A Post Graduate in Economics from Panjab University and an MBA from California University, USA, Sukhbir Singh Badal was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time in 1996.
From 1996 to 1997 he was Member of Consultative Committees, Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Commerce. In 1998 he was re-elected to the Lok Sabha for the second term. He was made the Union Minister of State for Industries on March 19, 1998.
His favourite pastime is travelling, skeet and trap shooting and making sculptures. He is also a member of the Golf Club in Chandigarh and President's Polo Club in New Delhi.
Born on July 9, 1962 in Faridkot, the son of former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal is married to Harsimrat Badal and is the father of a daughter.
Last year in December, the Punjab Vigilance Bureau had filed a chargesheet alleging that Prakash Singh Badal, his wife Surinder Kaur Badal and son Sukhbir Singh Badal had amassed assets vastly disproportionate to their known sources of income when Badal was in power.
The Badal family dismissed the allegation calling it an absurd political vendetta. While his father Prakash Singh Badal filed a defamation case against Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, Sukhbir hit back strongly denying the charges.
{{/usCountry}}The Badal family dismissed the allegation calling it an absurd political vendetta. While his father Prakash Singh Badal filed a defamation case against Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, Sukhbir hit back strongly denying the charges.
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