Pandit Brahm Shankar Sharma Jimpa (or Bram Shanker Jimpa) is an Indian politician and the minister for Revenue and Water Resources in the

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, Punjab government. He is the MLA representing the Hoshiarpur Assembly constituency in the

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. He is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party. He was elected as the MLA in the

2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly elections were held in Punjab on 20 February 2022 to elect the 117 members of the 16th Assembly of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 10 March 2022. The Aam Aadmi ...

Career

He has been four time councilor from Hoshiarpur. On 24 June 2020, Jimpa was appointed by Chief Minister

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as the Vice Chairman of Punjab State Industrial Development Corporation (PSIDC). He is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party.

Member of Legislative Assembly

He was elected as the MLA in the

. He represented the Hoshiarpur Assembly constituency in the

. Jimpa took oath as a cabinet minister along with nine other MLAs on 19 March at Guru Nanak Dev auditorium of

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. Eight ministers including Jimpa who took oath were greenhorn (first term) MLAs. The Aam Aadmi Party gained a strong 79% majority in the

sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly Election for the Sixteenth Legislative Assembly was held in the Indian state of Punjab. Polling was done on 20 February 2022 to elect the 117 members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. The counting of votes declaration of results was done on 10 ...

by winning 92 out of 117 seats in the

. MP

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was sworn in as

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on 16 March 2022. As a cabinet minister in the

Jimpa was given the charge of three departments of the Punjab Government: # Department of Revenue, Rehabilitation and Disaster Management # Department of Water Resources # Department of Water Supply & Sanitation

Revenue Minister

Jimpa took charge as the Revenue minister in the Punjab government in March 2022. He announced that his priority was to bring transparency in the department. He passed an order to live-stream the working of the officials in the revenue department. The order also made it mandatory to submit a daily report of working in the department with a follow up check from the people inquiring if any bribe was taken. The revenue officers objected to the order and threatened protest after which the order was withdrawn. On 5 December 2019, the Council of Ministers in the Amarinder Singh government took a decision to reduce the number of posts of patwari in the revenue department from 4,716 to 3,660. The decision was not publicly disclosed then. In August 2022, only 1,700 patwaris were working in Punjab and more than 3000 seats were vacant. After the new Mann government formation, Jimpa ordered the filling of vacancies of 3,660 authorized posts of patwaris.

Water Resources Minister

Jimpa took charge as the minister in the Water Resources Department of the Punjab government in March 2022. At the time of taking charge, he expressed concern at the fall in the watertable in the state. He expressed intentions of launching a '' 'jan andolan' '' (social movement) for water conservation in agriculture, domestic and commercial sectors. He also expressed intentions for promotion of rainwater harvesting.

Electoral performance

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* {{Authority control Living people Punjab, India MLAs 2022–2027 Aam Aadmi Party politicians from Punjab, India Mann ministry Year of birth missing (living people) People from Hoshiarpur district