Kultar Singh Sandhwan

Kultar Singh Sandhwan
Kultar Singh Sandhwan
ਕੁਲਤਾਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੰਧਵਾਂ
	Kultar Singh Sandhwan in 2022
18th Speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 21 March 2022
Preceded by	Rana K. P. Singh
Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 16 March 2017
Constituency	Kotkapura
Personal details
Born	16 April 1975 (age 47); Kotkapura, Punjab, India
Political party	Aam Aadmi Party
Residence	Kotkapura
Occupation	Politician

Kultar Singh Sandhwan (Punjabi: ਕੁਲਤਾਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੰਧਵਾਂ) is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the 18th and current Speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly from 21 March 2022. He is also MLA representing the Kotkapura Assembly constituency. He is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party.^[1]^[2]^[3] He is the current speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly.^[4]

Member of Legislative Assembly[]

First term (2017-2022)[]

Committee assignments of 15th Punjab Legislative Assembly

Chairman;Public Accounts Committee

Member (2017-2019) Library Committee^[5]^[6]
Member Committee on Subordinate Legislation
Member (2021-2022) Committee on Papers laid/to be laid on the table and Library^[7]

Second term (2022-present)[]

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.^[8]

He was elected as the speaker of the 16th Punjab Assembly.

Electoral performance[]

Kultar Singh Sandhwan in 2022

Punjab Assembly election, 2017: Kotkapura^[9]
Party		Candidate	%
	AAP	Kultar Singh Sandhwan
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors			^[10]

Punjab Assembly election, 2022:
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AAP	Kultar Singh Sandhwan^[11]	54,009	43.81
	INC	Ajaypal Singh Sandhu	32879	26.67
	SAD	Mantar Singh Brar
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority			21130	17.14
Turnout			123267	76.93
Registered electors				^[12]
	AAP hold

References[]

^ "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. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
^ "The playing 11: CM Bhagwant Mann's cabinet ministers". The Indian Express. 20 March 2022. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
^ "Punjab election 2022 result constituency-wise: Check full list of winners". Hindustan Times. 10 March 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
^ The Economic Times (12 May 2022). "AAP MLA Kultar Sandhwan becomes Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker". Archived from the original on 12 May 2022. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
^ "vidhanSabha". web.archive.org. 20 August 2018. Archived from the original on 20 August 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
^ "vidhanSabha". web.archive.org. 13 December 2017. Archived from the original on 13 December 2017. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
^ "vidhanSabha". web.archive.org. 2 March 2022. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
^ "AAP's Bhagwant Mann sworn in as Punjab Chief Minister". The Hindu. 16 March 2022. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
^ Election Commission of India. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2017". Retrieved 26 June 2021.
^ Chief Electoral Officer - Punjab. "Electors and Polling Stations - VS 2017" (PDF). Retrieved 24 June 2021.
^ "Punjab Elections 2022: Full list of Aam Aadmi Party candidates and their constituencies". The Financial Express. 21 January 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
^ "Punjab General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.

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Preceded by -	Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly from Kotkapura Assembly constituency 2017 –	Incumbent

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[List_Financialexpress-1] "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. Retrieved 10 March 2022.

[Playing_20_March_2022-2] "The playing 11: CM Bhagwant Mann's cabinet ministers". The Indian Express. 20 March 2022. Retrieved 22 March 2022.

[3] "Punjab election 2022 result constituency-wise: Check full list of winners". Hindustan Times. 10 March 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022.

[AAP_MLA_Kultar_Sandhwan_becomes_Punjab_Vidhan_Sabha_Speaker-4] The Economic Times (12 May 2022). "AAP MLA Kultar Sandhwan becomes Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker". Archived from the original on 12 May 2022. Retrieved 12 May 2022.

[5] "vidhanSabha". web.archive.org. 20 August 2018. Archived from the original on 20 August 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2022.

[6] "vidhanSabha". web.archive.org. 13 December 2017. Archived from the original on 13 December 2017. Retrieved 24 July 2022.

[7] "vidhanSabha". web.archive.org. 2 March 2022. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 24 July 2022.

[8] "AAP's Bhagwant Mann sworn in as Punjab Chief Minister". The Hindu. 16 March 2022. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 22 March 2022.

[election2017-9] Election Commission of India. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2017". Retrieved 26 June 2021.

[electors2017-10] Chief Electoral Officer - Punjab. "Electors and Polling Stations - VS 2017" (PDF). Retrieved 24 June 2021.

[2022_Punjab_AAP_candidates-11] "Punjab Elections 2022: Full list of Aam Aadmi Party candidates and their constituencies". The Financial Express. 21 January 2022. Retrieved 23 January 2022.

[Punjab_Election_2022-12] "Punjab General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.

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National posts	Convener: Arvind Kejriwal Secretary: Pankaj Gupta Treasurer: Narain Dass Gupta Joint General Secretary: Ishudan Gadhvi
Political Affairs Committee	Arvind Kejriwal Manish Sisodia Sanjay Singh Gopal Rai Atishi Durgesh Pathak Imran Hussain Raghav Chadha Rakhi Bidlan
National Executive Committee	Arvind Kejriwal Manish Sisodia Bhagwant Mann Sanjay Singh Raghav Chadha Narain Dass Gupta Sushil Gupta Ishudan Gadhvi Gopal Rai Satyendra Kumar Jain Imran Hussain Rajendra Pal Gautam Rakhi Birla Harpal Singh Cheema Atishi Dilip Pandey Dinesh Mohaniya Aman Arora Saravjit Kaur Manuke Prof. Baljinder Kaur Venzy Viegas Preeti Sharma Menon and others
Spokespersons	Saurabh Bhardwaj (Chief Spokesperson) Sanjay Singh Pankaj Gupta Dilip Pandey Bhagwant Mann Preeti Sharma Menon Prithvi Reddy Nishikant Mohapatra Raghav Chadha Anjali Rai
State wings	Delhi Gujarat Goa Himachal Pradesh Haryana Jammu and Kashmir Madhya Pradesh Punjab Uttarakhand Uttar Pradesh
Current chief ministers	Arvind Kejriwal Bhagwant Mann
Current members of Parliament	Lok Sabha Rajya Sabha
Current MLAs	Delhi Punjab Goa
Political wings	Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti