Shyama Singh
| Shyama Singh | |
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Member of Parliament for Aurangabad |
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In office 1999–2004 |
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| Preceded by | Sushil Kumar |
| Succeeded by | Nikhil kumar |
| Constituency | Aurangabad |
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26 November 1942 Patna, Bihar |
| Political party | INC |
| Spouse(s) | Nikhil Kumar |
| Residence | Patna |
| As of 7 September, 2009 Source: [1] |
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Shyama Singh (Hindi: श्यामा सिंह) (born 26 November 1942) is an Indian politician and a former Member of Parliament from the Aurangabad (Bihar) (Lok Sabha constituency) and is married to the formerGovernor of Nagaland and Kerala, Nikhil Kumar, who was also elected to the 14th Lok Sabha from the same constituency in Bihar. She joined Congress at the initiative of Rajiv Gandhi, the late Prime Minister of India, whom she met at a social event in Delhi.As a parliamentarian,her crowning achievement was reviving the Nabinagar Super Thermal Power Project which her father-in-law and veteran Bihar leader Late Satyendra Narayan Singh,affectionately called as Chhote Saheb had conceived in 1989 as the then Chief Minister of Bihar.
She is daughter of Indian Civil Service officer Sir T. P. Singh who had also served as independent India's first finance secretary and her mother Madhuri Singh, has been a two-term member of Parliament from Purnea. She completed her school education from Patna. Thereafter, she graduated in History from Indraprastha College for Women. Her elder brother is former bureaucrat and Rajya Sabha MP N. K. Singh (A 1964 batch IAS officer of the Bihar cadre) who has served as India's Revenue Secretary and also Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister. Her younger brother Uday Singh also twice represented the Purnea Lok Sabha constituency of Bihar in Lok Sabha. Her father-in-law and former Bihar Chief Minister Late Chhote Saheb (S.N. Sinha), also represented Aurangabad (Bihar) (Lok Sabha constituency)for seven consecutive terms in the Lok Sabha.
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