Party Name : Indian National Congress
Constituency : Gurdaspur
State : Punjab
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 5 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 11
More Information :
Positions Held : 1980 Elected to Lok Sabha (Seventh) 1981-82 Member, Joint Committee to examine the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 1985 Re-elected to Lok Sabha (Eighth) 1989 Elected to Lok Sabha (Ninth) for the third time 1992 Elected* to Lok Sabha (Tenth) for the fourth time July 1992- Union Minister of State, Civil Aviation and Tourism May 1996 (Department of Tourism) 1996 Elected to Lok Sabha (Eleventh) for the fifth time
Special Interests : Upliftment of women
Favourite Pastime and Recreation : Social work
Countries Visited : Widely travelled
Other Information : Worked as an Executive with I.T.D.C. and East India Hotels; also underwent training as Hotel Executive in Paris
Election Result : Gurdaspur Lok Sabha constituency Total electorate 10,50,121 Total votes polled 6,87,387 Votes polled in favour of the first four leading candidates : (1) Smt. Sukhbuns Kaur (I.N.C.) 2,37,499 (2) Shri Jagdish Sawhney (B.J.P.) 1,62,952 (3) Shri Jagdish Singh Walia (S.A.D.) 1,40,812 (4) Shri Dharam Chand (B.S.P.) 34,887
