Anant Singh: Know this man with all his anecdotes and tales Amarnath Tewary

(Bihar Times) For the readers outside badland Bihar here goes a short profile of an MLA who recently waylaid all and sundry by holding TV journalists captive and brutally beating them for two hours at his official bungalow. The amazing anecdotes, terrifying tales and cranky character of this public representative may make one's pulses paced, throat parched, pupil dilated, heart-muscle twitched or faces flushed. Some call him Chhote Sarkar, some terror of Mokama; some say him don-turned-MLA, some a man of medieval era; some believe him a dare-devil maniac, some a modern day Gabbar Singh but for all he is a man to be feared most in Bihar. He is Anant Singh---JD-U MLA from Mokama. Take a peek at what makes Anant Singh whose name even once made RJD boss Lalu Prasad stand up from his chair; Nitish Kumar to publicly wear him crown and the very daring Patna SSP could not muster courage to enter his bungalow until reinforcement. An unlettered Anant Singh always speaks Magahi, the local lingo. He doesn't converse in Hindi properly. Coming from a toff and tough remote rural background he loves to roam around in the riverine areas of constituency riding on his stallion with his army of armed followers. He was shot twice but defied death. Altogether 35 criminal cases registered against him but he was acquitted in most of them---- with strange tales of impunity behind it. In his late 40s Anant Singh wears many perilously colourful persona. He is a devout bhaktof mighty Goddess and offers prayer religiously for one hour not forgetting to make red tilakand dots on his broad forehead and earlobes. He always wears beads garland and astrological rings on his hand fingers. Always dressed white at day time he prefers to wear black in night. With his stout body he is also a good wrestler always ready to knock his rivals down with his turbo power. He reportedly does hundreds of push-ups and vigorous gymming at his 1A / Mall road residence in Patna. Anant Singh whose name spells terror not only in his constituency but across the state has many anecdotes to shock and surprise people outside the Gangetic gangland. Ever since his formidable entry into the nether world noone political heavyweights of any party could afford to ignore his presence. Earlier, like his association was with the ruling RJD led by Lalu Prasad Yadav. Anant Singh's elder brother Dilip Singh, who passed away recently, was a council member of the party. Lalu's friend-turned-foe Shivanand Tiwari now alleges that Lalu