Lovely Anand

EN Texto en inglés Aún no hay artículo en tu idioma: extracto en inglés.

Lovely Anand is an Indian politician from the Janata Dal United, and a Member of Parliament representing Sheohar (Lok Sabha constituency) in Bihar, India and former Member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly. She also served as a member of 10th Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India. She comes from a well connected political family as her mother's cousin Madhuri Singh was a member of parliament in 1980's from Congress party. But her political career started as the debutant candidate for the new Bihar People's Party established by her husband, Anand Mohan Singh, Lovely Anand had defeated a heavyweight parliamentarian Kishori Sinha, the wife of former Bihar Chief Minister Satyendra Narayan Sinha, in a 1994 Lok Sabha by-election in the north Bihar constituency of Vaishali. She did not contest the 1996 elections and failed to re-win it in those of 1999. Kishori Sinha also happened to be mother in law of her cousin and former MP Shyama Singh (daughter of Madhuri Singh). Anand has also twice been elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Bihar, winning once in Barh and again in Nabinagar. Her husband is Anand Mohan Singh, whom she had married in 1991, and who had engineered her 1994 by-election success. He had twice been the MP for Sheohar, in 1996 and 1998, and his wife stood as a Samajwadi Party candidate there in the 2014 general election. She claimed that she had switched party allegiance because the Indian National Congress (INC) had "neglected" her after she had unsuccessfully stood as their candidate in that constituency in the 2009 national election and in the Alamnagar constituency at the 2010 Bihar Assembly elections. In 2015, Anand became involved with the Hindustani Awam Morcha party and contested from Sheohar constituency. She lost the elections...