First Chief Minister of Bihar

                                                                        

Shri Krishna Singh

(02.04.1946 - 31.01.1961)

Sri Krishna Singh (21 October 1887 – 31 January 1961) known as Dr. S. K. Singh, Sri Babu and Bihar Kesari was the first Chief Minister of the Indian state of Bihar (1946–61).

 Singh was born on 21 October 1887 in Khanwa in Nawada district of Bihar. His paternal village is Maur, near Barbigha in the then Munger District that is now part of Sheikhpura District. His father was a religious, middle-class member of a Bhumihar Brahmin family. His mother, who was also an unassuming and religious-minded person, died of plague when he was five years old. He was educated in the village school and at Zila School in Munger. In 1906 he joined Patna College, which was then an affiliate of the University of Calcutta. He studied law and started practicing in Munger from 1915. In the meantime, he married and had two sons, Shivshankar Singh and Bandishankar Singh (more commonly known as Swaraj Babu) who later held various posts in the state government.

Sri Krishna Singh First Chief Minister of Bihar in a meeting on 11th Nov 1960 Friday.