Chandrasekhar Singh


Chandrasekhar Singh 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, Ramcharitra Singh, was a member of the Congress party, a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly and a minister in the Dr. Sri Krishna Singh's cabinet. He is also a distant relative of FormerJNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar

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. Begusarai has traditionally been a communist stronghold until recent years, when the Bharatiya Janata Party has won 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.