Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal
Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal in 2022
Cabinet Minister, Government of Punjab
Assumed office
21 March 2022
GovernorBanwarilal Purohit
CabinetMann ministry
Chief MinisterBhagwant Mann
Ministry and DepartmentsRural Development & Panchayats Minister
Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare
NRI Affairs [1]
Preceded byManpreet Singh Badal
Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly[2]
Assumed office
10 March 2022
ConstituencyAjnala
Preceded byHarpartap Singh
Personal details
BornPunjab, India

Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal is an Indian politician and the MLA representing the Ajnala Assembly constituency also Cabinet Minister in Punjab Government led by CM Bhagwant Mann. He is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party.[3][4][5]

Member of Legislative Assembly

Dhaliwal was elected as the MLA in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. He represented the Ajnala Assembly constituency in the Punjab Legislative Assembly. He took oath as a cabinet minister along with nine other MLAs on 19 March at Guru Nanak Dev auditorium of Punjab Raj Bhavan in Chandigarh.[6][7] Eight ministers including Dhaliwal who took oath were greenhorn (first term) MLAs.[8] The Aam Aadmi Party gained a strong 79% majority in the sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly by winning 92 out of 117 seats in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. MP Bhagwant Mann was sworn in as Chief Minister on 16 March 2022.[9]

As a cabinet minister in the Mann ministry, Dhaliwal was given the charge of three departments of the Punjab Government:[10]

  1. Department of Rural Development & Panchayats
  2. Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare
  3. Department of NRI Affairs


Electoral performance

This section is transcluded from Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency. (edit | history)
2019 Indian general elections: Amritsar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Gurjeet Singh Aujla 445,032 51.78 Increase1.69
BJP Hardeep Singh Puri 3,45,406 40.19 Increase9.74
AAP Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal 20,087 2.34 Decrease12.44
CPI Daswinder Kaur 16,335 1.90 Increase0.14
NOTA None of the Above 8,763 1.02 Increase0.06
Majority 99,626 11.59
Turnout 8,60,582 57.07 Decrease13.32
INC hold Swing

This section is transcluded from Ajnala Assembly constituency. (edit | history)
Punjab Assembly election, 2022: Ajnala
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AAP Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal 43,555 35.69
SAD Amarpal Singh Ajnala 35,712 29.26
INC Harpratap Singh Ajnala[11] 33,853 27.74
SAD(A) Amrik Singh 2,185 1.79 Increase1.48
NOTA None of the above 824 0.68
Majority 7,843 6.43
Turnout 122,038 76.9
Registered electors 158,691 [12]
AAP gain from INC Swing

References

  1. ^ "Mann keeps Home, 26 others, gives Finance to Cheema; Mines to Bains". 22 March 2022. Archived from the original on 23 March 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  2. ^ Members detail punjabassembly.nic.in
  3. ^ "The playing 11: CM Bhagwant Mann's cabinet ministers". The Indian Express. 20 March 2022. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Punjab election 2022, Punjab election results 2022, Punjab election winners list, Punjab election 2022 full list of winners, Punjab election winning candidates, Punjab election 2022 winners, Punjab election 2022 winning candidates constituency wise". Financialexpress. Archived from the original on 10 March 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Punjab election 2022 result constituency-wise: Check full list of winners". Hindustan Times. 10 March 2022. Archived from the original on 10 March 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Ten Punjab ministers to take oath on Saturday". Tribuneindia News Service. 18 March 2022. Archived from the original on 18 March 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  7. ^ "25,000 Government Jobs For Punjab: New Chief Minister's 1st Decision". NDTV.com. Press Trust of India. 19 March 2022. Archived from the original on 19 March 2022. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  8. ^ "In Mann's first list of Cabinet ministers, 8 greenhorn MLAs". The Indian Express. 19 March 2022. Archived from the original on 19 March 2022. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  9. ^ "AAP's Bhagwant Mann sworn in as Punjab Chief Minister". The Hindu. 16 March 2022. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  10. ^ "Punjab portfolios announced; CM Mann keeps Home and Vigilance, Cheema gets Finance, Singla Health, Harbhajan Power". Tribuneindia News Service. 21 March 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  11. ^ "Punjab Elections 2022: Full list of Congress Candidates and their Constituencies". FE Online. No. The Financial Express (India). The Indian Express Group. 18 February 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  12. ^ "Punjab General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
Political offices Preceded byTripat Rajinder Singh Bajwa Punjab Cabinet minister for Animal Husbandry, Fisheries & Dairy Development March–May 2022 Succeeded byLaljit Singh Bhullar Preceded byBrahm Mohindra Punjab Cabinet minister for Minister of Rural Development & Panchayats 2022–present Incumbent Preceded byPargat Singh Punjab Cabinet minister for NRI Affairs 2022–present Incumbent Preceded byBhagwant Mann Punjab Cabinet minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare 2022–present Incumbent State Legislative Assembly Preceded byHarpartap Singh Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly from Ajnala Assembly constituency 2022 – Incumbent Political offices
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