Prabhunath Singh


Prabhunath Singh is a politician from Bihar, India.He was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha. He represented the Mashrakh 4 times lok Sabah Member 1998,1999,2004,2013 and Maharajganj constituency of Bihar from 2004 to 2009 and is a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal political party.

Background family and education

Singh was born in Masrakh, Saran district, in Bihar. He studied till class-12 from Bihar University, Muzaffarpur in 1972. He married Binda Devi. His brother Dina Singh, Madan Singh and Kedar Singh are also politician. His son Randhir Kumar Singh is also politician and lost 2019 Indian general election to Janardan Singh Sigriwal of BJP.

Career

Before entering in politics he has a brick-making factory and has won his first election as MLA as an independent candidate, due to his support among local Rajput of his area. He is 4 times member of parliament from Saran district and due to his muscle power. He has also polled election from Bharatiya Janata Party in 1995, but lost so next year he left the party. Then he also elected from JDU, but then later joined RJD and said that he left JDU due to dictatorship of Nitish Kumar.
He represented the Maharajganj constituency of Bihar from 2004 to 2009 on JD ticket. In 2009, he contested on JD ticket, but lost Uma Shankar Singh of Rashtriya Janata Dal narrowly. After the death of Uma Shankar Singh, seat went vacant. He switched the side and contested on RJD ticket. This time he defeated the JD's nominee P.K. Shahi.

Conviction and controversies

On May 23, 2017 he was sentenced to life imprisonment by Hazaribagh Court in connection and abetting murder of MLA Ashok Singh back 22 years ago.There are many criminal charges against him and once Lalu Prasad Yadav also called him a "Gunda" .