Rajinder Kaur Bulara (born 1946) is a politician of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Mann) group and was a member of the

9th Lok Sabha The 9th Lok Sabha (2 December 1989 – 13 March 1991) was elected during elections in 22–26 November 1989. The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the Parliament of India. Twelve sitting members from Rajya Sabha were elected ...

Early life

Rajinder Kaur was born at Raja Jung,

Lahore district Lahore District () is a Districts of Punjab, Pakistan, district in Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab, Pakistan, consisting of the provincial capital, Lahore and surrounding areas. It is the most populous Districts of Pakistan, district of Pakistan, with ...

of undivided India on 10 June 1946 to Sardar Harsa Singh Sandhu and his wife. She attended the Dev Samaj College for Women at

Firozpur Firozpur, (pronunciation: ɪroːzpʊr also known as Ferozepur, is a city on the banks of the Sutlej River in the Firozpur District of Punjab, India. After the Partition of India in 1947, it became a border town on the India–Pakistan bor ...

and holds bachelor's degrees in Arts and Education.

Career

Kaur participated in the relief work following the

1984 anti-Sikh riots The 1984 anti-Sikh riots, also known as the 1984 Sikh massacre, was a series of organised pogroms against Sikhs in India following the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. Government estimates project that about 2,800 Sikhs w ...

. She was the official candidate of Shiromani Akali Dal (Mann) from

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during the

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. She defeated

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of the

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by a margin of 1,33,729 votes and was elected to the

. As a Member of Parliament, she was a member of the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Industry. She contested the

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from Ludhiana West but could secure only 3.30% of the total votes polled.

Personal life

Rajinder married Sardar Rajinder Pal Singh Gill on 17 November 1967. A professor of the

Punjab Agricultural University Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) is a public funded agricultural university located in Ludhiana district of Punjab. It is a central agricultural university in India established under Harayana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act 1970 ...

, he was killed in a fake police encounter for allegedly being a militant. She has two children from him.

References

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