Sunil Kumar Jakhar

Sunil Kumar Jakhar
Sunil Kumar Jakhar
President of Bhartiya Janta Party, Punjab
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 4 July 2023
Preceded by	Ashwini Sharma
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
	In office; 15 December 2017 – 23 May 2019
Preceded by	Vinod Khanna
Succeeded by	Sunny Deol
Constituency	Gurdaspur
President Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee
	In office; April 2017 – 18 July 2021
Preceded by	Amarinder Singh
Succeeded by	Navjot Singh Sidhu
Leader of opposition in Punjab Legislative Assembly
	In office; 14 March 2012 – 11 December 2015
Preceded by	Rajinder Kaur Bhattal
Succeeded by	Charanjit Singh Channi
Member of Punjab Legislative Assembly
	In office; 2002–2017
Preceded by	Ram Kumar Goyal
Succeeded by	Arun Narang
Constituency	Abohar
Personal details
Born	9 February 1954; Panjkosi, Punjab, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party; (2022–present)
Other political; affiliations	Indian National Congress; (1990 – 2022)
Parent	Balram Jakhar
Residence(s)	Panjkosi, Punjab, India

Sunil Kumar Jakhar (born 9 February 1954) is an Indian politician and president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Punjab unit since 4th July 2023. Previously, Jakhar was the president of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee from 2017 to 2021. Elected consecutively three times from Abohar Assembly constituency (2002-2017), he was a Leader of the opposition in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha from 2012 to 2017. He was a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) for five decades until 2022. In May 2022, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), claiming that he wanted to support "nationalism, unity and brotherhood in Punjab". Earlier, Jakhar was elected as a Member of Parliament from Gurdaspur constituency to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian parliament in a by-election in 2017.

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