Shyama Singh (born 26 November 1942 – 11 September 2017) was an Indian politician and a former[1] Member of Parliament from[2] the Aurangabad (Bihar) (Lok Sabha constituency) and was married to the former[3] Governor of Nagaland and Kerala, Nikhil Kumar, who was also elected to the 14th Lok Sabha from the same constituency in Bihar.
She joined Congress at the[4] initiative of Rajiv Gandhi, the late Prime Minister of India, whom she met at a social event in Delhi.As a parliamentarian,her crowning achievement was[4] reviving the Nabinagar Super Thermal Power Project which her father-in-law and veteran Bihar leader Late Satyendra Narayan Singh had conceived in 1989 as the then Chief Minister of Bihar.Shyama Singh was also the[5] vice president of the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee.
Her elder brother is former bureaucrat and Rajya Sabha MP N. K. Singh (A 1964 batch IAS officer of the Bihar cadre)[8] who has served as India's Revenue Secretary and also Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India.
As an MP, She initiated several development projects in Schools, Women's College and a new computer centre was set up in the district.
[citation needed] Shyama Singh passed[15] away during the course[5] of her treatment at Delhi's Escorts Fortis hospital in the wee hours of 11 September 2017 after a prolonged illness.The Congress chief Sonia Gandhi[7] while expressing her deep condolences remarked in her message " (Shyama) Singh served the people with immense dedication and her noteworthy contributions to the well-being of the people of Aurangabad shall be never be forgotten.” The Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in[16] his condolence message said Singh was a popular politician and a noted social worker.