Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi (born 9 January 1954) is an Indian Politician and a

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Leader in

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and a former International Shooter. Sodhi was earlier in Congress Party and has been a Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly (MLA) from the

Guru Har Sahai Guru Har Sahai is a city and a municipal council in Ferozepur district in the Indian state of Punjab. Nearby cities are Ferozepur (40 km northeast), Sri Muktsar Sahib (30 km south), Fazilka (65 km southwest), Bathinda (84 km southeast) and Dab ...

Firozpur Firozpur, also known as Ferozepur, is a city on the banks of the Sutlej River in Firozpur District, Punjab, India. After the partition of India in 1947, it became a border town on the India–Pakistan border with memorials to soldiers who di ...

district of

since 2002.

Political career

He became a member of the Youth Congress in 1976. He had been elected to the Punjab Vidhan Sabha in 2002, 2007, 2012 and 2017 consecutively. Prior to this, he also functioned as Chief Whip of the Congress Legislative Party. In April 2018, he was inducted into the Punjab Cabinet as a Cabinet Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs. Before the

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 ...

, Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi resigned from the Congress Party and joined the BJP in December, 2021. Sodhi was the Sports Minister in the former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh's Cabinet, but was excluded from new chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s ministry.

Double compensation case

He is named in the double compensation scams related to land acquired by the government. An inter-departmental committee under the Chief Secretary had in 2020 indicted the minister for taking double compensation for land acquired at Mohan Ke Uttar village in Ferozepur during the previous SAD-BJP government in July 2014. A case for recovery of rupees 1.83 crores is pending in the Supreme Court of India. Cases of double compensation scams related to land acquired by the Government of India (of Rupees 1.83 crores) are pending against him in the Supreme Court of India.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sodhi, Rana Gurmit Singh 1954 births Punjab, India politicians Living people Punjab, India MLAs 2002–2007 Punjab, India MLAs 2007–2012 Punjab, India MLAs 2012–2017 Punjab, India MLAs 2017–2022 Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Punjab