Sukhpal Singh Khaira

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Sukhpal Singh Khaira (born 13 January 1965) is an Indian politician of the Aam Aadmi Party. He is a former member of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee and a Member of Punjab Legislative Assembly of Bholath from 2007-2012 and from 11th March 2017 to the present day.

Sukhpal Singh Khaira is the son of veteran akali leader and former Punjab education minister Sukhjinder Singh Khaira.

He did his schooling from Bishop Cotton School, Shimla. H.P and graduated from DAV College (Panjab University Chandigarh)

1994 - He was elected as Member Panchayat from Village Ramgarh, District Kapurthala.

1997 - He joined the Youth congress and was appointed as vice president of Punjab Youth Congress.

1999 - Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee appointed him as secretary of their organisation.

2005 - He was appointed president of Kapurthala district's Congress committee (2005 to 2010).

2006 - He became elected director of Central Cooperative Bank, Kapurthala.

2007 - He was elected as Member of Legislative Assembly from Bholath till 2012 under the Congress party, Kapurthala, Punjab after two failed attempts in 1997 and 2002.

2009 - He was appointed as Punjab Congress Spokesperson and was reappointed in 2013, (he later resigned in 2014 from the post, owning moral responsibility for the "poor performance" of the party in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls in the state).

2015 - on 25 December Khaira announced his resignation from Congress party and declared his unification with the Aam Aadmi Party.

2017 - on 11th March Sukhpal Singh Khaira won the Member of Legislative Assembly elections second time in a row in his constituency of Bholath, however this time acting under the Aam Aadmi Party.

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