litterateur and parliamentarian shankar dayal singh (hindi: डा० शंकर दयाल सिंह) was twice elected to the parliament of india. he was one of the youngest members of the fifth lok sabha, in which he represented the chatra parliamentary constituency in bihar (now in jharkhand). contesting his maiden lok sabha election in 1971, he defeated smt. vijaya raje, the wife of sri kamakhya narayan singh, raja of ramgarh. he was again elected to the upper house, the rajya sabha, in 1990 from bihar.