Raninder Singh (born 2 August 1967) is an Indian politician and sports administrator from

Punjab, India Punjab () is a States and union territories of India, state in northwestern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab, Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the States and union territories of India, Indian states ...

, and son of former Chief Minister of Punjab,

Amarinder Singh Amarinder Singh (born 11 March 1942) is an Indian politician, military historian, former royal and Indian Army veteran who served as the 15th Chief Minister of Punjab. His father, Yadavindra Singh, was the last Maharaja of the princely st ...

. He is the titular heir to the historical royal

Phulkian dynasty The Phulkian dynasty (or Phoolkian) of Maharajas or '' sardars'' were Sikh royals and aristocrats in the Punjab region of India. Members of the dynasty ruled the Phulkian states of Badrukhan, Bhadaur, Faridkot, Jind, Malaudh, Nabha, and Pati ...

Patiala Patiala () is a city in southeastern Punjab, India, Punjab, northwestern India. It is the fourth largest city in the state and is the administrative capital of Patiala district. Patiala is located around the ''Qila Mubarak, Patiala, Qila Mubar ...

Early life and education

Belonging to the former royal family of

, Singh is the son of

and

Preneet Kaur Preneet Kaur (born 3 October 1944) is an Indian politician who served in the Government of India as a Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs from 2009 to 2014. She is married to Amarinder Singh, who was the 15th Chief Minister ...

. He has a sister Jai Inder Kaur. He attended Yadavindra Public School, Patiala and subsequently studied at

The Doon School The Doon School (informally Doon School or Doon) is a Selective school, selective all-boys Private school, private boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, which was established in 1935. It was envisioned by Satish Ranjan Das, a lawyer ...

Dehradun Dehradun (), also known as Dehra Doon, is the winter capital and the List of cities in Uttarakhand by population, most populous city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous Dehradun district, d ...

. He graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and completed a master of business administration degree from Buckingham University, UK in 1990.

Political career

He started his political career in late 1990s, by assisting with the election campaigns of his father and mother Preneet Kaur, an

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...

Member of Parliament (MP) from the

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constituency, four times, 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2019. Subsequently he joined the Youth Congress division of the party himself. In 2005, he was appointed General Secretary of the

Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (or Punjab PCC), formerly known as the Punjab Provincial Congress Committee in colonial India, is the affiliate of the Indian National Congress in the state of Punjab. It is responsible for organizing and coord ...

(PPCC) in 2005 and made in-charge of the

Bathinda district Bathinda district is in Malwa region of Punjab, India. The district encompasses an area of 3,385 square kilometers. By area, Bathinda district is the second-largest in Punjab, after Ludhiana district. It is bounded by Faridkot district and ...

. 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 Malwa () is a historical region, historical list of regions in India, region of west-central India occupying a plateau of volcanic origin. Geologically, the Malwa Plateau generally refers to the volcanic plateau, volcanic upland north of the ...

region, in the State Assembly elections in India, 2007, while the party faced a rout in

Majha Majha ( ''Mājhā''; ; from "mañjhlā" )Punjabi language, Punjabi: ਮਾਝਾ , is a region located in the central parts of the historical Punjab region, presently split between the republics of Pakistan and India. It extends north from the ...

and

Doaba Doaba, also known as Bist Doab or the Jalandhar Doab, is the region of Punjab, India that lies between the Beas River and the Sutlej River. People of this region are given the demonym "Doabia". The dialect of Punjabi spoken in Doaba ...

regions of Punjab. He unsuccessfully contested for

elections against

Harsimrat Kaur Badal Harsimrat Kaur Badal (born 25 July 1966) is an Indian politician and a former Union Cabinet Minister of Food Processing Industries in the Government of India and Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Bathinda. She is a member of Shiromani ...

, the wife of Punjab Deputy Chief Minister

Sukhbir Singh Badal Sukhbir Singh Badal (born 9 July 1962) is an Indian politician and businessman who served twice as the Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab and is currently the president of Shiromani Akali Dal, and was a member of Parliament from the Firozpur Lok ...

in the

2009 Indian general election General elections were held in India in five phases between 16 April 2009 and 13 May 2009 to elect the members of the fifteenth Lok Sabha. With a registered electorate of 716 million and a turnout of 417 million voters, it was the l ...

, from

Bathinda Bathinda is a city and municipal corporation in Punjab, India. The city is the administrative headquarters of Bathinda district. It is located in northwestern India in the Malwa Region, west of the capital city of Chandigarh and is the fifth ...

, in a high-profile run up to the elections. He lost in the 2012 Punjab Assembly elections in from the Samana constituency.

Sports administration

He was appointed as the President of the

National Rifle Association of India The National Rifle Association of India was founded on 17 April, 1951 with a view to promote and popularize the shooting sports in India as well as for self-defense teaching purposes. The NRAI arranges national-level shooting competitions and t ...

(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. Singh was elected as one of the vice-presidents of the International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) in November 2018 and he was the first Indian to be elected as vice-president of the ISSF. He served as one of the ISSF vice-presidents until November 2022. Singh, along with others who lost in the 2022 ISSF presidential election, was reported as being seen as a supporter of the then ISSF president and

Russian oligarch Russian oligarchs () are business oligarchs of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth in the 1990s via the Russian privatisation that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The failing Soviet state left the ownership ...

Vladimir Lisin Vladimir Sergeyevich Lisin (born 7 May 1956) is a Russian billionaire businessman. He is the chairman and majority shareholder of Novolipetsk (NLMK), one of the four largest steel companies in Russia. According to ''Bloomberg Billionaires Index' ...

Personal life and family

He married Rishma Kaur (née Dhingra), daughter of

Kuldip Singh Dhingra Kuldip Singh Dhingra is an Indian entrepreneur and a co-owner of Berger Paints. Dhingra has been listed as one of Forbes India's richest Indians and also in its The World's Billionaires list among the highest Indians by net worth. Early life ...

, a co-owner of Berger Paints, and Meeta Dhingra in 1995, and the couple have one son, Yadauinder Singh (b. 2003), and two daughters, Seherinder Kaur (b.1996) and Inayatinder Kaur (b.1999)., 12 Sept 2013. Seherinder married Aditya Narang, a businessman.

References

External links

Genealogy of rulers of Patiala

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General Election 2009 - Affidavits filed by Ranninder Singh
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