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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Lovely Anand
| image =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|12|12|df=yes}}
| residence = [[Patna]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| office = [[Member of Parliament]]
| constituency = [[Vaishali (Lok Sabha constituency)|Vaishali]]
| term_start = 1994
| term_end = 1996
| predecessor = Shivsharan Singh
| successor = [[Raghuvansh Prasad Singh]]
| party = [[Rashtriya Janata Dal]]
| otherparty = *[[Hindustani Awam Morcha]]
*[[Samajwadi Party]]
*[[Indian National Congress]]
*[[Samata Party]]
| spouse = [[Anand Mohan Singh]]
| children = [[Chetan Anand Singh]], Surbhi Anand, Anshuman Anand
}}
'''Lovely Anand''' is an Indian politician and former member of the [[10th Lok Sabha]], the [[lower house]] of the [[Parliament of India]]. And grand daughter of India's freedom fighter shri Rameshwar Prashad Singh.

{{Short description|Indian politician}}

She comes from a well connected political family as her mother's cousin [[Madhuri Singh]] was a member of parliament in 1980's from [[Nationalist Congress Party|Congress party]]. But her political career started as the debutant candidate for the new [[Bihar People's Party]] established by her husband, [[Anand Mohan Singh]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/deep-focus/Bihars-biwi-brigade/articleshow/23601794.cms | title=Bihar's biwi brigade | work=[[The Times of India]] | date=6 October 2013 | accessdate=22 November 2017}}</ref> Lovely Anand had defeated a heavyweight parliamentarian [[Kishori Sinha]], the wife of former [[Bihar]] [[Chief Minister]] [[Satyendra Narayan Sinha]], in a 1994 Lok Sabha by-election in the north Bihar constituency of [[Vaishali (Lok Sabha constituency)|Vaishali]].<ref name="outlook2007">{{cite news |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/pinned-lynch/235751 |work=Outlook |agency=PTI |title=Pinned Lynch |first=Smita |last=Gupta |date=15 October 2007 |accessdate=2015-06-07}}</ref> She did not contest in the [[1996 Indian general election|1996 elections]]<ref name="telegraph">{{cite news
|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/bihar/don-s-wife-the-lone-warrior-in-battle-of-mighty-neglected-by-congress-anand-mohan-s-spouse-lovely-seeks-votes-on-samajwadi-party-ticket/cid/180486 |work=The Telegraph |title=Don's wife, the lone warrior in battle of mighty - 'Neglected' by Congress, Anand Mohan's spouse Lovely seeks votes on Samajwadi Party ticket |first=Piyush |last=Kumar |date=5 May 2014 |accessdate=2019-01-19}}</ref> and failed to re-win it in those of [[1999 Indian general election|1999]].<ref>{{cite news |work=The Tribune |date=22 February 2000 |title=Bahu woos Saharsa voters |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000222/nation.htm |accessdate=2015-06-10}}</ref>

[[Kishori Sinha]] also happened to mother in law of her cousin [[Shyama Singh]] (daughter of [[Madhuri Singh]])

