RK Sinha, SIS Founder and Former Rajya Sabha MP, Dies at 75

Ravindra Kishore Sinha, known as RK Sinha, the founder of Security and Intelligence Services and a former Rajya Sabha member for Bihar, died on Friday, October 30 at his residence in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. He was 75.

Sinha founded SIS in Patna in 1974, building it from a service that found work for retired servicemen into one of India's largest private security, facility management and cash logistics groups. He served in the Rajya Sabha from 2014 to 2020 as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. No official cause of death has been announced.

Tributes from ministers and chief ministers

Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said the news of Sinha's passing was extremely sorrowful and painful. In his condolence message, reported by NationPress, Sonowal called Sinha a founding member of the BJP and a senior figure from the Jan Sangh era, and called his death an irreparable loss for the party.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also posted a condolence message. "The passing of former Rajya Sabha MP Shri R.K. Sinha ji is extremely sorrowful. Humble tribute. I pray to Lord Shri Ram to grant the departed soul sadgati and give his grief-stricken family the strength to bear this immeasurable loss. Om Shanti," he wrote, in the translation reported by NationPress.

Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary and Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan, Giriraj Singh and Rajiv Ranjan Singh, known as Lalan Singh, were among the other leaders who posted condolences on October 30.

From journalism to a security company

Sinha was born on 22 September 1951 in Bihar, with his roots in Buxar district. He studied political science and law and graduated from Anugrah Narayan College in Patna. He began his career as a journalist.

In 1974 he founded Security and Intelligence Services in Patna. The company was set up to help retired servicemen find work as security guards after the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War. Bihar Tak, the India Today network channel, traced his journey from the JP movement to the Rajya Sabha in its report on his death.

The company he built

SIS grew from that Patna start into one of India's largest private security, facility management and cash logistics groups, operating in India and Australia. Sinha remained the group's founder and group chairman. The work he started in 1974, placing former servicemen in guard jobs, became the base of a business that now works across two countries.

Six years in the Rajya Sabha

Sinha served as a Rajya Sabha member for Bihar from 10 April 2014 to 9 April 2020, as a member of the BJP. Party colleagues remembered him on Friday as one of the party's founding members, a link between its Jan Sangh past and its present in Bihar and in national politics.