S S Ahluwalia
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The Hon'ble Surendrajeet Singh Ahluwalia |
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Member of the India Parliament for Darjeeling |
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Assumed office 16 May 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Jaswant Singh |
| Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare | |
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Assumed office 5 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Preceded by | Sanjeev Balyan |
| Minister of State, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (India) | |
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Assumed office 5 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Preceded by | Rajiv Pratap Rudy |
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4 July 1951 Asansol, Paschim Bardhaman district, West Bengal, India |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janta Party |
| Spouse(s) | Monica Ahluwalia |
| Children | 3 sons and 2 daughters |
| Residence | Patna & Darjeeling |
| Alma mater |
Burdwan University University of Calcutta |
| Profession | Political Social Worker |
| As of 22 May, 2014 Source: [1] |
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Surendrajeet Singh Ahluwalia (born 4 July 1951) is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and is its National Vice President. A Union Minister of State in the Government of India, he is the member of Parliament of India representing Darjeeling Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal in the 16th Lok Sabha. Previously he was a Member of Parliament representing Bihar and Jharkhand in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament, over several terms from 1986-1992, 1992-1998, 2000–2006, and 2006-2012. He was earlier a member of the Indian National Congress.
He was elected into the Parliament as an MP from Bihar, in the year 1986. Over the years of his career, he has held the posts of Minister for Urban Development, and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs in the Union Government headed by P. V. Narasimha Rao.
He was also the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, till 2012 when he lost his Rajya Sabha seat in the Jharkhand Rajya Sabha elections. He subsequently entered the Lok Sabha, winning the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections from Darjeeling. He is at present a Member of the National Executive Committee of the BJP.
Ahluwalia is a lawyer by education.
Ahluwalia was a Member of Parliament from Rajya Sabha representing Bihar and Jharkhand in 1986-1992, 1992-1998, 2000–2006, and 2006-2012. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Darjeeling Parliamentary Constituency of West Bengal with active support of a local unrecognized party Gorkha Janmukti Morcha in May 2014.
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