Dr. Ram Kripal Sinha

Dr. Ram Kripal Sinha
डॉ. राम कृपाल सिन्हा

Union Minister of State for Labour and Parliamentary Affairs
In office 1977–1979
President	Basappa Danappa Jatti (Acting) Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Prime Minister	Morarji Desai

Dr. Ram Kripal Sinha is a politician from the Indian state of Bihar. He is a former minister of state in the Government of India and a cabinet minister in the Government of Bihar. He is the office secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party Parliamentary Party Executive Committee.

Sinha was born in the year April 1934 in the family of Suryadeo Sinha. He obtained a Master of Arts degree in English and a Doctorate in Prakrit.

Sinha started his career as a college lecturer based in Muzaffarpur town, Bihar. Shortly afterwards, he received his doctorate, he settled at Motihari in the remote and under-developed East Champaran district of Bihar. In 1968, he was elected as a member to the Bihar Legislative Council which he served till 1974. In 1971, he was appointed as cabinet minister in the Socialist Party (India) government of Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur. On 3 April 1974, he was elected as a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Parliament of India and served as a parliamentarian till 1980. During this term, he was appointed as the Union Minister of State for Labour and Parliamentary Affairs in the Janata Party government of Prime Minister Morarji Desai and served to this post till the dissolution of Government in 1979.