Punjab’s bachelor minister to tie knots with IPS officer
Kanwar Inder Singh/ March 12,2023
As per reports, Punjab’s bachelor cabinet minister Harjot singh Bains is going to get married in the month of march, with Jyoti Yadav, Punjab cadre IPS officer. Yadav is presently posted as SP (headquarter).
On 19 March 2022 he took oath as the youngest ever cabinet minister in the history of Punjab state by breaking the record of Bikram Singh Majithia.
Bains hails from Village Gambhirpur in Shri Anandpur Sahib tehsil, district Ropar of Punjab. His grandfather Late Ujjagar Singh Bains was an employee in BBMB Nangal and worked in the construction of Bhakra Nangal Dam and his maternal grandfather Late Kabal Singh Dhillon was one of the leading contractors of his time in Nangal.
He did his schooling from Ludhiana and BA LLB Hons. from Punjab University. He has also been to London School of Economics and Political Science for a short course in International Human Rights Law. He is a practicing lawyer in Punjab and Haryana High Court.
He has been part of many social movements and founded a Pan Punjab United Youth Organization at the age of 18. He actively participated in the India Against Corruption movement. He was the founding president of the Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab at the age of 23. In 2016, he led the 300-kilometre-long (190 miles), 15-day “Nawa Punjab March” against drug abuse in Punjab, walking from Shri in Fatehgarh Sahib district to the border of Hussainiwala in Ferozepur district.[
(royalpatiala.in News)
