Mohan Singh

This article is about the General Secretary of the Samajwadi Party of India. For the Indian military officer and first leader of the Indian National Army during World War II, see General Mohan Singh.

Mohan Singh
MP
Constituency	Deoria
Personal details
Born	4 March 1945 (1945-03-04) (age 66) Deoria, Uttar Pradesh
Political party	SP
Spouse(s)	Urmila Singh
Children	2 daughters
Residence	Deoria
Religion	Hindu
As of 17 September, 2006 Source: [1]

Mohan Singh (born 4 March 1945) is an Indian politician from the Samajwadi Party. He was elected three times to the Lok Sabha from Deoria in Uttar Pradesh. He is currently the General Secretary of the Samajwadi Party.

Political career

Mohan Singh, son of Mahendra Pratap Singh, was born in Deoria in the village Jainagar in 1945. During his college life, Sh. Mohan Singh was president of Allahabad University Students' Union during 1968–69. After college, he was detained for 20 months during emergency for taking part in Jayaprakash Narayan's movement. He was also imprisoned several times while taking part in student agitation in year 1966, once for occupying Anand Bhavan, Allahabad, and also in an agitation launched by Socialist party on the language issue. He was jailed along with Madhu Limaye for participating in Satyagraha in year 1973.^[1]

He has been elected at numerous Indian constitutional posts including member of Parliament thrice—elected to 10th Lok Sabha (1991–96), re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (2nd term) (1998) and Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha (3rd term). He was also member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly during year (1977–85) and Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (1977–79).

Apart from these tenures, he had been member of numerous parliamentary committees including Committee on Public Undertakings (1983–85), Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council (1990–91), Committee of Privileges ( ), Business Advisory Committee (1998–99), Committee on Official Language ( ), Committee on Home Affairs and its Subcommittee on Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme ( ), Committee of Privileges ( ), Consultative Committee, Ministry of Tourism ( ), Committee on Rural Development ( ), House Committee ( ).

References

1. ^ Seema Mustafa. "'Amar Singh Was An Inner Contradiction". Tehelka. http://www.tehelka.com/story_main43.asp?filename=Ne130210amar_singh.asp. Retrieved 2010-02-06. 

External links

• Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website

Persondata
Name	Singh, Mohan
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Date of birth	4 March 1945
Place of birth	Deoria, Uttar Pradesh
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