The country was witnessing a raging struggle for Indian independence led by Mahatma Gandhi during this period and Thakur Ramapati Singh was soon in the midst of this movement leading the Youth Congress in Patna.

[citation needed] Affected by the state of local governance, Singh returned to politics by being elected as chairman of the municipal corporation of Motihari.

[citation needed] In the 1970s during the “days of emergency”, Singh joined the struggle led by Jayaprakash Narayan and worked closely with his close colleague and Janata Party veteran Satyendra Narain Sinha also a prominent political leader of this movement[3] he was repeatedly imprisoned as a political prisoner during the emergency imposed by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

[citation needed] In the elections that followed the emergency, Singh was a candidate of the newly-formed Janata Party and contested and won from his home constituency of Motihari.

[citation needed] Thakur Ramapati Singh died on 12 October 1999 in his home in Chandmari, Motihari, and was cremated in the village of his ancestors.