Harjot Singh Bains is an Indian politician of AAP from Punjab. He won from Anandpur Sahib Assembly constituency in

2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly elections were held in Punjab on 20 February 2022 to elect the 117 members of the 16th Assembly of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 10 March 2022. The Aam Aadmi P ...

. He is currently Cabinet Minister in Punjab Government. On 19 March 2022 he took oath as the youngest ever cabinet minister in the history of Punjab state by breaking the record of Bikram Singh Majithia.

Biography

Bains hails from Village Gambhirpur in Shri Anandpur Sahib tehsil, district Ropar of Punjab. His grandfather Late S. Ujjagar Singh Bains was an employee in BBMB Nangal and worked in the construction of Bhakra Nangal Dam and his maternal grandfather Late S. Kabal Singh Dhillon was one of the leading contractors of his time in Nangal. He did his schooling from Ludhiana and BA LLB Hons. from Punjab University. He has also been to London School of Economics and Political Science for a short course in International Human Rights Law. He is a practicing lawyer in Punjab and Haryana High Court. He has been part of many social movements and founded a Pan Punjab United Youth Organization at the age of 18. He actively participated in the India Against Corruption movement. He was the founding president of the

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in Punjab at the age of 23. In 2016, he led the , 15-day "Nawa Punjab March" against drug abuse in Punjab, walking from Shri in

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to the border of

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Political career

2017 Punjab assembly election

In the

2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election A Legislative Assembly election was held in the Indian state of Punjab on 4 February 2017 to elect the 117 members of the Fifteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly. The counting of votes was done on 11 March 2017. The ruling pre-election coalition w ...

, he was the

candidate to represent the Sahnewal Assembly constituency. He ran as a candidate from Sahnewal in the 2017 assembly elections but was unsuccessful, securing 39,000 votes at the age of 26. He is spokesperson for the Aam Aadmi Party and member of the National Executive of the Aam Aadmi party.

2022 Punjab assembly election

Mr. Bains won 2022 Punjab assembly elections from Shri Anandpur Sahib constituency by defeating Mr. Rana KP Singh of Congress Party by more than 45,000 votes. The Aam Aadmi Party gained a strong 79% majority in the

sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly Election for the Sixteenth Legislative Assembly was held in the Indian state of Punjab. Polling was done on 20 February 2022 to elect the 117 members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. The counting of votes declaration of results was done on 10 ...

by winning 92 out of 117 seats in the

. MP

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was sworn in as

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on 16 March 2022. On 14 October 2022, Bains was appointed the AAP Himachal Pradesh in charge, for the

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Member of Legislative Assembly

Bains was elected as the MLA in the

. He represented the Anandpur Sahib Assembly constituency in the

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Cabinet minister

Bains took oath as a cabinet minister along with nine other MLAs on 19 March at Guru Nanak Dev auditorium of Punjab Raj Bhavan in

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. Eight ministers including Bains who took oath were greenhorn (first term) MLAs. As a cabinet minister in the

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, Bains was given the charge of four departments of the Punjab Government: # Department of Legal & Legislative Affairs # Department of Mines & Geology # Department of Jails # Department of Tourism & Cultural Affairs

Jails minister

In May 2022, Bains announced that the jail superintendents would be held accountable for illegal use of mobile phones inside the jail premises by the inmates. In June 2022, he announced that more than 1000 mobile phones were confiscated since the AAP government came to power in Punjab in February. He announced that the modernization of prisons was ongoing and the recruitment process of 1000 jail wardens was happening to meet the staff shortage in the prison department. He stated that the prison officials in Punjab were committed to transforming jails into real 'sudhar ghars' (correctional facilities). He said that jails no longer provided luxurious facilities as they did in past.

Mines minister

As Minister for mines, Bains introduced stricter regulations for mining. The regulations were designed to impact the sand mafia in Punjab.

Electoral performance

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bains, Harjot Singh 21st-century Indian politicians 1990 births Living people Punjab, India MLAs 2022–2027 Aam Aadmi Party politicians from Punjab, India People from Rupnagar district Mann ministry Aam Aadmi Party candidates in the 2017 Punjab Legislative Assembly election