Rajinder Kaur Bhattal
Rajinder Kaur Bhattal | |
|---|---|
| 2nd Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab | |
| In office 6 January 2004 – 1 March 2007 | |
| Chief Minister | Amarinder Singh |
| Preceded by | Herself |
| Succeeded by | Sukhbir Singh Badal |
| Constituency | Lehra |
| In office 6 August 1996 – 21 November 1996 | |
| Chief Minister | Harcharan Singh Brar |
| Preceded by | Balram Das Tandon |
| Succeeded by | Herself |
| Constituency | Lehra |
| Leader of opposition in Punjab Legislative assembly | |
| In office 12 February 1997 – 10 October 1998 | |
| Preceded by | Satnam Singh Kainth |
| Succeeded by | Chaudhary Jagjit Singh |
| Constituency | Lehra |
| In office 1 March 2007 – 14 March 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Parkash Singh Badal |
| Succeeded by | Sunil Kumar Jakhar |
| 14th Chief Minister of Punjab | |
| In office 21 November 1996 – 11 February 1997 | |
| Preceded by | Harcharan Singh Brar |
| Succeeded by | Parkash Singh Badal |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 September 1945 |
| Party | Indian National Congress |
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Rajinder Kaur Bhattal (born 30 September 1945) is an Indian politician and member of Congress who served as the 14th Chief Minister of Punjab from 1996 to 1997. She is also served as 2nd Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab from 2004 to 2007. She is the first and so far only female to hold the office of Chief Minister in Punjab. Overall she is 8th female Chief Minister and first female deputy chief minister in India. Since 1992 she has won from Lehra Assembly Constituency five terms consecutively.