Harivansh Narayan Singh
Constituency: Bihar

Full name: Harivansh Narayan Singh
Born/Date of Birthday: 30 June 1956
Place of Birth: Vill. Sitabdiara, Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, India
Nationality: Indian
Political party: Janata Dal (United)
Educational Qualification : B.A., M.A. (Economics), Diploma in Journalism Educated at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
Profession : Journalist/Writer

Marital Status : Married on 23 April 1978
Spouse's Name : Shrimati Asha Singh
Children : One son and one daughter
Parents: Late Shri Banke Bihari Singh, Late Shrimati Devjani Devi
Permanent Address : Vrindavan Colony, Chiraundi Bodeya Road, Ranchi-834006 (Jharkhand) Tel.- {0651} 2551900, Mobile: 9431114265

Harivansh Narayan Singh (born 30 June 1956) is an Indian journalist and politician, who is the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha representing Bihar.

Early life
He did his graduate and post graduate in Economics from Banaras Hindu University and also holds Diploma in Journalism. He resides at Ranchi.

Journalistic career
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 Chandra Shekhar. 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.

Political career
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. He was re-elected as the deputy chairman of the Rajya Sabha on 14 September 2020 after he returned to the Rajya Sabha for his second term from Bihar.