AAP losses one of its Punjab leader
Kanwar Inder singh/ royalpatiala.in
Senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader from Punjab, Sewa Singh Sekhwan passed away on Wednesday. His son Jagroop Singh Sekhwan shared the news on his Facebook account.
Sewa Singh Sekhwan was a former state education minister in Parkash Singh Badal led SAD-BJP and founding members of Shiromani Akali Dal (Taksali).
He was the Education minister of Punjab under the 10 year government of Shiromani Akali Dal. Sekhwan’s father Ujagar Singh Sekhwan was MLA from Kahnuwan in 1977 and 1980. He was founder of a group supporting Indian minorities and Dalits front. He remained the president of Akali Dal during the Emergency in India.
Sekhwan worked as a teacher for 14 years before entering politics after his father’s death in 1990. Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, then SAD president encouraged him to follow his father and supported him to run for Kahnuwan assembly in Gurdaspur District. He was elected MLA in 1997 from Kahnuwan. He was made Revenue, Rehabilitation and Public Relations, Minister in the Badal government.
Sekhwan is a member of SGPC, the supreme Sikh body. Sekhwan Also remained Technical Education Minister.
He had quit Shiromani Akali Dal in 2018 and formed the Shiromani Akali Dal (Taksali) party with other politicians who quit Shiromani Akali Dal Such as Ranjit Singh Brahmpura, Rattan Singh Ajnala, Parminder Singh Dhindsa, Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and Harsukhinder Singh Bubby Badal. He later switched over to the SAD (Democratic) formed by Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa last year.
He had joined the AAP in August this year, when Arvind Kejriwal himself came to Gurdaspur and inducted him to Aam Admi Party.
October 6,2021
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