Date of Birth: 03-04-1936;

Place of Birth: Chak No. 41/41-L, Distt. Montgomery (Pakistan);

Name of Father: Late S. Karam Singh;

Name of Mother: Late Smt. Kulwant Kaur;

Name of Wife: Smt. Sawinder Kaur;

Children: Two sons.

Elected to the Punjab Vidhan Sabha for the first time in 1985, 1997 and again in February, 2007 and became Speaker, Punjab Legislative Assembly; remained Cabinet Minister for Rural Development and Panchayats and State Minister for Technical Education; remained Deputy Speaker, Punjab Legislative Assembly, remained Chairman, Marketing-Cum- Processing Cooperative Society, Fatehgarh Churian during 1968-72; remained Member and Chairman, Subordinate Services Selection Board, Punjab during 1978-80; President, Guru Nanak Dev Public School Trust Dera Baba Nanak, Gurdaspur and Member, Sikh Educational Society, Chandigarh; Member, Political Affairs Committee of Shiromani Akali Dal; now President, Commenwealth Parliamentary Association and Indian Parliamentary Association- Punjab Branches; remained Member of various Committees of Punjab Vidhan Sabha; attended Presiding Officr's Conferece in Kerala ; also participated in the 53^rd Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference at New Delhi and Climate Conference on the issue of Enviornment in United Kingdom .

EDUCATION: M.A., L.L.B.

PROFESSION: Advocate.

FIELDS OF INTEREST: Studying Religious books and Gardening

TRAVELS/COUNTRIES VISITED: U.K., U.S.A., New Zealand, Pakistan

PERMANENT ADDRESS: Village Dadu Jodh, P.O. Fatehgarh Churian, Tehsil Batala, Distt. Gurdaspur.

TELEPHONE/MOBILE:- 0183-2222545, 0172-2740372, 2740739.