Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa

Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa
General Secretary of AICC for Rajasthan
Incumbent
Assumed office December 2022
Preceded by	Ajay Maken
Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab
In office 20 September 2021 – 16 March 2022 Serving with Om Parkash Soni
Governor	Banwarilal Purohit
Chief Minister	Charanjit Singh Channi
Preceded by	Sukhbir Singh Badal
Member of Legislative Assembly, Punjab
In office March 2012 – 4 June 2024
Preceded by	Nirmal Singh Kahlon
Constituency	Dera Baba Nanak
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 June 2024
Preceded by	Sunny Deol
Constituency	Gurdaspur
Personal details
Born	(1959-02-01) 1 February 1959 (age 66) Dharowali, Punjab, India
Political party	Indian National Congress
Residence(s)	Awakha, Gurdaspur, Punjab, India

Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa (born 1 February 1959) is an Indian politician who was the Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab. He is also a member of Indian National Congress and Member of Punjab Legislative Assembly (MLA) and represents Dera Baba Nanak.[1][2][3]

Early life

Sukhjinder Singh was born on 1 February 1959 at Dharowali village, tehsil Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur district in a Sikh Jatt family.[4] His father's name was Santokh Singh who served as Punjab congress chief twice and was one of the most senior congressmen of his time. Sukhjinder completed his Matric education from Government school Chandigarh in 1975.[5]

Political career

Randhawa first successfully contested Punjab Legislative Assembly from Fatehgarh Churian in 2002 defeating Akali dal's Nirmal Singh Kahlon.[6] In 2012, he was elected from new constituency Dera Baba Nanak.[1] He was one of the 42 INC MLAs who submitted their resignation in protest as part of their decision of the Supreme Court of India ruling Punjab's termination of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) water canal unconstitutional.[7]

Member of Legislative Assembly

He represents the Dera Baba Nanak Assembly constituency as MLA in Punjab Assembly. The Aam Aadmi Party gained a strong 79% majority in the sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly by winning 92 out of 117 seats in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. MP Bhagwant Mann was sworn in as Chief Minister on 16 March 2022.[8]

Committee assignments of Punjab Legislative Assembly

• Member (2022–23) Committee on Estimates[9]

Electoral performance

Punjab Assembly election, 2022: 10. Dera Baba Nanak

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa	52,555	36.70
	SAD	Ravikaran Singh Kahlon	52,089	36.40
	AAP	Gurdeep Singh Randhawa	31,742	22.2
	Independent	Jagjit Singh	2,684	1.86
	BJP	Kuldeep Singh	1,913	1.33
	NOTA	None of the above	1,099	0.6
Majority			466	0.33
Turnout			1,44,359	73.3
Registered electors			194,613	[10]
	INC hold

Punjab Assembly election, 2017: 10. Dera Baba Nanak[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa	60385	42.83
	SAD	Sucha Singh Langah	59191	41.98
	AAP	Gurpartap Singh Khushalpur	17222	12.21
	NOTA	None of the above	961	0.68
Majority			1194
Turnout
Registered electors			183,088	[12]
	INC hold

Punjab Assembly election, 2012: 10. Dera Baba Nanak[13][11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa	66,294	50.22
	SAD	Sucha Singh	63,354	47.99
Majority			3060
Turnout
	INC gain from SAD

References

1. "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2012 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF PUNJAB" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
2. "MLA' S Punjab". Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee. Archived from the original on 31 July 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
3. "Punjab Congress Crisis Live Updates: New CLP leader likely to be announced today". The Times of India. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
4. "Personal information of MLA Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa". Punjab Legislative Assembly official website. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
5. "Details of Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa". Association For Democratic Reforms. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
6. "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2002 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF PUNJAB" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
7. "SYL verdict: 42 Punjab Congress MLAs submit resignation". 11 November 2016.
8. "AAP's Bhagwant Mann sworn in as Punjab Chief Minister". The Hindu. 16 March 2022. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
9. "vidhan Sabha". punjabassembly.nic.in.
10. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
11. Election Commission of India. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2017". Retrieved 26 June 2021.
12. Chief Electoral Officer - Punjab. "Electors and Polling Stations - VS 2017" (PDF). Retrieved 24 June 2021.
13. "Dera Baba Nanak Assembly election result, 2012". Retrieved 13 January 2017.