Anand Mohan Singh is a politician(also a writer/poet) and was founder of the now-defunct Bihar People's Party (BPP).
As of 2015, he is serving a life sentence for abetting murder; prior to reduction to this term on appeal, he had been the first politician in independent India to be given the death penalty.
He comes from the village of Panchgachiya in Saharsa district, Bihar.