Chief Minister of Bihar

Profile Tel: 0612-2223886, 2224784 (O). 2222079 (R) Father's Name : Late Shri Kaviraj Ram Lakhan Singh Mother's Name : Smt. Parmeshwari Devi Date of Birth : 1st March, 1951. Place of Birth : Bakhtiarpur, District - Patna, State - Bihar. Marital Status : Married. Date of Marriage : 22nd February, 1973. Spouse's Name : Smt. Manju Kumari Sinha. No. of Children : One. Educational : B.Sc. (Engineering) Qualifications Educated at Bihar College of Engineering, Patna, Bihar. Profession : Political & Social Worker, Agriculturist, Engineer. Permanent Address : Village - Hakikatpur, PO - Bakhtiarpur, District - Patna, Bihar. Present Address : Patna, Bihar. Positions Held 1985-89 : Member, Bihar Legislative Assembly. 1986-87 : Member, Committee on Petitions, Bihar Legislative Assembly. 1987-88 : President, Yuva Lok Dal, Bihar. 1987-89 : Member, Committee on Public Undertakings, Bihar Legislative Assembly. 1989 : Secretary-General, Janata Dal, Bihar. 1989 : Elected to 9th Lok Sabha. 1989-16/7/1990 : Member, House Committee (Resigned). 4/1990-11/1990 : Union Minister of State, Agriculture and Co-operation. 1991 : Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (2nd term). 1991-93 : General-Secretary, Janata Dal. Deputy Leader of Janata Dal in Parliament. 17/12/91-10/5/96 : Member, Railway Convention Committee. 8/4/93-10/5/96 : Chairman, Committee on Agriculture. 1996 : Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (3rd term). Member, Committee on Estimates. Member, General Purposes Committee. Member, Joint Committee on the Constitution (Eighty-first Amendment Bill, 1996). 1996-98 : Member, Committee on Defence. 1998 : Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (4th term). 19/3/98-5/8/99 : Union Cabinet Minister, Railways. 14/4/98-5/8/99 : Union Cabinet Minister, Surface Transport (additional charge). 1999 : Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (5th term). 13/10/99-22/11/99 : Union Cabinet Minister, Surface Transport. 22/11/99-3/3/00 : Union Cabinet Minister, Agriculture. 3/3/00-10/3/00 : Chief Minister, Bihar. 27/5/00-20/3/01 : Union Cabinet Minister, Agriculture. 20/3/01-21/7/01 : Union Cabinet Minister, Agriculture with additional charge of Railways. 22/7/01-21/5/04 : Union Cabinet Minister, Railways. 2004 : Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha (6th term). Member, Committee on Coal & Steel. Member, General Purposes Committee. Member, Committee of Privileges. Leader Janata Dal (U) Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha. From 24/11/2005 Chief Minister, Bihar.   Countries Visited Widely traveled in various capacities: Singapore, Thailand. Havana (Cuba) and Moscow (Russia) - as a member of Indian Delegation to the World Youth Festival in 1978. Australia and France - as a Member of Indian Parliamentary Delegation to the IPU Conference. France, Switzerland and UK - as the Railway Minister. Japan - as the Agriculture Minister to attend Regional Conference of FAO in Yokohama. Other Information Activist of J.P. Movement (1974-77); was detained in 1974 under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (M.I.S.A.) and also during Emergency in 1975; Founder-member, Samata Party Movemen