Dr.Raj Kumar Chabbewal | |
Party: | Aam Aadmi Party |
Otherparty: | Indian National Congress |
Residence: | Village Manjhi, P.O. Narh, Distt. Hoshiarpur |
Profession: | Doctor |
Mother: | Smt Simro Devi |
Father: | Late Shri Darshan Singh |
Children: | 2 |
Term Start2: | 11 Mar 2017 |
Term End2: | 15 March 2024 |
Birth Date: | 8 May 1969 |
Office1: | Deputy Leader of the Opposition of Punjab Legislative Assembly |
Leader1: | Partap Singh Bajwa |
Predecessor1: | Saravjit Kaur Manuke |
Term Start1: | 10 April 2022 |
Term End1: | 15 March 2024 |
Office: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
Term Start: | 4 June 2024 |
Constituency: | Hoshiarpur |
Constituency2: | Chabbewal |
Office2: | Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly |
Predecessor2: | Dr. Raj Kumar |
Office3: | Chairperson, Congress’s Scheduled Caste (SC) Department, Punjab |
Term Start3: | 2015 |
Term End3: | 2024 |
Birth Place: | Punjab, India |
Spouse: | Dr. Harbans Kaur |
Dr. Raj Kumar Chabbewal is an Indian politician and member of Aam Aadmi Party.[1] He is currently serving as a Member of the Parliament from Hoshiarpur Constituency (Lok Sabha).[2]
Chabbewal joined the Indian National Congress in 2009. He was first elected to the Punjab Legislative Assembly from Chabbewal in 2017.[3] [4] In 2022, he was re-elected from the same constituency.[5] [6] On 10 April 2022 he was made the deputy CLP leader of the Punjab Legislative Assembly.[7] Chabbewal was appointed the Chairperson of Congress's Scheduled Caste (SC) Department, Punjab in 2015. He is also a member of All India Congress Committee.[8]
He was elected as MLA in 2022. 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.[9]