| Surendrajeet Singh Ahluwalia | |
| Signature: | S.S.Aluwalia Signature.png.jpg |
| Office2: | Minister of State, Government of India |
| 1Blankname2: | MoS of |
| 1Namedata2: | Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology |
| Minister2: | Ravi Shankar Prasad |
| Successor2: | Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre |
| Term Start2: | 16 May 2018 |
| Term End2: | 24 May 2019 |
| Primeminister2: | Narendra Modi |
| 1Blankname3: | MoS of |
| 1Namedata3: | Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation |
| Term Start3: | 3 September 2017 |
| Term End3: | 16 May 2018 |
| Primeminister3: | Narendra Modi |
| 1Blankname4: | MoS of |
| 1Namedata4: | Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare[1] |
| Primeminister4: | Narendra Modi |
| Minister4: | Radha Mohan Singh |
| Term Start4: | 5 July 2016 |
| Term End4: | 3 September 2017 |
| 1Blankname5: | MoS of |
| 1Namedata5: | Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs |
| Primeminister5: | Narendra Modi |
| Minister5: | Ananth Kumar |
| Term Start5: | 5 July 2016 |
| Term End5: | 3 September 2017 |
| Successor5: | Vijay Goel |
| Term Start6: | 1995 |
| Term End6: | 1996 |
| Primeminister6: | P. V. Narasimha Rao |
| 1Blankname6: | MoS of |
| 1Namedata6: | Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment (Department of Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation) |
| Term Start7: | 1995 |
| Term End7: | 1996 |
| Primeminister7: | P. V. Narasimha Rao |
| 1Blankname7: | MoS of |
| 1Namedata7: | Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs |
| Minister7: | Vidya Charan Shukla |
| Office: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
| Constituency: | Bardhaman–Durgapur |
| Term Start: | 23 May 2019 |
| Term End: | 4 June 2024 |
| Predecessor: | Mamtaz Sanghamita |
| Successor: | Kirti Azad |
| Constituency1: | Darjeeling |
| Term Start1: | 16 May 2014 |
| Term End1: | 23 May 2019 |
| Predecessor1: | Jaswant Singh |
| Successor1: | Raju Bista |
| Office8: | Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Rajya Sabha |
| Term Start8: | 2 June 2010 |
| Term End8: | May 2012 |
| Leader8: | Arun Jaitley |
| Primeminister8: | Manmohan Singh |
| Office9: | Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha |
| Term Start10: | 7 July 1986 |
| Term End10: | 7 July 1998 |
| Constituency10: | Bihar |
| Term Start9: | 3 April 2000 |
| Term End9: | 2 April 2012 |
| Constituency9: | Jharkhand |
| Birth Date: | 4 July 1951 |
| Birth Place: | Asansol, West Bengal, India |
| Residence: | Patna and Darjeeling[2] |
| Party: | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Otherparty: | Indian National Congress |
| Children: | 5 |
| Alma Mater: | Burdwan University University of Calcutta[3] |
| Profession: | Political Social Worker |
| Date: | 22 May |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Source: | https://web.archive.org/web/20161009064851/http://www.loksabha.nic.in/Members/MemberBioprofile.aspx?mpsno=4793 |
Surendrajeet Singh Ahluwalia (born 4 July 1951) is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and a senior Member of Parliament in his 32nd year as a Parliamentarian.
A former Union Minister of State in the Government of India, he is the member of Parliament of India representing Bardhaman-Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal in the 17th Lok Sabha (2019-2024). He represented Darjeeling, West Bengal in the 16th Lok Sabha, having been elected as its MP in the 2014 General Elections. Prior to entering the Lok Sabha in 2014, he was a Member of Parliament representing Bihar and Jharkhand in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament over several terms, 1986–1992, 1992–1998 (as a member of Congress), and with BJP in 2000–2006, and 2006–2012.
During his term in the Rajya Sabha, he was Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha till 2012, and Chief Whip prior to that. After being elected into Lok Sabha in 2014, he has held various portfolios as Minister of State from 2016 to GE 2019.
Ahluwalia is a lawyer by education. having graduated from Calcutta University.
Ahluwalia was a Member of Parliament from Rajya Sabha representing Bihar and Jharkhand in 1986-1992, 1992-1998, 2000–2006, and 2006-2012. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Darjeeling Parliamentary Constituency of West Bengal with active support of a local unrecognized party Gorkha Janmukti Morcha in May 2014.[4]
He was first elected to the Rajya Sabha from Bihar in 1986 as a member of the Indian National Congress, and in the early years of his career, held the posts of Minister for Urban Development, and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs in the Union Government headed by P. V. Narasimha Rao. He subsequently joined BJP in 1999, where he has been since.
He served as Minister of State for Urban Affairs and Employment (Department of Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation) and Parliamentary Affairs in P V Narasimha Rao Cabinet from 15 September 1995 to 16 May 1996. He was Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha from June 2010 to May 2012. He was inducted into the Union Council of Ministers as a Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Parliamentary Affairs on 5 July 2016.[5] [6] [7]
Web site: Positions held.
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