Rana Gurjeet Singh

Rana Gurjeet Singh (born 19 April 1952) is current MLA and current Cabinet Minister of Punjab in from Kapurthala Assembly Constituency. He represented the Jalandhar Lok Sabha constituency of Punjab from 2004 to 2009 and is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party. Rana Gurjeet Singh migrated to Punjab in the year 1986 and set up a kraft-based paper mill in dist. Ropar. He later went on the set up a sugar mill in Buttar Sivia village of Amritsar district and various other industries.

He has built a political career for himself when he won his first M.L.A. election in Kapurthala, Punjab. He has since been elected as a M.P. from Jalandhar and has won the Kapurthala MLA seat numerous times. He represents the constituency of Kapurthala today as an MLA and is an ex-Minister in the .

On 25 December 2016, a criminal complaint against Singh was filed for an alleged assault against Kulwinder Singh Babbal, Bholath assembly constituency in the Punjab Legislative Assembly election. However, Ranjit Singh Rana went to become INC candidate from Bholath.^[1] Later, Rana Gurjeet Singh claimed on 29 December that the complaint was filed on behalf of a Shiromani Akali Dal leader.Accused of pocketing sand mine contracts worth crores on his staff's names, Punjab Power & Irrigation Minister Rana Gurjit Singh has finally resigned in January 2018

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• Members of Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Parliament of India website