Navtej Singh Cheema

Navtej Singh Cheema is an Indian politician and belongs to Indian National Congress. He is a member of Punjab Legislative Assembly and represent Sultanpur Lodhi.[1][2]

Navtej Singh Cheema
MLA, Punjab
In office
2012 - Present
Preceded byUpinderjit Kaur
Succeeded byPresent
ConstituencySultanpur Lodhi
Personal details
Political partyIndian National Congress
ResidenceBussowal, Kapurthala

Family

His father's name is Gurmail Singh.[3]

Political career

Cheema was elected to Punjab Legislative Assembly from Sultanpur Lodhi in 2012 by beating Punjab Education Minister Upinderjit Kaur.[1][4] Earlier in 2007, he had contest elections from Sultanpur Lodhi but lost to Upinderjit Kaur.[5]

On 9 October 2015, Cheema along with party supporters blocked the Sultanpur Lodhi-Kapurthala road in protest at the filing of charges against Municipal Council president Vinod Kumar Gupta outside the Tehsil complex at Sultanpur Lodhi.[6]

gollark: ... obviously, I have to go there to sign stuff sometimes.
gollark: Oh, that's where the potatOS master signing key is stored.
gollark: But you could accidentally write the proof wrong.
gollark: Yes. That is what I said.
gollark: It can't stop you from writing an entirely valid and well-typed program which releases bees into the internet when you *meant* to write a fibonacci program.

References

  1. "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2012 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF PUNJAB" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  2. "Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, MLAs". Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee. Archived from the original on 31 July 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  3. "MyNeta Profile". Association for Democratic Reforms. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  4. "SAD-BJP retains power in Punjab". News24Online. 3 June 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  5. "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2007 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF PUNJAB" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  6. http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/jalandhar/congress-activists-mla-block-highway/144132.html
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