Anand Mohan Singh

Anand Mohan Singh is a convicted criminal who for a period became a politician and was founder of the now-defunct Bihar People's Party (BPP). As of 2014, he is serving a life sentence for abetting murder; prior to reduction to this term on appeal, he had been the first politician in independent India to be given the death penalty. He comes from the village of Panchchgachiya in Saharsa district, Bihar, India, where some of the population consider him to be a Robin Hood figure.

Early life

Anand Mohan Singh comes from Panchchgachiya village in Saharsa, Bihar and comes from a Tomar Rajput family. He is a grandson of Ram Bahadur Singh, an Indian freedom fighter. His introduction to politics came through involvement with the Sampoorna Kranti movement of Jayaprakash Narayan, which caused him to drop out of college in 1974.

Career

Singh claims to have begun his career as a violent criminal when he was aged 17 and that this was in response to the treatment of poor people by what he describes as "politicised criminals" in his native state of Bihar. The politics of Bihar has for many years been influenced by caste divisions, and Singh has been portrayed as a leader of the Rajput community in the state. Shifts in power, especially since 1990, have reduced the Rajputs, who are traditionally a ruling class, into a subordinate position.

Mohan Singh

Mohan Singh (4 March 1945 – 22 September 2013) was an Indian politician from the Samajwadi Party. He was elected three times to the Lok Sabha from Deoria in Uttar Pradesh. He was the General Secretary of the Samajwadi Party. He died on 22 September 2013, due to cancer, in Aiims, Delhi.

Political career

Mohan Singh mannikrao gaikawad, son of manikrao gaiwad, was born in Deoria in the village Jainagar in 1945. During his college life, Sh. Mohan Singh was president of the Allahabad University Students' Union during 1968–69 and was largely inspired by the father of the Indian socialist movement Raj Narain and Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia and later with Madhu Limaye. After college, he was detained for 20 months during emergency for taking part in Raj Narain and Jayaprakash Narayan's movement. He was also imprisoned several times while taking part in student protests in 1966, once for occupying Anand Bhavan, Allahabad, and also in an agitation launched by the Socialist party on the language issue. He was jailed along with Madhu Limaye for participating in Satyagraha in 1973.

Mohan Singh (poet)

Mohan Singh (1905-1978), was a noted Indian poet of Punjabi language and academic, and one of early pioneers of modern Punjabi poetry.

Biography

Born in 1905 at Mardan (now in Pakistan), Mohan Singh spent the early years of his life at his ancestral village Dhamial (Rawalpindi). His poem Kuri Pathohar Di is reminiscent of his romantic early days. He obtained a Master's degree in Persian and started his career as a Lecturer in Persian, Urdu and Punjabi at Khalsa College, Amritsarin 1933. He was well read in English, Persian and Urdu literatures. At amritsar, Teja Singh, Sant Singh Sekhon, Gurbachan Singh 'Talib' became his friends. In 1940, he joined as a lecturer in the Sikh National College, Lahore, but after some time he left the job and started a firm, Hind Publishers to promote the literary standards of Punjabi publications. In 1939, he started his famous literary Punjabi monthly, Panj darya. After Partition In 1947 he shifted his business to Amritsar and then to Jullundur, but ultimately he closed down the firm. Then he became the teacher in Khalsa College, Patiala. Later, he worked as Professor Emeritus at the Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana from 1970 to 1974 and made this industrial town of Punjab his home towards the end of his life. He died on 3 May 1978 at Ludhiana.

Mohan Singh (general)

Mohan Singh (in Punjabi ਮੋਹਨ ਸਿਂਘ)(1909–1989) was an Indian military officer and member of the Indian Independence Movement best known for his role in organising and leading the First Indian National Army in South East Asia during World War II. Following Indian independence, Mohan Singh later served in public life as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House) of the Indian Parliament.

Early life

He was born the only son of Tara Singh and Hukam Kaur, a peasant couple of Ugoke village, near Sialkot (now in Pakistan). His father died two months before his birth and his mother shifted to her parents home in Badiana in the same district, where Mohan Singh was born and brought up.

Military career

As he passed high school, he joined the 14th Punjab Regiment of the British Indian Army in 1927. After the completion of his recruit training at Hrozpur, Mohan Singh was posted to the 2nd Battalion of the Regiment, then serving in the North-West Frontier Province. He was selected as a potential officer in 1931, and after six months' training in Kitchener College, Nowgong (Madhya Pradesh), and another two and a half years in the Indian Military Academy, Dehra Dun, he received his commission in 1934 and was posted for a year to a British unit, the 2nd Border Regiment, and then to 1/14th Punjab Regiment the 1st Battalion of his former 14th Punjab Regiment, which at that time happened to be at Jhelum. World War II broke out in 1939.

Anand Mohan

Anand Mohan (Hindi: आनंद मोहन), born on September 29, 1957 at Dharmashala, is Registrar (education) of Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra (India) and former Professor at Department of Geology, Banaras Hindu University. He is an eminent scientist in the field of Geology, Petrology and Mineralogy. He is a member of XII Five Year Plan (2012–2017) of Planning Commission sub-committee on “Strengthening Community Engagement in Higher Education Institutions”. He is also expert reviewer for Earth Sciences at Union Public Service Commission, India. He is Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, India (FASc) and National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc).

Education and personal life

Mohan did his B.Sc. (Hons) in year 1976 and Ph.D. (Metamorphic Petrology) in year 1983 from Banaras Hindu University. After the completion of his Ph.D., he joined University Grants Commission (India) as Research Scientist “A” (1984–86) and then joined Department of Geology, Banaras Hindu University as faculty in year 1986. Mohan visited University of Leicester (UK) for his Postdoctoral research on Leverhulme Commonwealth Fellowship.