A Life Dedicated to Farmers

Shri Sudhakar Singh won the Buxar seat by 30,091 votes, defeating the BJP candidate and ending the BJP’s decade-long hold over the constituency. His politics has been anchored in a consistent commitment: that Bihar’s farmers must receive remunerative prices for their produce, not subsidies as substitutes for fair returns.

Long before he held ministerial office, he was a visible presence in farmer mobilisations, organising a large protest in Ramgarh in solidarity with the farmers’ agitation at Delhi’s borders, and pressing for the implementation of Minimum Support Price, improved irrigation infrastructure, and the revival of Bihar’s mandi system after the repeal of the state’s APMC Act in 2006.

He comes from a family with deep roots in Bihar’s public life. His father, Shri Jagada Nand Singh, represented Buxar in the Lok Sabha and served six terms as MLA from Ramgarh before going on to lead the Rashtriya Janata Dal as state president. Sudhakar Singh won the Ramgarh assembly seat on an RJD ticket in 2020 before moving to national politics with his 2024 victory from Buxar. He is a graduate of Delhi University.

When the Mahagathbandhan government took office in Bihar in 2022, Sudhakar Singh was given charge of the Agriculture portfolio. Within weeks, he raised serious concerns about corruption within his own department and the gap between official claims and the lived reality of Bihar’s farmers. Rather than soften his position to preserve office, Singh resigned from the ministry.

He later stated that the issues behind his resignation, including the need for a genuine agricultural roadmap centred on farmers’ incomes and Minimum Support Price, deserved greater public attention. It was a short tenure, but a defining one. In the years since, Singh has continued to make the same argument from the Opposition benches: that successive governments’ promises to raise farmers’ incomes have not been matched by the institutional reform required to deliver them.

His resignation is remembered less as a setback than as a marker of the kind of public representative he has chosen to be: one willing to forfeit office rather than preside over a status quo he believed was failing the people who elected him.

Parliamentary Record

In the 18th Lok Sabha, Singh has maintained an active parliamentary record. As per available PRS Legislative Research data, his attendance stands at 95 percent, against a national average of 85 percent and a Bihar average of 89 percent. He has participated in 32 debates and raised 92 questions in the House.

His parliamentary interventions reflect the same priorities that have defined his public life. On agriculture, he has participated in discussions on the Demands for Grants for the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, and has raised questions on the implementation of the Unique Farmer ID, the impact of cyclonic weather on paddy cultivation, the timeline for Bihar’s proposed Makhana Board, genome-edited rice varieties, and ICAR’s agreements with private companies.

On infrastructure, he has pressed for the expedited construction of roads in Kaimur district under the Bharatmala project, raised the matter of land acquisition compensation under the same scheme in Aurangabad, and questioned the government on toll policy, expressway service lanes, and the proposed Buxar–Bhagalpur expressway.

A significant share of his work in Parliament has been devoted to securing institutions and infrastructure for Buxar itself. He has raised issues concerning the establishment of an AIIMS facility and a cancer institute in Buxar, the inclusion of the constituency in the PRASHAD religious tourism scheme, sewage treatment infrastructure for Buxar and Kaimur, and improved railway facilities at Buxar, Dumraon, Raghunathpur and Chausa stations.

He has also participated in major national debates, including discussions on the Union Budget, the Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address, the 75th anniversary of the Constitution of India, and the Waqf (Amendment) Bill. Singh serves as a Member of the Standing Committee on Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Food Processing.

Current Focus & Public Trust

Alongside his agrarian advocacy, Singh has also raised concerns about electoral and institutional accountability. In 2025, he criticised the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar, arguing that the process risked excluding the landless, the poor and the unlettered. He also wrote to the Election Commission seeking publication of deleted voter lists in Hindi, stating that rural voters and booth-level agents should be able to understand and verify the lists.

As Bihar moves through a politically significant period, Singh continues to combine his focus on farmers’ rights with broader concerns about democratic participation, institutional fairness and constitutional accountability. His politics rests on the consistency of the issues he has raised before, during and after holding office: fair prices for farmers, accountability in governance, rural infrastructure, social justice and the protection of citizens’ democratic rights.

As a Member of Parliament, Shri Sudhakar Singh continues to work towards a politics that places farmers, workers, youth and marginalised citizens at the centre of policy-making. His public life reflects a commitment to a more equal, accountable and democratic India, where development is measured not only by growth, but by justice, dignity and the lived realities of the people.