Balwant Singh Ramoowalia (born 15 March 1942) is an Indian

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from

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; translation: ''Socialist Party'', founded 4 October 1992) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India, headquartered in New Delhi but mainly based in Uttar Pradesh, with significant presence in other states as w ...

. His father

Karnail Singh Paras Karnail Singh Paras (28 June 1916 – 28 February 2009) was a Shiromani Kavishar award-winning Kavishar of Indian Punjab. He is the father of former union minister and Samajwadi Party politician Balwant Singh Ramoowalia and Canada based writer Iqb ...

was a well-known

Kavishar Kavishari or kavishri ( pa, ਕਵੀਸ਼ਰੀ) is a style of Punjabi folk music entailing energetic and dynamic a cappella singing. It was originated in the Malwa region of Punjab as a sung form of " Chhand-Baddh" kavita (poetry). A perform ...

. Balwant Singh started his political career with student politics as a general secretary of Student Federation of India in 1963. He went on to join All India Sikh Students' Federation and was its president from 1968 to 1972. Later he joined

Akali Dal The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) (translation: ''Supreme Akali Party'') is a centre-right sikh-centric state political party in Punjab, India. The party is the second-oldest in India, after Congress, being founded in 1920. Although there are man ...

and became

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twice from Faridkot and

Sangrur Sangrur is a city in Sangrur district of the Indian state of Punjab, India. It is the headquarters of Sangrur District. Geography Sangrur is located at . It has an average elevation of 237 metres (778 feet). Climate Health s ...

. He left Akali Dal to get elected to

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in 1996 and served as the Union Minister for

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Position held

Ramoowalia was *President of

All India Sikh Students Federation The All India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF), is a Sikh student organisation and political organisation in India. AISSF was formed in 1943. as the youth wing of the Akali Dal, which is a Sikh political party in the Indian Punjab. Origin Befor ...

, 1968–72 *General Secretary,

Students' Federation of India The Students' Federation of India (abbreviated as SFI) is an Indian left-wing student organisation politically aligned to the ideologies of Independence, Democracy and Socialism. Currently, V. P. Sanu and Mayukh Biswas are elected as the All ...

, 1963–64 * * *Leader of Akali Dal in 8th

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*Member, (i) Senate

Punjabi University Punjabi University is a collegiate state public university located in Patiala, Punjab, India. It was established on 30 April 1962 and is only the second university in the world to be named after a language, after Hebrew University of Israel. ...

Patiala Patiala () is a city in southeastern Punjab, India, Punjab, northwestern India. It is the fourth largest city in the state and is the administrative capital of Patiala district. Patiala is located around the ''Qila Mubarak, Patiala, Qila Mubarak ...

, 1978–80, (ii) Syndicate,

, Patiala since 1996, (iii) Board of

Indian Airlines Indian Airlines was a division of Air India Limited. It was based in Delhi and focused primarily on domestic routes, along with several international services to neighbouring countries in Asia. It was a division of Air India Limited after mer ...

, 1991–93, (iv) 6th and 8th

, (v) Public Accounts Committee, 1987–88, (vi) Estimates Committee, 1986–87, (vii) Committee on Public Undertakings, 1988–89, (viii) Business Advisory Committee, 1978–79, (ix) Committee on Petitions, 1978–79, (x) Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Industry, 1985–89, (xi) Consultative Committee for the Ministry of External Affairs, 1978–79 and (xii) Committee on Labour and Welfare * *

Union Minister The Union Council of Ministers Article 58 of the ''Constitution of India'' is the principal executive organ of the Government of India, which is responsible for being the senior decision making body of the executive branch. It is chaired by t ...

, 1996–98 *elected to the

in November, 1996. *Prison minister in

Government of Uttar Pradesh The Government of Uttar Pradesh (ISO: Uttar Pradesh Sarkār; often abbreviated as GoUP) is the subnational government of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh with the governor as its appointed constitutional head of the state by the President of I ...

2015-2017 (

Akhilesh Yadav ministry The Akhilesh Yadav ministry was the Council of Ministers in the 16th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly headed by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. The ministry was formed after the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, in which the Sa ...

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Other associations

*Chief Patron, International Punjabi Society *President, Shiromani Punjabi Sabha *Member, India International Centre. *Travels abroad: UK, U.S., Russia, Canada, Netherlands, Australia, Italy, Iraq, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Japan and Philippines. *Awarded "Secular Punjabi of the Globe" by the Indo-Canadian Association,

Vancouver, British Columbia Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the ...

, Canada. *Publications: Punjab Di Dhaun Utte Talwar.

References

External links

B.S Ramoowalia Speaks On YPDTV

Heroes of 2007: Stopping Scams
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ramoowalia, Balwant Singh Punjabi people Living people Former members of Shiromani Akali Dal Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from Punjab, India Samajwadi Party politicians India MPs 1977–1979 India MPs 1984–1989 1942 births Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha members from Punjab, India People from Faridkot district Members of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council People from Sangrur district