Dinesh Prasad Singh | |
Office1: | Bihar Legislative Council |
Term Start1: | 2003 |
Constituency1: | Muzaffarpur |
Predecessor1: | Constituency created |
Party: | Janata Dal (United) |
Birth Date: | 21 February 1959 df=y |
Birth Place: | Daudpur, Bihar, India |
Residence: | Muzaffarpur, Bihar |
Spouse: | Veena Devi |
Children: | Shubham Singh, Komal Singh |
Dinesh Prasad Singh is an Indian politician from Janata Dal (United). He is the member of the Bihar Legislative Council from Muzaffarpur. His wife Veena Devi is a Member of Parliament from Vaishali lokasabha constituency of Bihar.
Dinesh Singh was born in Daudpur and studied in Kutahi High school.[1]
Singh started his political career in the 1990s. He has served in the Bihar Legislative Council as the chairman as well as a member for 18 years.[2] His wife Veena Devi is Member of Parliament from Vaishali. She has also served as MLA of Gaighat Bihar, Chairperson of Muzaffarpur, and Vice Chairperson of Muzaffarpur.[3]
He was close to Anand Mohan Singh in 1995 with Bihar People's Party then and stood 3rd from Sahebganj, Muzaffarpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency),[4] he shifted to Lalu Prasad Yadav, Rashtriya Janata Dal and now he is presently in Janata Dal (United) with Nitish Kumar. He won with a record breaking margin, with 90.9% votes under his name. He got 5454 votes and his opponent from BJP got just 368 votes out of the total 6000 votes.[5] [6] He has for the past 4 times secured his seat by winning with maximum number of margins across India and has been doing it from past 2 decades.[7] His daughter in law is currently the vice Chairperson of Muzaffarpur.[8]