Shamsher Singh Surjewala
Shamsher Singh Surjewala Nain (24 March 1932 – 20 January 2020) son of Chaudhury Ganga Singh Nain of village Surja Khera urf Sheogarh in Narwana Jind Haryana. He and his son Randeep Singh Surjewala uses their village name Surjewala as from Surja Kheda, their real gotra is Nain. His wife Smt. Vidya Kulharia was born in the year 1937 in Chak No. 149, Near Arafwala Mandi, Tehsil Baghpattan, District Mintg umri (now in Pakistan). During the Partition of India in 1947, she along with her family and millions of others, migrated to the present day India and settled in Hisar in Haryana.
About
He was a lawyer and politician from Haryana, belonging to Indian National Congress.His mother’s surname was Nain, maternal family from village Kanha Khera in district Jind .Ch.Ganga Ram his father was from Kandhal gotra. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha and Haryana Legislative Assembly. He also served as the president of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee, minister of the Government of Haryana and the leader of the opposition in the Haryana Legislative Assembly.
During his school days, he was expelled from Yadvindra State High School by the ruler of Sangrur for espousing the agenda of Indian National Congress.
Career
In September 1957; his father started his law practice as an ace lawyer specializing in criminal law and jurisprudence but amiably graduated to grassroots politics getting elected first as Managing Director of Central Co-operative Bank, Sangrur in 1959-60 and then as Chairman of Panchayat Samiti, Kalayat (now in District Kaithal) in 1961 and again in 1964.
He was also a veteran Parliamentarian having been elected to Haryana Legislative Assembly in 1967, 1977, 1982, 1991 and 2005 and to Indian Parliament in 1993. He remained one of the spokesmen of Congress Party.
Elections
- MLA 1967, 2 "Narwana" Vidhan sabha - Republic Party of India
- MLA 1968, 3 "Narwana" Vidhan sabha - Swantantra Party - Lost
- MLA 1977, 5 "Narwana" Vidhan sabha - Congress
- MLA 1982, 6 "Narwana" Vidhan sabha - Congress
- MLA 1987, 7 "Narwana" Vidhan sabha - Congress - Lost
- MLA 1991 8 "Narwana" Vidhan sabha - Congress
- MP 1992-98 Rajya Sabha from Haryana - Congress
- MLA 2005 11 "Kaithal" Vidhan sabha - Congress
Obituary
- Tribune News Service - Chandigarh, January 20, 2020
Former Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee chief and Rajya Sabha ex-MP Shamsher Singh Surjewala passed away at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi on Monday, 22 January 2020.
The 87-year-old leader had been ailing for the past couple of years.
His cremation will take place at 3 pm on Monday at Narwana, a constituency he represented as MLA four times before moving to Kaithal following delimitation.
He was the father of AICC media in-charge and former Haryana minister Randeep Singh Surjewala.
Surjewala’s brush with India’s independence struggle started in the 1940s when he was president of the Students Congress in Sangrur district of the erstwhile Punjab. He was expelled from the Yadavindra State high school by the ruler of Sangrur for espousing the agenda of the Indian National Congress.
He started law practice in 1957 and was elected managing director, Central Bank of Sangrur, before being elected chairman of the panchayat samiti of Kalayat in Kaithal district.
Surjewala also remained minister in the state government on four occasions. He was a five-time MLA - from Narwana in 1967, 1977, 1982 and 1991 and from Kaithal in 2005.
He was also former president of the All India Kisan Congress, who vociferously raised the issue of farmers’ suicides in Haryana.[1]
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