Rameshwar Prasad Sinha

Rameshwar Prasad Sinha
Rameshwar Prasad Sinha
Member Of Constituent Assembly
	In office; 9 December 1946 – 26 January 1950
Preceded by	Post Created
Succeeded by	None
Constituency	Vaishali
Personal details
Died	1965; Patna
Children	Kishori Sinha

Rameshwar Prasad Sinha (also transliterated as Rameshwar Prasad Singh) was an Indian statesman and a participant in the Indian independence movement. He was a Member of the Constituent Assembly of India which was elected to write the Constitution of India, and served as its first Parliament as an independent nation. He was also a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Bihar. He was known for his oratorical skills and his speeches to the masses, both in English and Hindi. He started practising law in 1915, but gave it up in 1921 to take part in Mahatma Gandhi's non co-operation movement. He was imprisoned twice during the freedom struggle.

His only daughter Kishori Sinha was also a Two-term Member of Parliament from the Vaishali constituency and is married to Satyendra Narayan Sinha a former Chief Minister of Bihar. He died in 1965.

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