Party Name : Janata Dal (United)
Constituency : Munger
State : Bihar
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 3 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 17
Father's Name : Late Jwala Prasad Singh
Mother's Name : Smt. Kaushalya Devi
Date of birth : 24 Jan 1955
Profession : Social Worker
Positions held :
April 2000-04 Elected to Rajya SabhaMember, Standing Committee on Petroleum and ChemicalsMember, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of CoalMember, Committee on Subordinate Legislation2004 Elected to 14th Lok SabhaMember, Committee on Petroleum and Natural GasMember, Committee on Public Undertakings5 Aug. 2007 - May 2009 Member, Committee on Petroleum & Natural Gas1 May 2008 Member, Committee on Public Accounts2009 Re-elected to 15th Lok Sabha (2nd term)6 Aug. 2009 Member, Committee on Public Undertakings31 Aug. 2009 Member, Committee on Coal and Steel23 Sep. 2009 Member, Committee of Privileges1 May 2010 Member, Committee on Public Undertakings2014 - 2019 Member, Bihar Legislative AssemblyMinister, Government of BiharMay, 2019 Re-elected to 17th Lok Sabha (3rd term)20 June 2019 onwards Member, Business Advisory Committee24 July 2019 onwards Member, Committee on Public Accounts13 Sept. 2019 onwards Member, Standing Committee on Energy11 Dec. 2019 onwards Member, Joint Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 201921 Nov. 2019 onwards Member, General Purposes Committee, Lok Sabha13 Sept. 2020 onwards Member, Standing Committee on EnergyMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
More Information :
Social And Cultural Activities
Participated in student movement of 1974 led by Loknayak Jay Prakash Narayan; Fought against Corruption
Special Interests
Study
Countries Visited
Widely travelled,Moscow (U.S.S.R) to represent the country in World Youth Festival in 1985; Mexico, U.S.A. and the Netherlands, France and Switzerland - as member of delegation of farmers in 2001; London (U.K.), as member of U.N. AIDS delegation; New York, as a member of Indian delegation to UN General Assembly in 2003; Barcelona (Spain) and Bangkok in World AIDS Conference
Other Information
General Secretary, College Students Union; actively participated in the movement led by Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narain in 1974; brought many important public issues through Public Interest Litigation (PIL) including A.H.D. Scam, Bihar to the High Court and Supreme Court
