Baljinder Kaur (Punjab politician)

Baljinder Kaur is an Indian politician. She is a member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly.

Baljinder Kaur
Member of Punjab Legislative Assembly[1]
Assumed office
2017[2]
Preceded byJeetmohinder Singh Sidhu
ConstituencyTalwandi Sabo
Personal details
Born (1986-09-14) 14 September 1986
Talwandi Sabo, Punjab
Political partyAam Aadmi Party
Spouse(s)Sukhraj Singh
ParentsDarshan Singh and Ranjit Kaur

Personal life

Kaur did her M. Phil from Punjabi University, Patiala in 2009. Before joining politics she was a professor of English at Mata Gujri College at Fatehgarh Sahib.[3] She married Sukhraj Singh in February 2019; he is also a politician from Aam Aadmi Party.[4] She has one daughter

Political career

In 2011 Kaur joined the Indian anti-corruption movement and in 2012 joined Aam Aadmi Party. The first time she contested bypoll election from Talwandi Sabo Assembly Constituency in 2014 but lost the election.[5] However, in the 2017 election she defeated Jeetmohinder Singh of Shiromani Akali Dal with a margin of 19,293 votes.

In the 2019 Indian general election in Punjab she was declared the candidate from Bathinda (Lok Sabha constituency) by the party.[6] However she lost the election and stood at third place.

References
  1. "punjabassembly member". punjabassembly.nic.in. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  2. "Baljinder Kaur won from talwandi sabo". Retrieved 12 April 2019 – via www.india.com.
  3. aamaadmiparty.org
  4. "AAP MLA Baljinder Kaur engaged to Party youth wing leader".
  5. "Jeetmohinder Singh Sidhu wins talwandi sabo bypoll election".
  6. "AAP names talwandi sabo MLA Baljinder Kaur as its Bathinda candidate".
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