Balwant Singh Ramoowalia

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Sardar
Balwant Singh Ramoowalia
Member of 6th Lok Sabha
In office
1977–1979
Member of 8th Lok Sabha
In office
1984–1989
Member of Rajya Sabha
In office
1996–2002
Personal details
Born (1942-03-15) March 15, 1942
Political party Shiromani Akali Dal
Religion Sikh

Balwant Singh Ramoowalia[1] (born 15 March 1942) is an Indian politician. His father Karnail Singh Paras was a well known Kavishar. Balwant Singh started his political career with student politics as a general secretary of Student Federation of India in 1963. He went on to join All India Sikh Students' Federation and was its president from 1968-72. [2] Later he joined Akali Dal and became Member of Parliament twice from Faridkot and Sangrur. He left Akali Dal to get elected to Rajya Sabha in 1996 and served as the Union Minister for Social Welfare. He formed his own political party Lok Bhalai Party that he merged into Akali Dal in November 2011. He contested for Punjab assembly in 2012 elections from Mohalli and lost.

Position held

Ramoowalia was

  • President,(i) All India Sikh Students' Federation, 1968–72 and (ii) Punjabi Bhalai Manch
  • General Secretary, S.F.I., 1963–64
  • Propaganda Secretary, Shiromani Akali Dal, 1975–77 and 1980–82
  • Secretary General, Shiromani Akali Dal, 1985–87
  • Leader, Akali Dal Group, 8th Lok Sabha
  • Member, (i) Senate Punjabi University, Patiala, 1978–80, (ii) Syndicate, Punjabi University, Patiala since 1996, (iii) Board of Indian Airlines, 1991–93, (iv) 6th and 8th Lok Sabha, (v) Public Accounts Committee, 1987–88, (vi) Estimates Committee,1986–87, (vii) Committee on Public Undertakings,1988–89, (viii) Business Advisory Committee,1978–79, (ix) Committee on Petitions, 1978–79, (x) Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Industry, 1985–89, (xi) Consultative Committee for the Ministry of External Affairs, 1978–79 and (xii) Committee on Labour and Welfare
  • previously associated with Shiromani Akali Dal
  • Union Minister of Social Welfare,1996–98
  • elected to the Rajya Sabha in November, 1996.[3]

Other associations

References

  1. ↑ Eighty per cent of the marriages to NRI men in Punjab are doomed, as the husbands never return to take their brides,” says Balwant Singh Ramoowalia, the lone crusader for the helpless NRI wives.
  2. ↑ http://www.nriinternet.com/NRIpoliticians/INDIA/A_Z/R/Ramuwalia/BIO.htm
  3. ↑ B.S. Ramoowalia

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