Jagdish Raj Sahni was an Indian politician from

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

. Sahni was elected as a member of the

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from Batala (constituency) in 1992, 1997 and 2007. Sahni defeated Ashwani Sekhri of

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

by 46 votes in 2007 Punjab Assembly election. Sahni died from

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aged 77.

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1944 births 2021 deaths 21st-century Indian politicians People from Gurdaspur district Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Punjab Punjab, India MLAs 1992–1997 Punjab, India MLAs 1997–2002 Punjab, India MLAs 2002–2007 {{PunjabIN-BJP-politician-stub