Basawon Singh (Sinha) / Great Nationalist, Trade Unionist and First Leader of Opposition in Bihar

Great Nationalist, Trade Unionist and First Leader of Opposition in Bihar; earlier active with HSRA (Hindustan Socialist Republican Army) and later joined Congress Socialist Party. He had spent eighteen and a half years in prison in British India fighting for India's independence. In the early phase of his life he was a revolutionary but later turned to Democratic Socialism. He was among the foremost proponents of Democratic Socialism in India.