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Vijay Kumar Singh (politician, died 2021)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ120333564 ↗
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Vijay Kumar Singh (died 2021) was an Indian politician from Bihar.

Early life and education

Singh was born in Srinagar, Madhepura district, Bihar. His father Jai Kumar Singh was also a MLA from Singheshwar Assembly constituency.

Political career

He represented the Singheshwar Assembly constituency as a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly from 2000 to 2005. He was a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal. In 2005, he failed to secure re-election.

Death

Singh died in 2021 from COVID-19.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vijay Kumar Singh (politician, died 2021)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.