:

Late Shri Kaviraj Ram Lakhan Singh

Mother's Name

:

Late 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

:

Late Smt. Manju Kumari Sinha

No. of Children

:

One

Educational Qualification

:

B.Sc. (Engineering) from Bihar College of Engineering, Patna

Profession

:

Political & Social Worker, Agriculturist, Engineer.

Permanent Address 

:

Village - Hakikatpur, PO - Bakhtiarpur, District - Patna, Bihar.

Present Address

:

Patna, Bihar.

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

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

:

the Agriculture Minister to attend Regional Conference of FAO in Yokohama.