Harsimrat Kaur Badal

Harsimrat Kaur Badal
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Assumed office
13 May 2009
Preceded byParamjit Kaur Gulshan
ConstituencyBathinda
Minister for Food Processing Industries
In office
26 May 2014 – 17 September 2020
Prime MinisterNarendra Modi
Preceded byKrishna Tirath
Succeeded byNarendra Singh Tomar
Personal details
Born (1966-07-25) 25 July 1966 (age 58)
New Delhi, India
Political partyShiromani Akali Dal
Other political
affiliations
National Democratic Alliance (1998-2020)
Spouse
(m. 1991)
Children3
RelativesParkash Singh Badal (father-in-law)
Bikram Singh Majithia (brother)
Sardar Surjit Singh Majithia (grandfather)
Majithia Sirdars
ResidenceChandigarh
ProfessionPolitician
Websiteharsimratkaurbadal.online

Harsimrat Kaur Badal (born 25 July 1966) is an Indian politician and a former Union Cabinet Minister of Food Processing Industries in the Government of India[1] and Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Bathinda. She is a member of Shiromani Akali Dal Party.[2] Her husband Sukhbir Singh Badal is former deputy chief minister of Punjab and the president of Shiromani Akali Dal.[3] She resigned from the cabinet on 17 September 2020 to protest against few farmer related ordinances and legislation.[4]

  1. ^ HT Correspondent (26 May 2014). "Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal sworn in as food processing minister". Hindustan Times. New Delhi. Archived from the original on 27 May 2014. {{cite news}}: |author1= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ "Constituency Wise Detailed Results (2009)." Electoral Commission of India, 2009. Page 112. Retrieved 30 October 2011.[dead link]
  3. ^ "Politically Famous Better Halves: Sonia Gandhi, Poonam Sinha & Dimple Yadav". The Economic Times. 14 May 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference resignation2020 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).