Rajeev Bindal

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Rajeev Bindal
President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Himachal Pradesh
Assumed office
23 April 2023

Rajeev Bindal (born 12 January 1955) is the President of Himachal Pradesh BJP. He is five term member of the HP legislative assembly and has been the speaker of Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. He is member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Bindal was a minister of health and family welfare in Government of Himachal Pradesh, India. [1]

Bindal is the son of the late Vaid Balmukund Bindal; born on 12 January 1955 at Solan. He has been a five term MLA, last two times from Nahan. He represented Solan constituency in Vidhan Sabha three times consecutively from 2000 - 2012. He was cabinet minister for health and family welfare in Himachal Pradesh Government from 2007 to 2012. He was unanimously elected as speaker of HP legislative assembly on January 10, 2018 at the inaugural session of 13th Vidhan Sabha in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh.

He is a doctor by profession. Bindal started social service right from his college days. After graduation, he went to tribal areas of Bihar to serve as a doctor for three years. He established Himgiri Kalyan Ashram at Solan, a charitable institution where poor children are provided boarding and education free of cost.

Bindal has held the office of Chairperson of Municipal Committee of Solan from 1995 to 2000. He was elected MLA in 2000 and became the Chairman of HP State Pollution Control Board. He was re-elected as MLA in 2003 and 2007 from Solan. He joined the state cabinet as Minister for Health & Family Welfare from 2007 - 2012. After the Solan constituency got reserved, he contested elections from Nahan in Sirmaur district and got elected consecutively two times. He became the Speaker of Himachal Pradesh legislative assembly, and occupied the constitutional post on January 10, 2018. He was the Health Minister in 2017 to 2019.

He spent two years as Speaker, and then moved to organisation by becoming the state president of BJP in January 2020.

He has been again appointed as President of Himachal Pradesh BJP in April 2023.

He is a great politician and has great problem solving ability..He has done various good works for the town of Nahan and its people. In the 2010s the people of Nahan were facing a water crisis. People have to spend money on water tankers to meet their water needs. But after Dr. Rajeev Bindal came into power he solved this problem by installing big water pipes that come all the way from the area of Jamta.

Dr. Rajeev Bindal also repaired the roads of the township of Nahan and the small villages in the outskirts of Nahan.

Rajeev Bindal has been appointed president of Himachal Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on 23 April 2023. [2] [3]

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  1. ↑ "108 ambulance service big hit in HP: Bindal". www.business-standard.com. 14 December 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  2. ↑ "Rajeev Bindal appointed Himachal BJP chief". The Times of India. 23 April 2023. Archived from the original on 25 March 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
  3. ↑ "Rajiv Bindal is new Himachal BJP chief". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 25 April 2023. Retrieved 25 March 2024.


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