Rajan Sushant

Dr Rajan Sushant is an Indian politician and a member of Aam Aadmi Party.[1] In the 2009 election he was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Kangra constituency in Himachal Pradesh on BJP ticket. He is a former member of Bhartiya Janata Party.

Rajan Sushant
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
2009-2014
Preceded byChander Kumar
Succeeded byShanta Kumar
ConstituencyKangra, Himachal Pradesh
Personal details
Born (1955-05-30) 30 May 1955
Sihal, Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh, India
Political partyAam Aadmi Party (since 2022) and (2014-2016)
Other political
affiliations		Bharatiya Janata Party (till 2014)
Himachal Regional Alliance (2016-2022)
Spouse
Sudha Sushant
​
(m. 1985)​
Children2
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Political career

Sushant is generally referred to as an honest firebrand politician due to the open criticism of his own party and government at various events in time. He was suspended from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in April 2011 on anti-party activities after he had raised serious corruption charges within the party. He left BJP few months before 2014.[2]

Member of Legislative Assembly

Sushant emerged from the Emergency period churning after being in jail for months during his student days opposing emergency. He was elected as the youngest member of the H.P legislative assembly in 1982. He is a five-time member of the assembly and was Minister in BJP government from 1998 to 2003. He has led many agitations and movements, prominent being Shah Nahar, Daily Wagers and Nurpur College. He has been jailed by the various governments for years consequent to various public agitations and protests.

Many land reforms were also introduced during his tenure as Revenue Minister, major being translation of rules from Urdu to Hindi and English, issuing Kisan Pass Books and digitization of land records, etc.

Member of Parliament

In the 2009 election he was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Kangra constituency in Himachal Pradesh on BJP ticket.[3][4]

Aam Aadmi Party

He had joined Anna Andolan and later joined AAP from where he contested the 2014 Lok Sabha election only to secure the third position in the Kangra-Chamba constituency. He then became active in a social organization.

In 2016 he quit AAP and founded a new party named Himachal Party Himachal Regional Alliance.[2]

Since 2022, he is a member of Aam Aadmi Party. He is AAP candidate from Fatehpur, Himachal Pradesh Assembly constituency for the 2022 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. His name was released in the first list of 4 candidates on 20 September 2022.[2][5]

References
  1. "Former BJP MP Rajan Sushant joins AAP". 22 February 2014.
  2. "Himachal Pradesh election: AAP takes lead, announces first list of candidates". Hindustan Times. 20 September 2022. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  3. ECI Winners List Himachal Pradesh
  4. Lok Sabha Members Himachal Pradesh Archived 27 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "HP Assembly Election: विधानसभा चुनाव के लिए आम आदमी पार्टी ने जारी की प्रत्याशियों की पहली सूची". Amar Ujala (in Hindi). Retrieved 28 September 2022.
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