Bhola Singh

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Bhola Singh (3 January 1939 – 19 October 2018) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the

Starting his political career in the late 1960s, he has been elected as member of the state legislative assembly from the Begusarai assembly seat eight times since 1967.[3] His only electoral venture outside the district was in 2009 when he successfully contested the general election from Nawada as a BJP nominee.^[3]

Political career

Bhola Singh's long political journey spanning almost five decades began as a left-supported Independent MLA in 1967 before being formally elected as CPI MLA in 1972.^[3] He, however, later joined Congress in 1977 owing to differences with leaders in the CPI and even pulled off a spectacular victory as a Congress nominee from the Begusarai seat in 1977, when only 56 Congress party nominees could be elected in the 324-seat assembly.^[3] Singh has also served as the state home minister in the Chandra Shekhar Singh cabinet.

• List of politicians from Bihar

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