Balbir Singh Sidhu | |
Birth Date: | 1 April 1959 |
Birth Place: | Tapa Mandi, Barnala, Punjab |
Parents: | S. Jang Singh and Smt. Ranjit Kaur |
Spouse: | Smt. Daljit Kaur |
Children: | 1 Son and 1 Daughter |
Party: | Bharatiya Janata Party (from June 2022 till 13 October 2023) |
Otherparty: | Indian National Congress (present) |
Office: | Cabinet Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Labour, Punjab |
1Blankname: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata: | Capt. Amarinder Singh |
Term Start: | 16 March 2018 |
Office1: | Member of Punjab Legislative Assembly |
Term Start1: | 2007 |
Term End1: | 2012 |
Predecessor1: | Bir Devinder Singh |
Successor1: | Jagmohan Singh Kang |
Constituency1: | Kharar |
Term Start2: | 2012 |
Term End2: | 10 March 2022 |
Constituency2: | S. A. S. Nagar |
Term End: | 18 September 2021 |
Successor2: | Kulwant Singh |
Balbir Singh Sidhu is the former member of Punjab Legislative Assembly and was ex Cabinet Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Labour in Punjab Government.[1] [2]
He joined the Indian National Congress in the '90s and served as Joint Secretary, Vice president, and Senior Vice president of the Punjab Youth Congress Committee. He was also appointed in charge of Congress during Lok Sabha election 1999 in Punjab.
In 2007 Punjab assembly election he won from Kharar Assembly constituency by defeating Shiromani Akali Dal candidate Jasjit Singh.[3] Again won from S. A. S. Nagar Assembly constituency in 2012 and then in 2017 elections.[4]
He joined Bhartiya Janata Party on 4 June 2022 along with Raj Kumar Verka, Gurpreet Singh Kangar, Sundar Sham Arora, and others at the party office in Chandigarh.[5]