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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
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{{Infobox Indian politician
| name = Mahamaya Prasad Sinha
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1909|5|1|df=yes}}
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| death_date = 1987 (aged 87-88)
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| order = 5th
| office = Chief Minister of Bihar
| constituency = Patna West
| term_start = 5 March 1967
| term_end = 28 January 1968<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_states.html#Bihar | title=States of India since 1947 | publisher=World Statesman | accessdate=7 April 2018}}</ref>
| predecessor =[[K. B. Sahay]]
| successor = [[Satish Prasad Singh]]
| office1 = [[Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]
| constituency1 = [[Patna (Lok Sabha constituency)|Patna]], [[Bihar]]
| term1 = 1977-1980
| predecessor1 = [[Ramavatar Shastri]]
| successor1 = [[Ramavatar Shastri]]
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| party = [[Janata Party]]
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| otherparty = [[Indian National Congress]] ,Jana Kranti Dal
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| source = http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/2608.htm
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'''Mahamaya Prasad Sinha''' (1 May 1909 – 1987) was an Indian politician. He was the fifth Chief Minister of [[Bihar]] from March 1967 to January 1968 which was the first non congress Government in Bihar. Sinha was a follower of Maharaja [[Kamakhya Narain Singh]] and Maharaj Kumar [[Basant Narain Singh]] and was a member of their political Jan Kranti Dal. He was elected to the [[6th Lok Sabha]], lower house of the [[Parliament of India]] from the [[Patna (Lok Sabha constituency)|Patna constituency]] of [[Bihar]] in 1977. Before quitting Congress, he was among the four prominent leaders of Bihar unit during 1960s, the others being [[Krishna Ballabh Sahay]], [[Satyendra Narayan Sinha]] and [[Binodanand Jha]].<ref name="Grover1997">{{cite book|author=Verinder Grover|title=Political Parties and Party System|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ERsVf_DPFUC&pg=PA553|accessdate=7 April 2018|year=1997|publisher=Deep & Deep Publications|isbn=978-81-7100-878-0|pages=553–|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110319084817/http://cm.bih.nic.in/formercm-bihar.htm|archive-date=19 March 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Chatterjee1992">{{cite book|author=Sibranjan Chatterjee|title=Governor's Role in the Indian Constitution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8UQpnoasCDYC&pg=PA175|accessdate=7 April 2018|date=1 January 1992|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-7099-325-4|pages=175–}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.patnadaily.com/index.php/guest-columns/247-dr-binoy-shanker-prasad/12627-1967-to-2017-bihar-celebrates-half-a-century-of-decay-in-education.html | title=1967 to 2017: Bihar Celebrates Half a Century of Decay in Education | publisher=Patna Daily | work=DR. BINOY SHANKER PRASAD | date=16 June 2017 | accessdate=7 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1150708/jsp/bihar/story_30220.jsp | title=One-week CM holds real Nayak flag | publisher=Telegraph India | work=Nalin Verma | date=8 July 2015 | accessdate=7 April 2018}}</ref><ref name="Gopal2017">{{cite book|author=Surendra Gopal|title=Mapping Bihar: From Medieval to Modern Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mCZFDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT150|accessdate=7 April 2018|date=22 December 2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-03416-6|pages=150–}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/bihar-in-bharat-election-through-the-years/ | title=Bihar in Bharat: Election through the years | publisher=Indian Express | accessdate=7 April 2018}}</ref>

==Early life==
Mahamaya Prasad was born in 1909. He sprang from a very aristocratic [[Kayastha]] family of [[Siwan district]] in Bihar. His academic career was marked by brilliance and popularity. He was in the public gaze as an athlete.

==Political career==
In 1929 he was to go to the I.C.S but joined the Civil Disobedience Movement. He was appointed the Dictator of the District and imprisoned for one year. Again he was arrested and sentenced to seven months imprisonment. In the prison he had a heat stroke and completely lost his voice.

Since 1931 he was a member of the A.I.C.C. for many years and became the President of the District Congress Committee. He was a very prominent political worker of Bihar. He was an able organizer and a gifted writer. Said Babu Rajender Prasad, "Mr Sinha is a most powerful speaker and one of the best workers of the province and is just like a son to me".{{cn|date=September 2017}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.kamat.com/database/biographies/mahamaya_prasad.htm Biography: Mahamaya Prasad Sinha], Kamat Research Database
*[http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/2608.htm Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website]

{{Chief Ministers of Bihar}}

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[[Category:Bihar MLAs 1967–1969]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Bihar]]
[[Category:Bharatiya Lok Dal politicians]]
[[Category:Janata Party politicians]]

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