Randeep Surjewala is a famous Indian politician. He is from the Congress party. He is a former MP from Haryana and chief spokesperson of the Indian National Congress (INC).
Wiki/Biography
Randeep Surjewala was born on Saturday, June 3, 1967, in Chandigarh (52 years; as of 2019). His zodiac sign is Gemini. His full name is Randeep Singh Surjewala. He studied at Adarsh Baal Mandir High School and Arya High School in Narwana, Haryana. He subsequently completed his Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from DAV College, Chandigarh in 1981. He received his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from Panjab University, Chandigarh in 1985. He went on to obtain a postgraduate degree in political science from Punjab University in 1995.
Randeep Surjewala when he was young
In 1988, at the age of 21, he began practicing law. Initially, he worked in a law firm called “Shroff & Company”. In 1991, he started practicing before the Punjab and Haryana High Court. In 1992, he became the youngest Senator of Panjab University and a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Faculty of Law. His father was a well-known politician in the Congress Party and he used to help his father with the party’s activities. Randeep also helped his father rebuild the Congress party in Haryana.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′10″
Eye color: black
Hair color: black
family, caste and wife
Randeep Surjewala belongs to the Jat family. His father, Chaudhary Shamsher Singh Surjewala, is a retired politician of the Indian National Congress. He has served as a member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly for five times and was elected to the Assembly in 1993. His father also served as Chairman of the Youth Congress Party before independence. His mother Vidya Surjewala is a housewife. He had 3 sisters: Madhu Dalal, Poonam Chaudhary and Neeru (deceased).
Randeep Surjewala (right) and his father Shamsher Singh Surjewala (left)
On December 26, 1991, he married Gayatri (a housewife). They have two sons, Arjun (the elder) and Aditya.
Profession
Randeep became involved in politics when he was involved in the day-to-day work of the Congress party with his father. His father was working hard to rebuild the Congress party in Haryana. Randeep soon became an active member of the Congress party and was appointed joint secretary of the Haryana Youth Congress in 1986. He is the youngest joint secretary of the Congress party. Eventually, he was promoted as General Secretary of Haryana Youth Congress. In 1993, Surjewala contested for the first time in the Haryana Assembly by-election in Navana Assembly constituency, but did not win.
Randeep Surjewala and Sonia Gandhi
He worked in his constituency for three years and contested the 1996 parliamentary elections. He was sent against the then chief minister of Haryana, Om Prakash Chautala. He shot to fame after winning as defeating the sitting chief minister was a huge achievement. In 2000, he was re-elected in the Navana parliamentary constituency. In March 2000, he was appointed national president of the Indian Youth Congress after winning the Haryana Legislative Assembly. He held this position until February 2005, making him the longest-serving president of the Indian Youth Congress. In 2004, he was appointed secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) by Rahul Gandhi.
Randeep Surjewala and Rahul Gandhi
In December 2004, just months before the 2015 Haryana Assembly elections, Surjewala was appointed as the Haryana Congress Working President. He also contested the elections from Navana Assembly constituency and defeated the current Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala. The Congress also won the Haryana assembly elections and Surjewala was appointed as a cabinet minister in the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government. During his time as a cabinet minister, he held a variety of public sector, power and parliamentary affairs portfolios. In 2009, he was re-elected as MLA from the newly created Kaithal parliamentary constituency; after the Narwana parliamentary constituency was delimited. He was appointed as Cabinet Minister responsible for the ministries of Water Supply and Sanitation, Parliamentary Affairs, Electronics and Information, Science and Technology and the Public Sector.
Randeep Surjewala at the rally
In 2014, he was re-elected as MLA from Kesar Assembly constituency in Haryana. In January 2019, Congress announced Surjewala as its candidate for the Jind Assembly by-election in Haryana. Surjewala reportedly did not want to contest as he was a sitting MP but Rahul Gandhi convinced him to contest from Jind; as he wanted a by-election ahead of the 2019 Haryana Assembly elections in October 2019 Zhong won with a strong face. Surjewala was badly defeated in the by-election and finished third. He contested the 2019 Haryana Assembly elections from Kaithal assembly constituency but lost to Leela Ram of the BJP.
Randeep Surjewala speaks at a press conference
He was appointed as the general secretary in-charge of Madhya Pradesh on August 17, 2023.
dispute
- In October 2012, a Dalit girl from Hisar was raped. The girl’s father committed suicide after the accused circulated a video of the girl being raped. The girl said her father worked as a gardener at Surjewala’s home, but he neither spoke to the family nor visited them. She told the media that the police would have worked more efficiently if Surjewala had been aware of the incident. However, the victim said he took no such action.
- In February 2016, Surjewala addressed a press conference and referred to the 2001 Parliament attack convict “Afzal Guru” as “Afzal Guru Ji”. A video clip of Surjewala calling him ‘Afzal Guruji’ went viral on social media. He later had to apologize after being asked why he was so respectful to terrorists.
- In February 2019, after the Pulwama terror attack, Surjewala tweeted: “Pakistan has violated ceasefire agreement more than 5000 times, where are Narendra Modi’s 56-inch breasts now?” Sujewala tweeted Vara was widely criticized for his tweets. People from various sections of society criticized him and said that instead of mourning the CRPF soldiers, the Congress was politicizing the terror attack.
sign
Randeep Surjewala’s signature
assets/property
- Bank Deposit: 66.95 lacs INR
- Agricultural Land: Haryana Navana Value INR 17.50 Cr
- Commercial Building: Worth INR 1.63 Lakhs
- Residential building in Chandigarh worth INR 18 Cr
Salary and Net Worth
- Salary: 1 lac INR + other allowances (as MLA)
- Net Worth: INR 43.9 Crore (2019)
Facts/Trivia
- He enjoys listening to ghazals and poetry, as well as hiking and camping.
- In 2015, he was appointed as the head of communications department of AICC by Rahul Gandhi.
Randeep Surjewala and Rahul Gandhi
- He is a close aide and advisor to Rahul Gandhi.
Categories: Biography
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