Chandradeo Prasad Verma (21 January 1921[2]– 30 April 2005)[3] was a politician who was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament of India from the Arrah, Bihar in 1977, 1980 and 1996.

[8][9] He participated in Indian independence movement and was also involved in the labour strike of 1940 in South Bihar Sugar Mills at Bihta (Patna) under the leadership of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati.

[10] During this period, when the struggle for indian independence was on its peak, he made attempts to blast the Bikram Airport (Patna) in order to defy the colonial rule.

Despite holding a number of offices, he was again involved in 1974 Total Revolution, which was started by Jayprakash Narayan against the authoritarian rule of Indira Gandhi government from Bihar.

He is said to have persuaded Prasad to read various political ideologies and philosophers in order to work for improvement of social status of Dalits.

As a leader of trade unionists, he actively pursued the cause of Arrah-Sasaram Light Railway and Fatuha Islampur Martins Light-Railway employees for their regularisation, who were facing the threat of eviction due to government policies.