Amrendra Pratap Singh

Amrendra Pratap Singh
Amrendra Pratap Singh
Minister of Agriculture; Government of Bihar
	In office; 16 November 2020 – 9 August 2022
Chief Minister	Nitish Kumar
Preceded by	Prem Kumar
Minister of Co-operatives; Government of Bihar
	In office; 16 November 2020 – 9 February 2021
Chief Minister	Nitish Kumar
Preceded by	Rana Randhir
Succeeded by	Subhash Singh
Minister of Sugarcane Industries; Government of Bihar
	In office; 16 November 2020 – 9 February 2021
Chief Minister	Nitish Kumar
Preceded by	Bima Bharti
Succeeded by	Pramod Kumar
Deputy Speaker of Bihar Legislative Assembly
	In office; 2012–2015
Speaker	Uday Narayan Choudhary
Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2020
Preceded by	Mohammad Nawaz Alam
Constituency	Arrah
	In office; 2000–2015
Preceded by	Abdul Malik
Succeeded by	Mohammad Nawaz Alam
Constituency	Arrah
Personal details
Born	20 July 1947[1]; Chaugain village in Buxar district
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Parent	Harihar Singh (father);
Residence(s)	Arrah, Bihar, India

Amrendra Pratap Singh is an Indian politician and a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly serving as a minister in the Government of Bihar. He is the grandson of Harihar Singh, the former Chief Minister of Bihar.

Early and Personal Life

Singh was born in Chaugain village of the Shahabad district (now in Buxar) to Harihar Singh also known as Bihari Ji Singh. His grand father was a freedom fighter and the Chief Minister of Bihar and his elder brother Mrigendra Pratap Singh was the Finance minister and speaker of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly.[2]

Singh joined Jana Sangh in the state of Bihar as an associate of Raghubar Das, former Chief Minister of Jharkhand. Inspired by Jayaprakash Narayan, he also took part in the JP Movement. After split of the Jana Sangh faction from Janata Party, he too joined the newly formed Bharatiya Janata Party. He was granted candidacy by the BJP to contest six consecutive elections[3] of which he got elected on four occasions.[4] Between 2000–2015, he was the representative of the Arrah constituency.[5] He was also made the deputy speaker of the assembly from 2012–2015.[6] In the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, he lost his seat to Mohammad Nawaz Alam of the RJD. He won his seat back in the 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election on a BJP ticket supported by NDA defeating his nearest rival of MGB with an impressive margin. He was appointed a Cabinet Minister in the Seventh Nitish Kumar ministry for the first time.

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