Rameshwar Prasad Sinha (also transliterated as Rameshwar Prasad Singh) was an Indian statesman and a participant in the

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. He was a Member of the Constituent Assembly of India which was elected to write the

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, and served as its first

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as an independent nation. He was also a Member of the

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. He was known for his oratorical skills and his speeches to the masses, both in English and Hindi. He started practising law in 1915, but gave it up in 1921 to take part in

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was also a Two-term

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from the Vaishali constituency and is married to

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a former Chief Minister of Bihar. He died in 1965.Babu Saheb Rameshwar Prasad Singh was the leader of Bihar: The father of leader of modern

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''Kishori Sinha'' and father-in-law of

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Stalwart ''Satyendra Narayan Sinha.''

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Members of Constituent Assembly from Bihar

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