Harivansh Narayan Singh - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Harivansh Narayan Singh (born 30 June 1956) is an Indian journalist and politician, who is the current Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He did his graduation & Post graduation in Economics from Banaras Hindu University and also holds Diploma in Journalism.
He resides at Ranchi.He has worked in several different media publications through his career, starting with The Times of India.
He served as an additional media advisor to former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar.
He joined the then obscure and nearly dead Hindi publication Prabhat Khabar in 1989, and scaled it to become one of the top newspapers in India, in terms of circulation.
The newspaper was known for investigating many high-profile stories, including the Fodder scam.In 2014, the Janata Dal (United) nominated Singh to the Rajya Sabha from the state of Bihar for a six-year term.
On 8 August 2018, he was elected as Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha for a six-year term as the candidate of the National Democratic Alliance, winning the election by a vote of 125 to 105 against the opposition candidate.
He is the third person ever and first in forty years to hold this post who is not from the Indian National Congress.

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