Lovely Anand | |
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| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| Assumed office 4 June 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Rama Devi |
| Constituency | Sheohar |
| In office 1994–1996 | |
| Preceded by | Shivsharan Singh |
| Succeeded by | Raghuvansh Prasad Singh |
| Constituency | Vaishali |
| Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 2005–2005 | |
| Preceded by | Bhuveshwar Singh |
| Succeeded by | Gyanendra Kumar Singh |
| Constituency | Barh |
| In office 1996–2000 | |
| Preceded by | Virendra Kumar Singh |
| Succeeded by | Bheem Kumar Yadav |
| Constituency | Nabinagar |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 December 1966 |
| Political party | Janata Dal (United) |
| Other political affiliations | |
| Spouse | Anand Mohan Singh |
| Children | Chetan Anand Singh,Surbhi Anand,Anshuman Anand |
| Residence | Patna |
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]