Sushil Kumar Rinku | |
Birth Date: | May df=y |
Profession: | Politician |
Alma Mater: | DAV College, Jalandhar |
Residence: | Jalandhar |
Party: | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Otherparty: | Aam Aadmi Party, Indian National Congress |
Spouse: | Smt Sunita Rinku |
Birth Place: | Jalandhar, Punjab, India |
Constituency: | Jalandhar |
Term Start: | 13 May 2023 |
Term End: | 4 June 2024 |
Office: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
Successor1: | Sheetal Angural |
Predecessor: | Santokh Singh Chaudhary |
Successor: | Charanjit Singh Channi |
Constituency1: | Jalandhar West |
Term End1: | 2022 |
Term Start1: | 2017 |
Office1: | Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly |
Sushil Kumar Rinku (born 5 June 1975)[1] is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party[2] He was a member of parliament from the Jalandhar constituency after winning in 2023 jalandhar by-election but in 2024 he lost to Congress candidate and former Chief minister of Punjab Charanjit Singh Channi.[3] He previously belonged to the Aam Aadmi Party and Indian National Congress. In 2017, he was elected as a member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly from Jalandhar West on Indian National Congress ticket .[4]
Sushil Kumar is high school graduate and had 1.62 crores in cash or assets as per his nomination filing.[5]
Sushil Kumar Rinku, who joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) few days ahead of the Jalandhar parliamentary by-election, on May 13 won the election as an AAP candidate by defeating the rival Congress party.[6]
After resigning from membership of Aam Admi Party, he joined BJP in presence of Vinod Tawde and Sunil Jakhar on 27 March 2024.[7]
He won the Jalandhar West on an INC ticket, he beat the member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly Mahinder Pal Bhagat of the BJP by over 17,334 Votes.[8] [9] In 2023, he was by-elected to the Lok Sabha from the Jalandhar Lok Sabha constituency by a margin of 58,691 votes.[10]
|-