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New Delhi: Anant Kumar Singh, former Mokama MLA and a notorious criminal with a record of 52 cases, ranging from abduction and murder to violations of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), wasted no time when he walked out of a Patna jail on 15 days of parole earlier this week..
Despite being a convicted criminal, Singh wields considerable clout in Munger, under which Mokama falls..
ThePrint pieces together the life and journey of Anant Singh, or Chhote Sarkar, and how his relationship with two top leaders of the state current Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and former CM Lalu Prasad Yadav decided his fate and consequently, that of the candidates in Mokama...
In the last assembly polls in 2020, Singh joined hands with Lalu Yadavs RJD because he was upset with Lalan, the JD(U) national president at the time, whom he is now campaigning for. Singh contested from his bastion, Mokama, and won with RJDs lantern symbol...
Another political leader in Patna, on the condition of anonymity, told ThePrint that Anant Singh had also purchased a horse from Lalu Yadav at Sonepur cattle fair in 2007, using his frontmans name, knowing that Yadav would not be willing to sell the horse to him if he had divulged his own...
