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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bajwa, Charanjit Kaur 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