FormerBiharassembly speaker and veteranCongressleaderSadanand Singhdied here on Wednesday after prolonged illness, party sources said. He was 76.
Singh breathed his last at a hospital here where he had been admitted for more than a month.
An OBC leader in a party which has been associated mostly with the upper castes, he was chosen for the speaker’s chair by the party Leadership in 2000 when it was seeking to reinvent itself by projecting a pro-backward image in alliance with the RJD.