Avaneesh Kumar Singh

{{Short description|Indian politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| image = Avaneesh.jpg

|office = Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly

| term_start = 2010

| term_end = 2015

| predecessor = Constituency created

| successor = Lal Babu Prasad Gupta

| constituency = Chiraia

| term_start1 = 2005

| term_end1 = 2010

| predecessor1 = Manoj Kumar Singh

| successor1 = Pawan Jaiswal

| constituency1 = Dhaka

| term_start2 = 1990

| term_end2 = 2000

| predecessor2 = Motiur Rahman

| successor2 = Manoj Kumar Singh

| constituency2 = Dhaka

}}

Avaneesh Kumar Singh is an Indian politician and 6 terms MLA from Bihar who had served as MLA from 2010 to 2015 from Chiraia. He had previously represented Dhaka in the Bihar Legislative Assembly from 2005 to 2010 and 1990 to 2000 on BJP ticket. He is known as one of the very first founder's of BJP in north Bihar . He also served as president of Sunyakal Samiti at Bihar Legislative Assembly. He is known as " शेरे बिहार " .

In 2013, despite being a BJP legislator Avaneesh Kumar Singh had opposed Narendra Modi's candidature as Prime Ministerial candidate and had supported Nitish Kumar due to which the BJP suspended him for anti-party activities.{{Cite web |date=2013-09-12 |title=Nitish's developmental model way better than Modi's: BJP legislator |url=https://www.firstpost.com/politics/nitishs-developmental-model-way-better-than-modis-bjp-legislator-1104479.html |access-date= |website=Firstpost |language=}}{{Cite web |date=2014-02-06 |title=Two BJP MLAs suspended for praising CM Nitish Kumar |url=https://www.firstpost.com/politics/two-bjp-mlas-suspended-for-praising-cm-nitish-kumar-1377221.html |access-date= |website=Firstpost |language=en-}} He joined Janata Dal (United) with his supporters and was given ticket to contest to 2014 Lok Sabha election from Purvi Champaran.{{Cite web |date=2014-03-06 |title=Suspended BJP MLA Avanish Kumar Singh joins JD(U) in Bihar |url=https://www.news18.com/news/india/suspended-bjp-mla-avanish-kumar-singh-joins-jdu-in-bihar-672512.html |access-date= |website=News18 |language=}} He even got more than lakh of votes but he was not able to succeed.