Balbir Singh Sidhu is the former member of

Punjab Legislative Assembly The Punjab Legislative Assembly or the Punjab Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the state of Punjab (India), Punjab in India. The Sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly was constituted in March 2022. At present, it consists of 117 ...

and was ex Cabinet Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Labour in Punjab Government.

Career

He joined the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British E ...

in the '90s and served as Joint Secretary, Vice president, and Senior Vice president of the Punjab Youth Congress Committee. He was also appointed in charge of Congress during Lok Sabha election 1999 in

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising a ...

. In 2007 Punjab assembly election he won from Kharar Assembly constituency by defeating

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 ...

candidate Jasjit Singh. Again won from S. A. S. Nagar Assembly constituency in

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and then in

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elections. He joined

Bhartiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

on 4 June 2022 along with

Raj Kumar Verka Dr. Raj Kumar Verka is an Indian politician and a member of Bhartiya Janta Party. He is a Member of Punjab Legislative Assembly (MLA) and represented Amritsar West as Indian National Congress member. He was also vice chairman of National Comm ...

Gurpreet Singh Kangar Gurpreet Singh Kangar is an Indian politician from Punjab, India. He was a member of Punjab Legislative Assembly and was also a minister in Second Amarinder Singh ministry. He had won the assembly election as a member of Indian National Congres ...

, Sundar Sham Arora, and others at the party office in

Chandigarh Chandigarh () is a planned city in India. Chandigarh is bordered by the state of Punjab to the west and the south, and by the state of Haryana to the east. It constitutes the bulk of the Chandigarh Capital Region or Greater Chandigarh, which a ...

References

1959 births Living people 21st-century Indian politicians Politicians from Barnala district Punjab, India MLAs 2007–2012 Former members of Indian National Congress from Punjab Punjab, India MLAs 2012–2017 Punjab, India MLAs 2017–2022 Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Punjab {{PunjabIN-BJP-politician-stub