Anand has also twice been elected as a [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of the Legislative Assembly]] (MLA) of [[Legislative Assembly of Bihar|Bihar]], winning once in [[Barh (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Barh]] and again in [[Nabinagar]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/state1to12.aspx?state_name=Bihar |title=10th Lok Sabha members |accessdate=12 July 2012 |publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150608152858/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/state1to12.aspx?state_name=Bihar |archive-date=8 June 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Her husband, Anand Mohan Singh, whom she had married in 1991,<ref>{{cite news|title=Law's Arm: 13 Years Long |first=Anand |last=St Das |work=Tehelka |url=http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main34.asp?filename=Ne201007LAW.asp |date=20 October 2007 |accessdate=2015-06-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610131126/http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main34.asp?filename=Ne201007LAW.asp |archivedate=10 June 2015 }}</ref> and who had engineered her 1994 by-election success,<ref name="telegraph"/> is serving a life sentence for abetting murder.<ref name="hindu2012">{{cite news |date=11 July 2012 |title=Supreme Court upholds life term for ex-MP in DM murder case |work=The Hindu |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/supreme-court-upholds-life-term-for-exmp-in-dm-murder-case/article3625609.ece |accessdate=2015-06-07}}</ref> He had twice been the MP for [[Sheohar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Sheohar]], in 1996 and 1998, and his wife stood as a [[Samajwadi Party]] candidate there in the [[2014 Indian general election|2014 general election]]. She claimed that she had switched party allegiance because the [[Indian National Congress]] (INC) had "neglected" her<ref name="telegraph"/> after she had unsuccessfully stood as their candidate in that constituency in the [[2009 Indian general election|2009 national election]]<ref name="toi">{{cite news |work=The Times of India |title=Did Lovely fake birth date to become MP? |date=23 April 2009 |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Did-Lovely-fake-birth-date-to-become-MP/articleshow/4436605.cms |first=Sachin |last=Parashar |accessdate=2019-01-19}}</ref>{{efn|According to Arun Sinha, Lovely Anand was one of several wives of convicted criminals who were put forward for election by their husbands as a proxy in 2009 when courts rejected most of the husbands' appeals to stand in their own right. They were following a model adopted by [[Lalu Prasad Yadav]] and his wife, [[Rabri Devi]], but "got the greatest shock of their life when voters rejected their dummies".<ref>{{cite book |first=Arun |last=Sinha |publisher=Penguin |page=347 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sh5gpivjgjMC&pg=PT347 |title=Nitish Kumar and the Rise of Bihar |isbn=978-06-7008-459-3 |year=2011}}</ref> She finished in fourth place with 81,479 votes.<ref>{{cite book |title=India's 2009 Elections: Coalition Politics, Party Competition and Congress Continuity |editor1-first=Paul |editor1-last=Wallace |editor2-first=Ramashray |editor2-last=Roy |publisher=SAGE Publications India |year=2011 |isbn=978-8-13210-774-3 |page=324 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wZ6HAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA324}}</ref>}} and in the [[Alamnagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Alamnagar constituency]] at the [[2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election|2010 Bihar Assembly elections]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS0470.htm |title=Bihar - Alamnagar |work=Bihar Assembly Elections Nov 2010 Results |publisher=Election Commission of India |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127005933/http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS0470.htm |archivedate=2010-11-27}}</ref>

In 2015, Anand became involved with the [[Hindustani Awam Morcha]] party and contested from Sheohar constituency. She lost the elections by a margin of around 400 votes.<ref>{{cite news |work=United News of India |url=http://www.uniindia.com/news/other/lovely-anand-joins-ham/145331.html |title=Lovely Anand Joins HAM |date=29 July 2015 |accessdate=2019-01-19}}</ref>

Anand has continued to protest the innocence of her husband, standing for election on that basis<ref name="telegraph"/><ref name="toi"/> and claiming that her husband is the victim of a political conspiracy and has never been a criminal or gang leader.<ref>{{cite news |work=Hindustan Times |title=The godmothers of Bihar |first=Praveen |last=Donthi |date=24 November 2010 |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/the-godmothers-of-bihar/article1-617030.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314024642/http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/the-godmothers-of-bihar/article1-617030.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 March 2014 |accessdate=2019-01-19}}</ref> She and some others had been found guilty in the same case as that of her husband, which was determined in 2007 when she was a member of the JDU party, but she later obtained bail<ref>{{cite news |work=Rediff |url=https://www.rediff.com/news/2007/oct/09bihar.htm |title=DM murder case: Former MP Lovely Anand gets bail |first=Anand Mohan |last=Sahay |date=9 October 2007 |accessdate=2019-01-19}}</ref> and was acquitted on appeal to the High Court.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2018/feb/02/top-rjd-leader-meets-convicted-don-turned-politician-anand-mohan-in-bihar-jail-1767325.html |work=New Indian Express |date=2 February 2018 |title=Top RJD leader meets convicted don-turned-politician Anand Mohan in Bihar jail |accessdate=2019-01-19}}</ref>{{efn|Anand was a member of Janata Dal (United) between 2005-2007.<ref name="ie">{{cite news |work=Indian Express |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/bihar-people-party-fake-political-on-papers-party-money-laundering-tax-evasion-4451039/ |title= Bihar People's Party: The party launched by Anand Mohan, his wife Lovely its only ever MP |first=Santosh |last=Singh |date=30 December 2016 |accessdate=2019-01-19}}</ref>}}

Anand has a BA degree from [[Ranchi University]] She and her husband have 2 sons and a daughter; her son, Chetan Anand, has also expressed a desire to be elected.<ref>{{cite news |work=India Today |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/mail-today/story/leaders-lobby-for-their-kids-as-bihar-election-approaches-289851-2015-08-24 |title=Leaders lobby for their kids as Bihar election approaches |first=Kumar |last=Vikram |date=24 August 2015 |accessdate=2019-01-19}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Politics of Bihar]]

==References==
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'''Citations'''
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