Ramanand Prasad Singh

Singh won as an MLA for the first time in the Parbatta Assembly constituency representing Janata Dal (United) in the 2004 Bihar Legislative Assembly byelection. He later retained the seat winning the 2005 elections in February and October. He lost the 2010 election to Samrat Chaudhary of RJD by a narrow margin of 808 votes but regained it winning the 2014 byelection in August.^[2] He retained the seat winning the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election. He polled 76,248 votes and defeated his nearest rival, Ramanuj Choudhary of Bharatiya Janata Party, by a margin of 28,924 votes.^[3][4][5]

In 2008, he was inducted into the Nitish Kumar ministry as Transport Minister but had to quit within a couple of months due to an old vigilance case.^[6]

Singh died at a hospital in Patna on 10 May 2025.^[7]