Shyama Singh
Shyama Singh | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament for Aurangabad | |
| In office 1999–2004 | |
| Preceded by | Sushil Kumar |
| Succeeded by | Nikhil kumar |
| Constituency | Aurangabad |
| Vice-President Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee | |
| In office 2004–2017 | |
| Constituency | Aurangabad |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 November 1942 Patna, Bihar |
| Died | 11 September 2017 (aged 74) Delhi |
| Political party | INC |
| Spouse | Nikhil Kumar |
| Residence(s) | Delhi, Patna |
As of 7 September, 2009 Source: | |
Shyama Singh (born 26 November 1942 – 11 September 2017) was an Indian politician and a former Member of Parliament from the Aurangabad (Bihar) (Lok Sabha constituency) and was married to the former Governor of Nagaland and Kerala, Nikhil Kumar, who was also elected to the 14th Lok Sabha from the same constituency in Bihar. She joined Congress at the initiative of Rajiv Gandhi, the late Prime Minister of India, whom she met at a social event in Delhi.As a parliamentarian,her crowning achievement was reviving the Nabinagar Super Thermal Power Project which her father-in-law and veteran Bihar leader Late Satyendra Narayan Singh had conceived in 1989 as the then Chief Minister of Bihar.Shyama Singh was also the vice president of the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee.