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 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.

• Third Modi ministry

• Digital Sansad Profile