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<div align="center">[[File:Sardar_Krishna_Nandan_Singh.jpeg|border|Sardar Krishna Nandan Singh]]</div>
<div align="center">[[File:Sardar_Krishna_Nandan_Singh.jpeg|border|Sardar Krishna Nandan Singh]]</div>


*Sardar Krishna, full name Sardar Krishna Nandan Singh, was a three term Sikh Bhumihar MLA from Arwal who had adopted Sikhism in his early years. Such was his popularity in the South Bihar region that he contested Bihar Legislative Assembly elections as an independent, without being affiliated with any political, not from his native Patna district, but from the neighbouring district of Arwal and still won three terms from there.
*Sardar Krishna, full name Sardar Krishna Nandan Singh, was a '''three term (1980-95) Sikh Bhumihar MLA from Arwal, Bihar''' who had adopted Sikhism in his early years, founded ''Brahmarshi Sena'' to fight the Naxalite menace in Bihar. Such was his popularity in the South Bihar region that he won Bihar Legislative Assembly elections independently 3 times in a row, without being affiliated to any political party, from the neighbouring district of Arwal.
[[File:Krishna description.jpeg|thumb|center|600px|Krishna Singh]]
[[File:Krishna description.jpeg|thumb|center|600px|Krishna Singh]]
*He belonged to '''the village of Akhtiyarpur in Paliganj Block, Patna district'''.
*He belonged to '''the village of Akhtiyarpur in Paliganj Block, Patna district'''.