Surender Pal Singh is an Indian politician and member of the

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from Rajasthan. He was a member of the

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from the Karanpur constituency in

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern si ...

from 2003 till 2008 and again from 2013 to 2018. He was Chairman Of Rajasthan Warehousing with Cabinet Rank in 1994. He also served as Minister of Agriculture (2003-2008) and Minister of Mines and Petroleum (2013-2018). He lost his seat in the

2018 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election The Indian National Congress became the single largest party with 100 seats, short of majority by 1 seat. The Bharatiya Janata Party won 73 seats, much lower compared to the previous election in which it won an absolute majority of 163 seats. The ...

to Gurmeet Singh Kooner of the

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by a margin of 28,376 votes. In 2023 he was the BJP candidate for Karanpur Constituency (whose election were postponed due to the sudden death of INC candidate and incumbent Gurmeet Singh Kooner just a few days before polls) and the fresh elections for the constituency were conducted on 5th of January 2024 and results were declared on 8th of January 2024.He resigned as the minister immediately after losing the election. Despite this Singh had taken Oath as

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(Independent Charge) on 30 December 2023, just a week before the by-elections (5 January 2024) in Karanpur Assembly Constituency. However, in a recent turn of events, Congress’s Rupinder Singh Kooner emerged victorious in the bypoll, defeating BJP’s Surenderpal Singh by a margin of 11,284 votes with a total of 94,950 votes. On December 31, State Congress unit had wrote to the

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, complaining that the appointment is in total violation of the model code of conduct and asked for singh's disqualification from contesting the bye-election slated for Jan 5.https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/disqualify-bjp-nominee-for-karanpur-cong-to-ec/amp_articleshow/106430143.cms

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