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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.[1] 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,[2] 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.[3] She did not contest the 1996 elections[4] and failed to re-win it in those of 1999.[5]

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.[6]

Her husband is Anand Mohan Singh, whom she had married in 1991,[7] and who had engineered her 1994 by-election success.[4][8] 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[4] after she had unsuccessfully stood as their candidate in that constituency in the 2009 national election[9][a] and in the Alamnagar constituency at the 2010 Bihar Assembly elections.[12]

In 2015, Anand became involved with the Hindustani Awam Morcha party and contested from Sheohar constituency. She lost the elections by a margin of around 400 votes.[13]

Anand has continued to protest the innocence of her husband, standing for election on that basis[4][9] and claiming that her husband is the victim of a political conspiracy and has never been a criminal or gang leader.[14] She and some others had been found guilty in the same case as that of her husband, which was determined in 2007 when she was a member of the JDU party, but she later obtained bail[15] and was acquitted on appeal to the High Court.[16][b]

Anand has a BA degree from Ranchi University. She and her husband have 2 sons and a daughter; her son, Chetan Anand, has also expressed a desire to be elected.[18]

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  1. ^ According to Arun Sinha, Lovely Anand was one of several wives of convicted criminals who were put forward for election by their husbands as a proxy in 2009 when courts rejected most of the husbands' appeals to stand in their own right. They were following a model adopted by Lalu Prasad Yadav and his wife, Rabri Devi, but "got the greatest shock of their life when voters rejected their dummies".[10] She finished in fourth place with 81,479 votes.[11]
  2. ^ Anand was a member of Janata Dal (United) between 2005-2007.[17]

Citations

  1. ^ "Jahanabad election results 2024 live updates: RJD's Surendra Prasad secures victory in lok sabha elections". www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com.
  2. ^ "Bihar's biwi brigade". The Times of India. 6 October 2013. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  3. ^ Gupta, Smita (15 October 2007). "Pinned Lynch". Outlook. PTI. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  4. ^ a b c d Kumar, Piyush (5 May 2014). "Don's wife, the lone warrior in battle of mighty - 'Neglected' by Congress, Anand Mohan's spouse Lovely seeks votes on Samajwadi Party ticket". The Telegraph. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  5. ^ "Bahu woos Saharsa voters". The Tribune. 22 February 2000. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  6. ^ "10th Lok Sabha members". Lok Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi. Archived from the original on 8 June 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
  7. ^ St Das, Anand (20 October 2007). "Law's Arm: 13 Years Long". Tehelka. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  8. ^ "Supreme Court upholds life term for ex-MP in DM murder case". The Hindu. 11 July 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  9. ^ a b Parashar, Sachin (23 April 2009). "Did Lovely fake birth date to become MP?". The Times of India. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  10. ^ Sinha, Arun (2011). Nitish Kumar and the Rise of Bihar. Penguin. p. 347. ISBN 978-06-7008-459-3.
  11. ^ Wallace, Paul; Roy, Ramashray, eds. (2011). India's 2009 Elections: Coalition Politics, Party Competition and Congress Continuity. SAGE Publications India. p. 324. ISBN 978-8-13210-774-3.
  12. ^ "Bihar - Alamnagar". Bihar Assembly Elections Nov 2010 Results. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 27 November 2010.
  13. ^ "Lovely Anand Joins HAM". United News of India. 29 July 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  14. ^ Donthi, Praveen (24 November 2010). "The godmothers of Bihar". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  15. ^ Sahay, Anand Mohan (9 October 2007). "DM murder case: Former MP Lovely Anand gets bail". Rediff. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  16. ^ "Top RJD leader meets convicted don-turned-politician Anand Mohan in Bihar jail". New Indian Express. 2 February 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  17. ^ Singh, Santosh (30 December 2016). "Bihar People's Party: The party launched by Anand Mohan, his wife Lovely its only ever MP". Indian Express. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  18. ^ Vikram, Kumar (24 August 2015). "Leaders lobby for their kids as Bihar election approaches". India Today. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
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