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Bikram Singh Majithia (MLA-Majitha)
Punjab Assembly elections Indian politician Bikram Singh Majithia is a member of Shiromani Akali Dal and former cabinet minister in the Punjab Government. Majitha MLA Bikram Singh Majithia was born in March He won the Punjab Vidhan Sabha elections from the Majitha constituency and again in and He belongs to Shiromani Akali Dal. He is the younger brother of Bathinda MP, Harsimrat Kaur Badal and brother-in-law of former Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab, Sukhbir Singh Badal. He first won the Punjab Vidhan Sabha elections from the Majitha constituency in He remained the Cabinet Minister for vatten Supply and Sanitation, Information and Public Relations, Science, Technology, Environment, Revenue, Public Relations, NRI Affairs and Non-Conventional Energy. While serving as the President of the Youth Akali Dal, he ensured the maximum participation of ungdom in bringing a positive change in the politics by attaching it with social activities like
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The Sunday Profile: Panth meets Wealth
Read | Majithia: Riding on power, fighting against perception
Scion of one of the most powerful families of Punjab, that traces its lineage to a general in Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s army, Majithia joined politics in when he fought and won his maiden Assembly election from Majitha. His elder sister Harsimrat Badal (brother-in-law Sukhbir Badal was then an MP from Faridkot) went door to door to canvass for him.
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Shortly afterwards, the year-old, who has a degree in business management from Delhi St Stephen’s College, was installed as a Cabinet minister in the Parkash Singh Badal government, arguably the youngest member in an Akali-BJP ministry dominated by veterans.
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Majithia, once Badal’s youngest minister now his most controversial
“He is strapping, suave and sophisticated. Coming from one of the most illustrious Sikh families, he is an alumnus of The Lawrence School, Sanawar, and St Stephen’s College, Delhi. He was handling the corporate side of his family-owned Saraya Group of industries and had a passion for flying, car rallying and basketball. That was before he plunged into Punjab politics.”
Much has changed in the man whose introduction was thus scripted by Punjab’s deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on his website when his brother-in-law, Bikram Singh Majithia, became a first-time legislator in He had then hogged the limelight as the youngest minister (31) in the first tenure () of the Parkash Singh Badal government. He continues to do that – but as one in the eye of recurring political storms.
Truth be told, Majithia has become a lightning rod for controversies and criticism, much to the discomfiture of his own party.