Charanjit Singh Atwal

Charanjit Singh Atwal (born 15 March 1937) is an Indian politician who was Deputy Speaker of the 14th Lok Sabha of India from 2004 to 2009. He represented the Phillaur constituency of Punjab in the 14th Lok Sabha and is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) political party.

He was Speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly from 1997 to 2002 and again from 2012 to 2017.

Early life Charanjit Singh Atwal was born to a Mazhabi Sikh family in Montgomery, Punjab Province, British India (Punjab in Pakistan after partition in 1947). Sardar Atwal's family, like many Punjabis migrated to Indian Punjab as refugees Santosh Chowdhury was the previous 1999 election winner, winning by what was then a large margin of 26,573 votes.

From 1997 to 2000 he was Chairman of the Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes. He was jailed during the 1975-77 emergency.

He has served as Speaker of Punjab Legislative Assembly for a second time since 2012.

Personal life

Sardar Charanjit.S.Atwal is married to Inderjit Kaur, with whom he has two sons, Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal (also a politician & businessman) and Jasjeet Singh Atwal and three daughters, Dr. Kulminderjit Kaur, Parminderjit Kaur and Tripat Kaur Atwal. Jasjeet Atwal has a pair of twins.