Surendrajeet Singh Ahluwalia

Surendrajeet Singh Ahluwalia is an avid reader of history, law and social sciences. He has also penned articles and features in the Economic Times, publications of Press Council of India and others from time to time. Ahluwalia is interested in the use of technology for the welfare of mankind especially in alleviation of mass poverty.

• Elected to 16th Lok Sabha.

• Member, Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament.

• Member, Standing Committee on Home Affairs.

• Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Information Technology.

• Member, Select Committee on Medical Council Bill.

• Member, General Council of the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.

• Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Science and Technology.

• Member, General Purposes Committee.

• Member on the Samsad (Court) of Visva-Bharati.

• Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment (Department of Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation) and Parliamentary Affairs.

• Union Minister of State, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

• Member, Public Accounts Committee.

• Chairperson, Joint Committee on the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Second Amendment) Bill, 2015.

• Union Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; and Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.

• Member, Sub-Committee-VI (XIX Commonwealth Games 2010) of the Public Accounts Committee (2015-16).

• Union Minister of State, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation.

• Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Tourism and Culture.

• Member, Standing Committee on Finance.

• Chairperson, Committee on Privileges.

• Convenor, Sub-Committee to Examine Various Provisions of the Enemy Property (Amendment & Validation) Second Bill, 2010 of the Committee on Home Affairs.

• Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee to Examine Matters Relating to Allocation and Pricing of Telecom Licenses and Spectrum.

• Member, Committee on Provision of Computer Equipment to Members of Rajya Sabha.

• Member, Select Committee to the Prevention of Torture Bill, 2010.

• Member, Joint Committee on Offices of Profit.

• Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee on Security matters in Parliament House Complex.

• Member, Standing Committee on Finance.

• Convenor, Sub-Committee on Civil Defense & Rehabilitation of J & K Migrants of the Standing Committee on Home Affairs.

• Member, Committee of Privileges.

• Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.

• Member, Committee on Rules.

• Member, House Committee Member, Business Advisory Committee.

• Member, Standing Committee on Home Affairs.

• Member, Committee on Ethics.

• Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (4th term).

• Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Finance.

• Member, National Monitoring Committee for Minorities’ Education.

• Member, House Committee.

• Member, Committee of Privileges.

• Member, Standing Committee on Information Technology.

• Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.

• Member, Business Advisory Committee.

• Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee on Stock Market Scam and matters relating thereto.

• Member, Standing Committee on Finance.

• Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Agriculture.

• Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (3rd term).

• Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (2nd term).

• Member, Joint Parliamentary Committee to inquire into Irregularities in Securities and Banking Transactions.

• Surendrajeet Singh Ahluwalia was elected to Rajya Sabha.

He was a Member of the G.S. Dhillon Committee constituted by Government of India for providing relief and rehabilitation to the victims of the November 1984 riots in the country. He served as elected President in the Management Board of the Gurudwara Takht Shri Harimandirji, Patna Sahib, in consecutive terms from 1994-2001 and as a nominee of Parliament in the Board of Management of Gurudwara Sachkhand Shri Hazur Apchalnagar Sahib, Nanded (Maharashtra) from 1998-2000. He had visited U.K., to address Peace Rally in 1986. In 1989, he went to Geneva (Switzerland) to participate as alternate leader of the Indian delegation to the Conference of United Nations Human Rights Commission. In 1997, he visited Mauritius as a member of the Indian Parliamentary delegation to attend the 43rd Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference. As member of the delegation to Parliament of European Union (E.U.), he visited Brussels (Belgium) in January, 2002, to apprise the E.U. of the terrorist attack on Indian Parliament on 13 December 2001. He attended General Assembly session of the United Nations in October, 2002 and addressed issues including "Social Development". He led the Indian delegation to the Inaugural Assembly of the International Parliamentarians` Association for Information Technology (IPAIT) held from 23-26, July 2002 in Seoul (Republic of Korea) where he addressed about the concern regarding the "Growing Digital Divide". In Windhoek (Namibia) he led the Indian delegation to the 48th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference inaugurated on 31 August 2002. He also attended the 109th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva (Switzerland) from 1-3, October 2003 and served as Rapporteur on the "Role of Parliaments in Assisting Multilateral Organisations in ensuring peace and security in building an international coalition for peace". Ahluwalia visited Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania from 5-13, June 2003, as a member of the Goodwill Delegation from Indian Parliament led by the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Government of India.