Sewa Singh Sekhwan ( Punjabi:ਸੇਵਾ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੇਖਵਾਂ) (10 April 1950 – 6 October 2021) was an Indian Politician and a member of Aam Aadami Party. He was one of the founding members of Shiromani Akali Dal (Taksali). He was the Education minister of

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under the ten-year government of

Shiromani Akali Dal The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) (translation: ''Supreme Akali Party'') is a centre-right sikh-centric state political party in Punjab, India. The party is the second-oldest in India, after Congress, being founded in 1920. Although there are man ...

. He was sworn in as a cabinet minister for the second time on 26 October 2009. Sekhwan's father Ujagar Singh Sekhwan was MLA from Kahnuwan in 1977 and 1980. He was founder of a group supporting Indian minorities and

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s front. He remained the president of Akali Dal during the

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. Sekhwan worked as a teacher for 14 years before entering politics after his father's death in 1990. Punjab chief minister

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, then SAD president encouraged him to follow his father and supported him to run for Kahnuwan assembly in

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. He was elected MLA in 1997 from Kahnuwan. He was made

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, Rehabilitation and

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, Minister in the Badal government. Sekhwan was a member of

SGPC The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee ( SGPC; "Supreme Gurdwara Management Committee") is an organization in India responsible for the management of Gurdwaras, Sikh places of worship in states of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh and the unio ...

, the supreme Sikh body. Sekhwan also remained Technical Education Minister. He had quit

and formed the Shiromani Akali Dal (Taksali) party with other politicians who quit

such as

Ranjit Singh Brahmpura Ranjit Singh Brahmpura (8 November 1937 – 13 December 2022) was an Indian politician who was a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha for Khadoor Sahib constituency, he won the 2014 Indian general election being a Shiromani Akali Dal candidate. He ...

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, Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and Harsukhinder Singh Bubby Badal. Sekhwan joined the Aam Aadmi Party in August 2021. Sekhwan died on 6 October 2021 at the age of 71 due to liver infection.

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1950 births 2021 deaths Punjab, India MLAs 2007–2012 Education Ministers of India Education Ministers of Punjab, India Shiromani Akali Dal (Taksali) politicians Aam Aadmi Party politicians from Punjab, India Former members of Shiromani Akali Dal People from Gurdaspur {{PunjabIN-SAD-politician-stub