Gajendra Narayan Singh (politician)

Singh went into exile to Darbhanga in 1960, when King Mahendra seized control of the country after putting into prison the leaders of the ruling Nepali Congress in the brief period when Nepal experienced multi-party democracy between 1959 and 1960.

He continued to wear the traditional Dhoti and Kurta in the parliament while the official dress was the "Daura Suruwal".

Despite opposition from the Pahadi parliamentarians, Singh was not ashamed to speak in Hindi in parliamentary debates.

Singh’s pet objective was to get full citizenship rights to a majority of Terains who were born and brought up in Terai.

From the configuration of electoral districts, regions to recruitment in the army and Police, the Terains were and continue to be discriminated against in every field.

Singh on his return from exile believed that the interests of the Terains would best be served by working within the Panchayat system and accordingly stood for elections in 1980 in Saptari district.

Soon after the bomb blasts by the Janawadi Morcha of Ram Raja Prasad Singh near the Palace in the eighties, G.N.Singh was arrested and kept in chains for many months.

Gajendra Chauk in the center of the city Rajbiraj named after renowned madheshi democratic revolutionary leader Gajendra Narayan Singh which was previously named by King Tribhuvan. Sometimes also referred as the 'Gol Chauk'.