Surjit Singh Majithia (1912-1995) was an Indian politician, diplomat and air force officer. He was elected to the

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, the lower house of the

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from the Tarn Taran constituency of

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as a member of the

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Biography

Majithia was born into the prominent Sher-Gill

Jatt Sikh Jat Sikh (also known by the more conventional endonym Jatt Sikh) is a sub-group of the Jat people and the Sikh religious group from the Indian subcontinent. They are one of the dominant communities in the Punjab owing to their large land holdin ...

landholding Majithia family. His father was

Sundar Singh Majithia Sardar Bahadur Sir Sundar Singh Majithia (17 February 1872 – 2 April 1941) was a Punjabi landowner and politician. Biography He was born to an aristocratic Sher-Gill Jat Sikh family, the son of Raja Surat Singh of Majitha. He was educat ...

who served in the Punjab government. Majithia was commissioned a pilot officer in the flying branch of the Indian Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 8 November 1939, two months after the start of the Second World War. He rose to command a fighter squadron until he left the Air Force in 1944 to pursue a political career. From 1945 to 1947, he was member of

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, served on the Defence Consultative Committee and was principal of Khalsa College, Amritsar. After independence in 1947, he was promoted to honorary wing commander in the (Royal) Indian Air Force and appointed ambassador to the neighbouring country of

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is ma ...

, where he remained until 1949. He was also President of

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and

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; Vice-president of

National Rifle Association of India The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) was founded in 1951 with a view to promote and popularize the shooting sports in India. The first speaker of Lok Sabha, Sh. G.V. Mavlankar was the founder and the first president of NRAI followed b ...

and President of All India Tennis Association.

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Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
1912 births 1995 deaths Indian National Congress politicians Lok Sabha members from Punjab, India India MPs 1952–1957 India MPs 1957–1962 India MPs 1962–1967 Indian Air Force officers Ambassadors of India to Nepal Union deputy ministers of India Indian cricket administrators Presidents of the Board of Control for Cricket in India People from Tarn Taran district Punjabi people Indian Sikhs Indian military personnel of World War II Military personnel from Punjab, India Indian National Congress politicians from Punjab, India {{PunjabIN-INC-politician-stub

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