Raj Kumar Chabbewal

• Late Shri Darshan Singh (father)
• Smt Simro Devi (mother)

Dr.Raj Kumar Chabbewal
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 June 2024
Residence(s)	Village Manjhi, P.O. Narh, Distt. Hoshiarpur
Profession	Doctor
Website	Raj Kumar Chabbewal on Facebook

Raj Kumar Chabbewal (born 8 May 1969) is an Indian politician from Punjab. He became a member of the Parliament from Hoshiarpur Lok Sabha constituency winning the 2024 Indian general election in Punjab representing Aam Aadmi Party. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Political career

Chabbewal joined the Indian National Congress in 2009. He was first elected to the Punjab Legislative Assembly from Chabbewal in 2017. ^{[4] [5]} In 2022, he was re-elected from the same constituency. ^{[6] [7]} On 10 April 2022 he was made the deputy CLP leader of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. ^[8] 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. ^[9]

MLA

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. ^[10]

Electoral performance

2024

2024 Indian general election: Hoshiarpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AAP	Dr. Raj Kumar Chabbewal	303,859	32.04	27.51
	INC	Yamini Gomar	2,59,748	27.39	10.24
	BJP	Anita Som Parkash	1,99,994	21.09	21.43
	SAD	Sohan Singh Thandal	91,789	9.68	New
	BSP	Ranjit Kumar	48,214	5.08	7.9
	SAD(A)	Jaswant Singh Fouji	20,923	2.21	New
	NOTA	None of the above	5,552	0.59	0.71
Majority			44,111	4.65	0.24
Turnout			9,48,485
Registered electors			16,01,826
	AAP gain from BJP		Swing	27.51

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Punjab Assembly election, 2022: Chabbewal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Raj Kumar Chabbewal	47,375	41.4	8.56
	AAP	Harminder Singh Sandhu	39,729	34.7	17.00
	SAD	Sohan Singh Thandal	19,329	16.9	7.79
	BJP	Dilbag Rai	4,073	3.6	New
	NOTA	None of the above	981	0.6	0.13
Majority			7646	6.62
Turnout			1,15,506	71.2
Registered electors			161,535	[11]
	INC hold		Swing

References

1. "Members". punjabassembly.nic.in. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
2. "Chabbewal, Punjab Assembly Election Results 2022 Live Updates: Chabbewal में INC ने AAP को हराया". Aaj Tak (in Hindi). Retrieved 10 April 2022.
3. "Party changers | Shifting hues". India Today. 13 July 2024. Archived from the original on 2 March 2025. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
4. "Punjab elections result 2017: Full list of constituencies and their winners". The Indian Express. 11 March 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
5. "Preferred over bigwigs, Congress bets big on this doctor". Hindustan Times. 21 April 2019. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
6. "Chabbewal Election Result 2022 LIVE Updates: Dr. Rajkumar of INC Wins". News18. 10 March 2022. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
7. Service, Tribune News. "Constituency watch: Chabbewal". Tribuneindia News Service. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
8. "Sonia Gandhi names Rahul loyalist Warring Punjab Congress chief | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. TNN. 10 April 2022. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
9. "All Rahul's men: The new-look Punjab Congress leadership". The Indian Express. 10 April 2022. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
10. "AAP's Bhagwant Mann sworn in as Punjab Chief Minister". The Hindu. 16 March 2022. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 22 March 2022.
11. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.

External links

• Raj Kumar Chabbewal on Facebook