Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (74)

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh was an Indian politician. In the Lok Sabha, represented the Vaishali constituency of Bihar and was the national vice president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal political party. He resigned from RJD party in September, 2020 and in his final days wrote an emotional letter to Lalu Prasad Yadav mentioning the love and the support that he received from the party in his entire political journey and then few days later he died in AIIMS Delhi. He was one of the senior most politicians in India as a people’s representative in the legislature for four decades from 1977.

He started his political career when he was elected as an MLA and was subsequently made the Energy minister of Bihar in the Karpoori Thakur ministry. He had represented Belsand constituency five times in the Bihar vidhan sabha. He was made the member of Bihar legislative council in a 1991 post. He became the chairman of Bihar legislative council. He has represented Vaishali constituency from Bihar in Lok Sabha consecutively for five terms and has been in the Union cabinet for three terms. He was the Union Cabinet Minister for Rural Development in UPA-I of Manmohan Singh’s government and is credited with conceptualization and implementation of NREGA (National rural employment guarantee act).

Singh died from complications of COVID-19 at All India Institutes of Medical Sciences in New Delhi on 13 September 2020, at age 74.