He was a member of
saraiya community and his daughter
Suchitra Singh is married to
Nagmani, son of
Jagdeo Prasad who was popularly known as "
Lenin of Bihar". Singh headed a coalition government led by
Soshit Samaj Dal and supported by the
Indian National Congress. He was elected to the
7th Lok Sabha (the lower house of the
Parliament of India) from the
Khagaria constituency of
Bihar in 1980 as a member of the Congress Party. He was the first Chief Minister of Bihar who belonged to the
other backward classes. Singh joined the
Indian National Congress in 1980 and was elected to the Lok Sabha in his very first attempt. He later joined the
Bhartiya Janata Party in September 2013 but later quit the party after protesting against the poor representation of
Kushwahas in the assembly tickets distribution. Singh hailed from a prosperous family and owned more than 50 acre land. He married Gyan Kala, who belonged to another caste. The inter-caste marriage being difficult in those days, they had to defy their parents in order to marry each other. ==Death==