Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal | |
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Cabinet Minister, Government of Punjab | |
Assumed office 21 March 2022 | |
Governor | Banwarilal Purohit |
Cabinet | Mann ministry |
Chief Minister | Bhagwant Mann |
Ministry and Departments | Rural Development & Panchayats Minister Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare NRI Affairs [1] |
Preceded by | Manpreet Singh Badal |
Constituency | Ajnala |
Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly [2] | |
Assumed office 10 March 2022 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Punjab,India |
Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal is an Indian politician and the MLA representing the Ajnala Assembly constituency also Cabinet Minister in Punjab Government led by CM Bhagwant Mann. He is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party. [3] [4] [5]
Dhaliwal was elected as the MLA in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. He represented the Ajnala Assembly constituency in the Punjab Legislative Assembly. He took oath as a cabinet minister along with nine other MLAs on 19 March at Guru Nanak Dev auditorium of Punjab Raj Bhavan in Chandigarh. [6] [7] Eight ministers including Dhaliwal who took oath were greenhorn (first term) MLAs. [8] 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]
As a cabinet minister in the Mann ministry,Dhaliwal was given the charge of three departments of the Punjab Government: [10]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | Gurjeet Singh Aujla | 445,032 | 51.78 | 1.69 | |
BJP | Hardeep Singh Puri | 3,45,406 | 40.19 | 9.74 | |
AAP | Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal | 20,087 | 2.34 | 12.44 | |
CPI | Daswinder Kaur | 16,335 | 1.90 | 0.14 | |
NOTA | None of the Above | 8,763 | 1.02 | 0.06 | |
Majority | 99,626 | 11.59 | |||
Turnout | 8,60,582 | 57.07 | 13.32 | ||
INC hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AAP | Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal | 43,555 | 35.69 | ||
SAD | Amarpal Singh Ajnala | 35,712 | 29.26 | ||
INC | Harpratap Singh Ajnala [11] | 33,853 | 27.74 | ||
SAD(A) | Amrik Singh | 2,185 | 1.79 | 1.48 | |
NOTA | None of the above | 824 | 0.68 | ||
Majority | 7,843 | 6.43 | |||
Turnout | 122,038 | 76.9 | |||
Registered electors | 158,691 | [12] | |||
AAP gain from INC | Swing |
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