Raninder Singh

Raninder Singh (born 2 August 1967) is an Indian politician and sports administrator from Punjab, India, and son of former Chief Minister of Punjab, Amarinder Singh. He is the titular heir to the historical royal Phulkian dynasty of Patiala.

Early life and education Belonging to the former royal family of Patiala, Singh is the son of Amarinder Singh and Preneet Kaur. He has a sister Jai Inder Kaur. He attended Yadavindra Public School, Patiala and subsequently studied at The Doon School, Dehradun. He graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and completed a master of business administration degree from Buckingham University, UK in 1990.

Subsequently he joined the Youth Congress division of the party himself. In 2005, he was appointed General Secretary of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) in 2005 and made in-charge of the Bathinda district. In the coming years, he worked in the region, and as a result he was credited for Congress winning the maximum seats in the Malwa region, in the State Assembly elections in India, 2007, while the party faced a rout in Majha and Doaba regions of Punjab. He lost in the 2012 Punjab Assembly elections in from the Samana constituency.

Sports administration He was appointed as the President of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) in December 2009. He won from his nearest rival Shyam Singh Yadav by a landslide majority. He has been an accomplished international level trap shooter himself.

Singh was elected as one of the vice-presidents of the International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) in November 2018 and he was the first Indian to be elected as vice-president of the ISSF. He served as one of the ISSF vice-presidents until November 2022. Singh, along with others who lost in the 2022 ISSF presidential election, was reported as being seen as a supporter of the then ISSF president and Russian oligarch, Vladimir Lisin. In 2021, Seherinder married Aditya Narang, a businessman.