Bikram Singh Majithia (born 1 March 1975) is an Indian politician and a former cabinet minister in the Punjab Government. He won 2007

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elections from the Majitha constituency, and again won in 2012 and 2017. He belongs to

Shiromani 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 is president of its Youth Wing, Youth Akali Dal.

Background and family

Majithia was born on 1 March 1975 to former Deputy Defence Minister Satyajit Singh Majithia and Sukhmanjus Kaur Majithia in

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. He was educated at the Lawrence School Sanawar. His grandfather Sardar Surjit Singh Majithia was a

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in the Indian Air Force and his great-grandfather Sir Sundar Singh Majithia was Revenue Minister in the Punjab government. He is the younger brother of

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MP,

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and brother-in-law of former Deputy Chief Minister of

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, Sukhbir Singh Badal. Bikram married Ganieve Kaur in November 2009 and they have two sons.

Political career

He first won the

elections from the Majitha constituency in 2007. He won again from the same constituency in 2012 and 2017 assembly elections. Subsequently he was inducted into the Punjab Cabinet. He is ex minister of Revenue, Rehabilitation and Disaster Management, Information & Public Relations and Non Conventional Energy. In February 2022, Majithia surrendered before a Mohali court in the drug case registered against him in December 2021, and was remanded in judicial custody till 8 March. While his wife Ganieve contested from Majitha constituency in the

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and won, Majithia instead contested from Amritsar East, and lost. He is imprisoned in Patiala Jail along with his rival Congress leader

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against whom Majithia contested the 2022 Punjab Assembly elections. On 10 August 2022, the

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granted bail to Majithia.

Electoral performance

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Majithia, Bikram Singh 1975 births Living people Shiromani Akali Dal politicians State cabinet ministers of Punjab, India Place of birth missing (living people) Punjab, India MLAs 2012–2017 People from Amritsar district Punjab, India MLAs 2017–2022 Indian politicians convicted of crimes

Background and family

Political career

Electoral performance

See also

References

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