Satya Pal Jain
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Satya Pal Jain
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| Additional Solicitor General of India | |
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Assumed office 8 April 2015 |
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| Part-time Member, Law Commission of India | |
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Assumed office 10 June 2016 |
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| Member, National Executive Committee, BJP | |
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Assumed office 2000 |
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| Chairman, National Committee for Legal Affairs & Election Commission Issues, BJP | |
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In office 19 July 2013 – 2015 |
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| Chairman, National Legal Working Group, BJP | |
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In office 20 May 2013 – 2015 |
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| All India Incharge, Legal & Legislative Cell, BJP | |
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In office 2003–2007 |
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| Incharge (Prabhari), BJP Himachal Pradesh | |
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In office 2007–2010 |
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| Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) | |
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In office 1998–1999 |
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| Constituency | Chandigarh |
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In office 1996–1999 |
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| Constituency | Chandigarh |
| Personal details | |
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15 June 1952 Kharar, Punjab |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | BJP |
| Spouse(s) | Shashi Bala Jain |
| Children | Dheeraj Jain |
| Residence | Chandigarh |
| Profession | Senior Advocate |
| Religion | Jainism |
| Website | Website |
Satya Pal Jain is the Additional Solicitor General of India & Member of the Law Commission of India. He is a Member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Executive Committee. He was elected Member of Parliament from Chandigarh in 1996 (11th Lok Sabha) and 1998 (12th Lok Sabha). He is a practising Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of India and the Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh.
Born at Kharar (District Ropar, Punjab) on 15 June 1952, he did his schooling from Christian High School, Kharar. He passed his BA (with honours in Political Science) in 1973 from Government College of Education, Chandigarh, and MA (Political Science) from Panjab University, Chandigarh in 1975. He started his career as a newspaper hawker. He, with his father Late Shri Rup Lal Jain, used to sell newspapers at Kharar. He pursued his education under hard circumstances. By his hard work he has risen from a hawker to a leading senior advocate and a sharp Parliamentarian.
Because of Emergency in 1975 he had to go to DAV College, Dehradun (affiliated to Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar) to join law from where he obtained his Law Degree in 1979.
He has been quite active in public life right from his school days. He was the President of the Students Union of Christian High School, Kharar, a member of the Central Council of the Government College, Chandigarh and was elected as General Secretary of the Punjab University Students' Council in 1974, by getting the highest number of votes.
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