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Devender Singh Shokeen is a former Indian bureaucrat and Indian politician who is a Senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Delhi. His Father Ch. Sultan Singh was a senior Bureaucrat in Delhi. He was elected to Delhi Legislative Assembly from Nangloi Jat in 1993 and served as a Minister Of Transport and Development Government of Delhi in 1998. [1]

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