Harbhajan Singh ETO
Cabinet Minister for Power and Energy, Government of Punjab
Assumed office
19 March 2022
GovernorBanwarilal Purohit
CabinetMann ministry
Chief MinisterBhagwant Mann
    Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly
    Assumed office
    16 March 2022
    Preceded bySukhwinder Singh Danny
    ConstituencyJandiala
    Personal details
    BornPunjab, India
    Political partyAam Aadmi Party

    Harbhajan Singh E.T.O. is an Indian politician and the MLA from Jandiala Assembly constituency. He is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party.[1][2] He became an Excise and Taxation Officer (ETO) in 2012 but he took voluntary retirement from the post of ETO in 2017 and he contested election from Jandiala constituency in 2017. He secured 33912 votes in 2017 and was among the highest vote gatherers in Majha region of Punjab in 2017. In 2022 he won from the same constituency with a margin of almost 25000+ votes defeating working president and sitting MLA Sukhwinder Singh Danny Bandala.[3]

    Member of Legislative Assembly

    Singh was elected as the MLA in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. He represented the Jandiala Assembly constituency in the Punjab Legislative Assembly. The Aam Aadmi Party gained a strong 79% majority in the sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly by winning 92 out of 117 seats in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. MP Bhagwant Mann was sworn in as Chief Minister on 16 March 2022.[4] He took oath as a cabinet minister along with nine other MLAs on 19 March at Guru Nanak Dev auditorium of Punjab Raj Bhavan in Chandigarh.[5][6] Eight ministers including Singh who took oath were greenhorn (first term) MLAs.[7]

    As a cabinet minister in the Mann ministry, Singh was given the charge of two departments of the Punjab Government:[8]

    1. Department of Power
    2. Department of Public Works

    Power minister

    Fulfilling their election promise of providing free electricity, from 1 July the people in Punjab would get 300 units of free electricity. 73.39 lakh domestic consumers were estimated to benefit from the scheme.[9]

    Electoral performance

    Punjab Assembly election, 2022: Jandiala
    Party Candidate Votes % ±%
    AAP Harbhajan Singh E.T.O.[10] 59,724 46.41
    INC Sukhwinder Singh Danny Bandala 34341 26.69
    SAD Satinderjit Singh Chhajjalwaddi 26302 20.44
    NOTA None of the above 918 0.71
    Majority 25,383 19.72
    Turnout 128681
    Registered electors [11]
    AAP gain from INC

    References

    1. ↑ "Punjab election 2022, Punjab election results 2022, Punjab election winners list, Punjab election 2022 full list of winners, Punjab election winning candidates, Punjab election 2022 winners, Punjab election 2022 winning candidates constituency wise". Financialexpress. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
    2. ↑ "Punjab election 2022 result constituency-wise: Check full list of winners". Hindustan Times. 10 March 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
    3. ↑ The Indian Express (20 March 2022). "The playing 11: CM Bhagwant Mann's cabinet ministers". Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
    4. ↑ "AAP's Bhagwant Mann sworn in as Punjab Chief Minister". The Hindu. 16 March 2022. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
    5. ↑ "Ten Punjab ministers to take oath on Saturday". Tribuneindia News Service. 18 March 2022. Archived from the original on 18 March 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
    6. ↑ "25,000 Government Jobs For Punjab: New Chief Minister's 1st Decision". NDTV.com. Press Trust of India. 19 March 2022. Archived from the original on 19 March 2022. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
    7. ↑ "In Mann's first list of Cabinet ministers, 8 greenhorn MLAs". The Indian Express. 19 March 2022. Archived from the original on 19 March 2022. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
    8. ↑ "Punjab portfolios announced; CM Mann keeps Home and Vigilance, Cheema gets Finance, Singla Health, Harbhajan Power". Tribuneindia News Service. 21 March 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
    9. ↑ "Beginning today, people in Punjab to get 300 units of free power each month". Tribuneindia News Service. 1 July 2022. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
    10. ↑ "Punjab Election 2022: Complete List of AAP Candidates, Check Names HERE". www.india.com. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
    11. ↑ "Punjab General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
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