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| name = Harihar Singh<br />
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| birth_date = 1925<br />
| birth_place = [[Dumraon]], [[Buxar]], [[Bihar]]<br />
| residence = <br />
| death_date = 1994 (aged 68–69)<br />
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| office = 9th [[List of Chief Ministers of Bihar|Chief Minister of Bihar]]<br />
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]<br />
| term_start = 26 February 1969<br />
| term_end = 22 June 1969<br />
| predecessor = [[President's Rule]]<br />
| successor = [[Bhola Paswan Shastri]]<br />
| spouse = <br />
| children = <br />
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'''Harihar Singh''' (1925-1994) was an Indian politician and a former [[List of Chief Ministers of Bihar|Chief Minister of Bihar]]. He succeeded Bhola Paswan Shashtri, as the [[Chief minister|Chief Minister]] of [[Bihar]] in 1969.<ref>{{Cite web|title=अपनों के बीच बेगाने हुए सरदार हरिहर सिंह|url=https://www.livehindustan.com/news/buxar/article1-Between-own-alien-Sardar-Harihar-Singh-664861.html|access-date=2020-10-14|website=Hindustan|language=hi}}</ref> Harihar Singh's tenure as Chief Minister lasted just a few months – he led an [[Indian National Congress|INC]]-led coalition government and all six members of Soshit Dal, a constituent party of the coalition, defected to the Opposition during a budget session of the [[Bihar Legislative Assembly|Bihar Assembly]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/archives/from-the-archives-june-21-1969-bihars-ministry-falls/article28089387.ece|title=From the Archives (June 21, 1969): Bihar's Ministry falls|date=2019-06-21|work=The Hindu|access-date=2019-06-22|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Harihar Singh was born in a small village of [[Chaugain, Buxar|Chaugain]] in [[Buxar]], [[Bihar]] in [[British Empire|British India]] to an upper caste<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-09-12|title=बिहार में 3 मुख्यमंत्रियों के नाम रहा 34 साल, 29 सालों में बने 20 CM|url=https://www.bhaskar.com/news/SPL-BIHEL-NEWS-bihar-chief-minister-story-5111090-PHO.html|access-date=2020-10-14|website=Dainik Bhaskar|language=hi}}</ref> [[Rajput]]<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Narain|first1=Jai Prakash|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mfIdAAAAMAAJ|title=A Revolutionary's Quest: Selected Writings of Jayaprakash Narayan|last2=Narayan|first2=Jayaprakash|date=1980|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-561204-2|language=en}}</ref> family.<br />
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== Legacy ==<br />
He was also a [[Bhojpuri language|Bhojpuri]] poet and has written many patriotic Bhojpuri poems full of nationalist ideas.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sinha|first=Bindeshwari Prasad|title=Kayasthas in making of modern Bihar|publisher=Impression Publication|year=2003}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=The Journal of the Bihar Purāvid Parishad|journal=Bihar Puravid Parishad|volume=19-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Tiwari|first=Arjun|title=Bhojpuri Sahitya Ke Itihas|publisher=Vishwavidyalaya Prakashan|year=2014}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
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*[[List of Rajputs]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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== Biographies ==<br />
* Anugrah Abhinandan Granth samiti. 1947 '' Anugrah Abhinandan Granth.'' [[Bihar]].<br />
* Anugrah Narayan centenary year celebration Committee. 1987. '' Bihar Bibhuti: Vayakti Aur Kriti '', Bihar.<br />
* Bimal Prasad (editor). 1980. ''A Revolutionary's Quest: Selected Writings of Jayaprakash Narayan.'' Oxford University Press, [[Delhi]].<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/debates/members.htm#BIHAR Members of Constituent Assembly from Bihar]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130527160946/http://www.indiarightsonline.com/Sabrang/india7.nsf/38b852a8345861dd65256a980059289d/43f22a268865987a652570de007d9457?OpenDocument First Bihar Government:The Anugrah Babu-Sri Babu Raj]<br />
*[http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/freedom/congress/c127.htm Freedom Fighters of India]<br />
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