171004.oct04 5. http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=21..300109.jan09 6. http://thesangaiexpress.com/News%20archieves(English)/July-2009/July%2009%20(2009).html 7

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