Chandrasekhar Singh

Chandrasekhar Singh (born December 26, 1915 - died July 19, 1976 in Patna) was a leader from the Communist Party of India who served as a minister in the government of Bihar state.

Family

Singh was born in Bihat village near Barauni in Begusarai district of Bihar. His father, Ram Charitra Singh, was a member of the Congress party, a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly and a minister in the Krishna Singh cabinet. Ram Charitra Singh's brother was the paternal grandfather of Kanhaiya Kumar, the communist activist and student leader at JNU who stands charged with sedition as of March 2016.

Career

Singh was a founding member of the Communist Party of India in Begusarai district. He was instrumental in converting Begusarai into a bastion of the communist party. Begusarai came to be known as Leningard of Bihar and Singh's village, Bihat, earned the sobriquet Little Moscow.^{[1][2] [3][4] [5][6]} Begusarai has traditionally been a communist stronghold until recent years, when the Bharatiya Janata Party has managed to win several local and national elections from the region.<

Singh was elected form Teghra Vidhan Sabha constituency in 1962 and was of the minister in first non-congress government in Bihar as a minister of Irrigation and Power then Agriculture. ^[7]

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