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Deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha, Harivansh Narayan Singh, was born on June 30, 1956. He is a famous Indian journalist and politician, who is the current Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
Hailing from Sitab Diara village in Saran district of Bihar. He did his graduation & Post graduation in Economics from Banaras Hindu University and also holds Diploma in Journalism. In 1977, Harivansh joined Times of India as a trainee journalist. Later, he moved to Mumbai to work in 'Dharmyug' magazine till 1981..From 1981 to 1984, Harivansh worked with Bank of India. He then joined magazine 'Ravivar' as an assitant editor. 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. He served as an additional media advisor to former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar. He has long associated himself with social reformer and activist Jayaprakash Narayan during his college days. Singh also participated actively in the JP movement of 1974..He comes from the same region where socialist leader and anti-Emergency crusader Jai Prakash Narayan was born. He has authored and edited several books in Hindi, especially on Bihar and Jharkhand.
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