Charanjit Kaur Bajwa is an Indian politician and a member of
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 Em ...
. She was Member of
Punjab Legislative Assembly
The Punjab Legislative Assembly or the Punjab Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral legislature of the state of Punjab in India. The Sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly was constituted in March 2022. At present, it consists of 117 members, directl ...
and represented
Qadian
Qadian (; ; ) is a city and a municipal council in Gurdaspur district, north-east of Amritsar, situated north-east of Batala city in the state of Punjab, India.
Qadian is the birthplace of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya move ...
. She is the wife of the former Punjab Pradesh Congress committee president and Ex Member of the
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past ...
from Gurdaspur
Pratap Singh Bajwa
Partap Singh Bajwa is an Indian politician having served as a member of the Lok Sabha representing Gurdaspur in Punjab from 2009 to 2014. He is a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Punjab.
Early life
He is the son of Satnam Singh Bajwa ...
(now a Rajyasabha MP).
Political career
Bajwa was elected to the Punjab Legislative Assembly in 2012 from Qadian. She was one of the 42 INC MLAs who submitted their resignation in protest of a decision of the
Supreme Court of India
The Supreme Court of India ( IAST: ) is the supreme judicial authority of India and is the highest court of the Republic of India under the constitution. It is the most senior constitutional court, has the final decision in all legal matters ...
ruling Punjab's termination of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) water canal unconstitutional.
"SYL verdict: 42 Punjab Congress MLAs submit resignation"
''Indian Express'', 11 November 2016
References
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Punjab, India MLAs 2012–2017
Living people
1959 births
People from Gurdaspur district
21st-century Indian women politicians
21st-century Indian politicians
Women members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly