Raninder Singh | |
|---|---|
| President of the National Rifle Association of India | |
| Assumed office December 2009 | |
| Vice President of the International Shooting Sports Federation | |
| Assumed office November 2018 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 August 1967 Patiala, Punjab, India |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Other political affiliations | Punjab Lok Congress Indian National Congress |
| Spouse | Rishma Kaur (m. 1995) |
| Children | 3 |
| Parents |
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| Residence | Patiala |
| Yuvraj (Crown Prince) of Patiala | |
| Tenure | 17 June 1974 – present |
| Predecessor | Amarinder Singh |
| Heir apparent | Yadauindra Singh II |
| Monarch | Maharaja Amarinder Singh |
| Dynasty | Phulkian |
Raninder Singh (born 2 August 1967) is an Indian politician from Punjab, India, and son of the former Chief Minister of Punjab Amarinder Singh.[1] He is the titular heir to the Phulkian royal dynasty of Patiala.
He belongs to royal house of Patiala belonging to the Phulkian dynasty, and son of Amarinder Singh and Preneet Kaur. He has a sister Jai Inder Kaur. He attended Yadavindra Public School, Patiala and subsequently studied at The Doon School, Dehradun. Thereafter he graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and afterward completed a master of business administration degree from Buckingham University, UK in 1990.[2]
He started his political career in late 1990s, by assisting during the election campaigns of his father and mother Preneet Kaur, an Indian National Congress MP from the Patiala Lok Sabha constituency, three times, 1999, 2004 and 2009.[3]
Subsequently joined the Youth Congress division of party himself. In 2005, he was appointed General Secretary of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee(PCC) in 2005 and made in-charge of the Bathinda district. In the coming years, he worked in the region, and as a result he was credited for Congress winning the maximum seats in the Malwa region, in the State Assembly elections in India, 2007, while the party faced a rout in Majha and Doaba regions of Punjab.[2][4]
He unsuccessfully contested Lok Sabha elections against Harsimrat Kaur Badal, the wife of Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal in 2009 general elections, from Bathinda, in a high-profile run up to the elections.[4][5]
He lost 2012 Punjab Assembly elections in 2012 from Samana constituency.[6]
He was appointed as the President of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) in December 2009. He won from his nearest rival Shyam Singh Yadav by a landslide majority. He has been an accomplished international level trap shooter himself.[7][8]
He was elected as Vice President of International Shooting Sports Federation in November 2018.
He married Rishma Kaur (née Dhingra), daughter of Kuldip Singh Dhingra and Meeta Dhingra of Berger Paints India Limited in 1995, and the couple have one son, Yadauinder Singh (b. 2003), and two daughters namely Seherinder Kaur (b.1996) and Inayatinder Kaur (b.1999).[9]