Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (6 June 1946 – 13 September 2020) was an Indian politician.
He was represented In the Lok Sabha from the Vaishali constituency of Bihar and was the national vice president of the political party Rashtriya Janata
Dal. Mr Singh was most known for steering the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), the UPA government’s
flagship program as Minister for Rural Development (2004-09).
He was one of the senior-most politicians in India as a people's representative in the legislature for four decades from 1977.
He has represented the Vaishali constituency from Bihar in Lok Sabha consecutively for five terms and has been in the Union cabinet for three
terms.
He died from complications of COVID-19 at All India Institutes of Medical Sciences in New Delhi on 13 September 2020, at age 74.