| Office | Member of Parliament
|
|---|---|
| Term start | 1994 |
| Term end | 1996 |
| Predecessor | Shivsharan Singh |
| Successor | Raghuvansh Prasad Singh
|
| Constituency | Vaishali
|
| Born | 1966-12-12 (age 60)
|
| Political party | Rashtriya Janata Dal |
| 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.
She comes from a well connected political family as her mother's cousin Madhuri Singh was a member of parliament in 1980's from 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,[1] 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.[2] She did not contest in the 1996 elections[3] and failed to re-win it in those of 1999.[4]
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 (MLA) of Bihar, winning once in Barh and again in Nabinagar.[5]
Her husband, Anand Mohan Singh, whom she had married in 1991,[6] and who had engineered her 1994 by-election success,[3] is serving a life sentence for abetting murder.[7] He had twice been the MP for Sheohar, in 1996 and 1998, and his wife stood as a Samajwadi Party candidate there in the 2014 general election. She claimed that she had switched party allegiance because the Indian National Congress (INC) had "neglected" her[3] after she had unsuccessfully stood as their candidate in that constituency in the 2009 national election[8]Template:Efn and in the Alamnagar constituency at the 2010 Bihar Assembly elections.[9]
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.[10]
Anand has continued to protest the innocence of her husband, standing for election on that basis[3][8] and claiming that her husband is the victim of a political conspiracy and has never been a criminal or gang leader.[11] 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[12] and was acquitted on appeal to the High Court.[13]Template:Efn
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.[14]
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References
Notes Template:Notelist Citations
- ↑ Bihar's biwi brigade(6 October 2013).
- ↑ Pinned Lynch. Outlook(15 October 2007).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Don's wife, the lone warrior in battle of mighty - 'Neglected' by Congress, Anand Mohan's spouse Lovely seeks votes on Samajwadi Party ticket. The Telegraph(5 May 2014).
- ↑ Bahu woos Saharsa voters. The Tribune(22 February 2000).
- ↑ 10th Lok Sabha members. Lok Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi.
- ↑ Law's Arm: 13 Years Long. Tehelka(20 October 2007).
- ↑ Supreme Court upholds life term for ex-MP in DM murder case. The Hindu(11 July 2012).
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Did Lovely fake birth date to become MP?. The Times of India(23 April 2009).
- ↑ Bihar - Alamnagar. Election Commission of India.
- ↑ Lovely Anand Joins HAM. United News of India(29 July 2015).
- ↑ The godmothers of Bihar. Hindustan Times(24 November 2010).
- ↑ DM murder case: Former MP Lovely Anand gets bail. Rediff(9 October 2007).
- ↑ Top RJD leader meets convicted don-turned-politician Anand Mohan in Bihar jail. New Indian Express(2 February 2018).
- ↑ Leaders lobby for their kids as Bihar election approaches. India Today(24 August 2015).