Jaswinder Singh Sandhu
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Jaswinder Singh Sandhu (4 August 1955 - 19 January 2019) was an Indian politician. Belonging to the
Indian National Lok Dal The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) is a political party based primarily in the Indian state of Haryana. It was initially founded as the Haryana Lok Dal (Rashtriya) by Devi Lal in 1996, who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India. The ...
(INLD) party, he was a member of the
Haryana Legislative Assembly The Haryana Legislative Assembly (ISO: ''Hariyāṇā Vidhāna Sabhā'') is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Haryana. The seating of the assembly is at Chandigarh, the capital of the state. There are seats in the house fil ...
representing the
Pehowa Pehowa () (old name Pitrudhak Teerth) is a town and a municipal committee in Kurukshetra district in the Indian state of Haryana. It is an important sacred Hindu pilgrimage site, related to Krishna and the ''Mahabharata'', within the 48 Kos P ...
Vidhan Sabha The State Legislative Assembly, also known as the Vidhan Sabha or the Saasana Sabha, is a legislative body in each of the states and certain union territories of India. Members of the legislative assembly are often directly elected to serve fiv ...
constituency in
Haryana Haryana () is a States and union territories of India, state located in the northern part of India. It was carved out after the linguistic reorganisation of Punjab, India, Punjab on 1 November 1966. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with les ...
. Jaswinder Singh Sandhu was born on 4 August 1955. He was educated at Gumthala Garhu village in Pehowa to matriculation level and became involved in agriculture as well as politics. He was married to Amarjeet Kaur and had three sons. Sandhu was
sarpanch A sarpanch, gram pradhan, mukhiya, or president is a decision-maker, elected by the village-level constitutional body of local self-government called the gram sabha (village government) in India. The sarpanch, together with other elected panchay ...
of Gumthala Garhu from 1978 to 1991. He was also an organiser for the
Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; ) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India. It was founded on 4 October 1992 by former Janata Dal politician Mulayam Singh Yadav and is headquartered in New Delhi. It is the third-largest political party in ...
prior to becoming a member of the INLD. He was elected four times to the Haryana Legislative Assembly, in 1991, 1996, 2000 and 2014. Sandhu died on 19 January 2019. He had cancer.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sandhu, Jaswinder Singh 2019 deaths 1955 births Samajwadi Party politicians Indian National Lok Dal politicians Haryana MLAs 2014–2019 Haryana MLAs 1996–2000 Haryana MLAs 2000–2005 Haryana MLAs 1991–1996 People from Kurukshetra district Agriculture ministers of Haryana