Lovely Anand

Lovely Anand
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 June 2024
Preceded byRama Devi
ConstituencySheohar
In office
1994–1996
Preceded byShivsharan Singh
Succeeded byRaghuvansh Prasad Singh
ConstituencyVaishali
Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly
In office
2005–2005
Preceded byBhuveshwar Singh
Succeeded byGyanendra Kumar Singh
ConstituencyBarh
In office
1996–2000
Preceded byVirendra Kumar Singh
Succeeded byBheem Kumar Yadav
ConstituencyNabinagar
Personal details
Born (1966-12-12) 12 December 1966 (age 57)
Political partyJanata Dal (United)
Other political
affiliations
SpouseAnand Mohan Singh
ChildrenChetan Anand Singh, Surbhi Anand, Anshuman Anand
ResidencePatna

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]

  1. ^ "Jahanabad election results 2024 live updates: RJD's Surendra Prasad secures victory in lok sabha elections". The Times of India. 4 June 2024.
  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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