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{{For|the politician from the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh|Bhola Singh (UP politician)}}
{{short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image =
| name = Bhola Singh
| caption =
|office = [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]
|constituency =[[Begusarai (Lok Sabha constituency)|Begusarai]]
|term_start = 16 May 2014
|term_end = 19 October 2018
|predecessor = [[Monazir Hassan]]
|successor = [[Giriraj Singh]]
|constituency1 =[[Nawada (Lok Sabha constituency)|Nawada]]
|term_start1 = 2009
|term_end1 = 2014
|predecessor1 = [[Virchandra Paswan]]
|successor1 = [[Giriraj Singh]]
| party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1939|1|3|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Begusarai district|Begusarai]], [[Bihar Province|Bihar]], [[British India]]
| residence = [[Begusarai]], [[Bihar]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|10|19|1939|1|3|df=y}} <ref>https://www.livebiharnews.in/news/bjp-begusarai-mp-bhola-singh-passed-at-79-years-of-age.html</ref>
| death_place = [[New Delhi]], [[India]]
| alma_mater = [[Patna University]]
| spouse = Smt. Savitri Devi
| children = 3 Sons & 2 Daughters
| website =
|Grandson=5
| footnotes =
| date = 12 December
| year = 2016
| source = http://164.100.47.194/Loksabha/Members/MemberBioprofile.aspx?mpsno=4475
}}

'''Bhola Singh''' (3 January 1939 – 19 October 2018) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the [[Parliament of India|Indian Parliament]] and represented [[Begusarai (Lok Sabha constituency)]] which he won on a ticket from the BJP. Before joining the BJP he had been part of almost every political party in Bihar including the Communist Party, the [[Indian National Congress]], and the Rashtriya Janata Dal. Before getting elected to the Indian Parliament he was the Urban Development Minister of Bihar. He was the Deputy Speaker of the Bihar Legislative Assembly from 2000 to 2005. He was a professor in History before getting elected from Begusarai in 1967 as an independent candidate.<ref>{{cite web | work = Government of India
| url = http://www.indianexpress.com/news/development-not-caste-the-main-factor-in-nawada/445715
| title = Development, not caste, the main factor in Nawada
| author = Santosh Singh
| publisher = [[The Indian Express]]
| date = 2009-04-11
| access-date = 2013-04-22
}}</ref>

Starting his political career in the late 1960s, he has been elected as member of the state legislative assemblyfrom the Begusarai assembly seat eight times since 1967.<ref name=toi>{{cite web | work = Government of India
| url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/lok-sabha-elections-2014/news/Will-Bhola-prove-lucky-for-the-10th-time/articleshow/33978864.cms
| title = Will Bhola prove lucky for the 10th time?
| author = Rajiv Kumar
| publisher = [[The Times of India]]
| date = 2014-04-20
| access-date = 2014-04-29
}}</ref> His only electoral venture outside the district was in 2009 when he successfully contested the general election from Nawada as a BJP nominee.<ref name=toi/>

==Political career==
Bhola Singh's long political journey spanning almost five decades began as a left-supported Independent MLA in 1967 before being formally elected as CPI MLA in 1972.<ref name=toi/> He, however, later joined Congress in 1977 owing to differences with leaders in the CPI and even pulled off a spectacular victory as a Congress nominee from the Begusarai seat in 1977, when only 56 Congress party nominees could be elected in the 324-seat assembly.<ref name=toi/>
Singh has also served as the state home minister in the Chandra Shekhar Singh cabinet.<ref name=toi/> He also held the position of the education minister from 1988-89 under Congress government in the state.<ref name=toi/> However, his date with Congress finally ended after losing two successive assembly elections in 1990 and 1995 during the period when RJD supremo [[Lalu Prasad]] was at his prime.<ref name=toi/> He also joined Lalu's party, the then Janata Dal, and was in it for a brief period.<ref name=toi/> As his political fortune plunged, Singh joined the BJP and his political career was revived when he again managed to win the Begusarai assembly seat in 2000 and retain it in 2005 also. During the period he remained deputy speaker of the state assembly from 2003 to 2005. In 2008, he was made state urban development minister in the NDA government.<ref name=toi/> He died on 19 October 2018 after a long illness.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://zeenews.india.com/india/bjp-mp-from-begusarai-bhola-singh-dies-at-delhi-hospital-2149528.html|title = BJP MP from Begusarai Bhola Singh dies at Delhi hospital|date = 19 October 2018}}</ref>

==References==
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{{16th LS members from Bihar|state=expanded}}

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[[Category:People from Nawada district]]
[[Category:16th Lok Sabha members]]
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[[Category:Deputy Speakers of the Bihar Legislative Assembly]]
[[Category:Communist Party of India politicians from Bihar]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Bihar]]
[[Category:Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Bihar]]
[[Category:Rashtriya Lok Dal politicians]]
[[Category:Patna University alumni]]
[[Category:Bihari politicians]]

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