Ravneet Singh Bittu
Ravneet Singh Bittu is an Indian politician from Punjab. He is currently serving as the Minister of State for Railways and as the Minister of State for Food Processing Industries in the Third Modi ministry. He is currently serving as an MP of Rajya Sabha representing Rajasthan since August 2024 as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from Ludhiana in 2014 and 2019 Indian general election and earlier from Anandpur Sahib in 2009. He is the grandson of former [List of chief ministers of Punjab, India|Punjab, India|Punjab Chief Minister] Beant Singh. He previously served as the leader of Indian National Congress in Lok Sabha from 11 March 2021 to 18 July 2021.
In January 2021, he was assaulted at the Singhu border during a Jan Sansad program. He was appointed the party whip in Lok Sabha. In March 2021, he was briefly appointed the leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha when the existing Congress Lok Sabha leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was busy in the 2021 West Bengal election campaigns. In 2023, he received a bomb threat via a WhatsApp call. On March 24, 2024, he joined the Bharatiya Janta Party.
Timeline of Positions and Committees
2009 - 2014- * Position: Member
- * Committee: Standing Committee on [Ministry of Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Home Affairs (India)|Home Affairs]1 Sep. 2014 - 25 May 2019
- * Position: Member
- * Committees:
- ** Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas
- ** Consultative Committee, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
- ** Indian Council of Agricultural Research Society1 May 2017 - 25 May 2019
- * Position: Member
- * Committee: Committee on Public Undertakings24 July 2019 - 4 June 2024
- * Position: Member
- * Committee: Committee on Public Undertakings13 Sep. 2019 - 4 June 2024
- * Position: Member
- * Committee: Standing Committee on Home Affairs9 Oct. 2019 - 4 June 2024
- * Position: Chairperson
- * Committee: Committee on Absence of Members from the Sittings of the House21 Nov 2019 - 4 June 2024
- * Position: Member
- * Committees:
- ** General Purposes Committee, Lok Sabha
- ** Consultative Committee, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises