Religion Sikh | Name Raninder Singh Role Politician | |
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Born 2 August 1967 (age 56) ( 1967-08-02 ) Spouse Yuvrani Rishma Kaur (m. 1995) Parents Amarinder Singh, Preneet Kaur Children Seher Singh, Inayat Singh, Rajkumar Yajuvendra Singh Education University of Buckingham (1990), The Doon School, Yadavindra Public School, St. Stephen's College, Delhi Grandparents Rajmata Mohinder Kaur of Patiala, Yadavindra Singh Similar People Amarinder Singh, Preneet Kaur, Rajmata Mohinder Kaur of P | ||
Congress leader raninder singh says he welcomes aap in punjab
Raninder Singh (born 2 August 1967) an Indian politician from Punjab, India, and son of the current Chief Minister of Punjab Amarinder Singh.
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- Congress leader raninder singh says he welcomes aap in punjab
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- Early life and education
- Career
- President of National Rifle Association of India
- Personal life
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Early life and education
He belongs to royal house of Patiala belonging to the Phulkian dynasty, and son of Amarinder Singh and Preneet Kaur. He has a sister Jai Inder Kaur.
He attended Yadavindra Public School, Patiala and subsequently studied at The Doon School, Dehradun. Thereafter he spent one year at St. Stephens College, New Delhi and graduated in business management from Buckingham University, UK in 1990.
Career
He started his political career in late 1990s, by assisting during the election campaigns of his father and mother Preneet Kaur, an Indian National Congress MP from the Patiala Lok Sabha constituency, three times, 1999, 2004 and 2009.
Subsequently joined the Youth Congress division of party himself. In 2005, he was appointed General Secretary of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee(PCC) in 2005 and made in-charge of the Bathinda district. In the coming years, he worked in the region, and as a result he was credited for Congress winning the maximum seats in the Malwa region, in the State Assembly elections in India, 2007, while the party faced a rout in Majha and Doaba regions of Punjab.
He unsuccessfully contested Lok Sabha elections against Harsimrat Kaur Badal, the wife of Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal in 2009 general elections, from Bathinda, in a high-profile run up to the elections.
He lost 2012 Punjab Assembly elections in 2012 from Samana constituency.
President of National Rifle Association of India
He was appointed as the President of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) in December 2009. He won from his nearest rival Shyam Singh Yadav by a landslide majority. He has been an accomplished international level trap shooter himself.
Personal life
He married Rishma Kaur in 1995, and the couple have one son, and two daughters.