Randeep Singh Surjewala (born 3 June 1967) is an Indian politician from Haryana and a member of Indian National Congress party. He was an MLA in the Haryana state legislature until 2019 and a former minister. He held water supply and sanitation, parliamentary affairs, electronics and information technology, science and technology and public works as a minister in Haryana cabinet.^[1] In 2005, he was given the responsibility of Transport and Parliamentary Affairs and thus became the youngest minister in Haryana. He defeated Om Prakash Chautala in 1996 and 2005. As of December 2017, Surjewala is one of the official spokespersons of Indian National Congress party,^[2] and as of September 2021, is a General Secretary of the Indian National Congress and Party in-charge for Karnataka.^[3] In the biennial elections of the Rajya Sabha for the State of Rajasthan, held on 10 June 2022, Mr. Surjewala was elected as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, with his term to start on 5 July 2022.^[4]

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Randeep Singh Surjewala
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 July 2022 (2022-07-05)
Preceded by	Om Prakash Mathur, BJP
Constituency	Rajasthan
General Secretary of AICC for Karnataka
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 September 2020
Preceded by	K.C. Venugopal
National Spokesperson of Indian National Congress
Member of Legislative Assembly , Haryana
In office 2009 – 24 October 2019
Succeeded by	Leela Ram
Constituency	Kaithal
In office 2005–2009
Preceded by	Om Prakash Chautala
Succeeded by	Pirthi Singh Numberdar
Constituency	Narwana
In office 1996–2000
Preceded by	Om Prakash Chautala
Succeeded by	Om Prakash Chautala
Constituency	Narwana
Personal details
Born	(1967-06-03) 3 June 1967 (age 56) Chandigarh, India
Political party	Indian National Congress
Spouse	Gayatri Surjewala
Children	Arjun, Aditya
Residence	Chandigarh

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Randeep Singh Surjewala was born in Chandigarh as the youngest and fourth child of Ch. Shamsher Singh Surjewala and Vidya Kulharia. His father was then Minister for Agriculture & Co-operatives of Haryana. He has three elder sisters – Madhu Dalal, Poonam Chaudhery and Neeru.

He went to Adarsh Bal Mandir and Arya Higher Secondary School, Narwana. He did his Bachelor of Commerce (Hons.) (1981–85) from DAV School and his Bachelor of Law degree (1985–88) from Faculty of Law, Punjab University, Chandigarh. During his years in law faculty, he remained member of the consultative committee of the faculty as also chairman of the Lawyer's Forum. He also earned his master's degree in political science by the same university in April 1995.^[5]

His father was expelled from Yadvindra State High School by the ruler of Sangrur for espousing the agenda of Indian National Congress.

In September 1957, his father started his law practice as an ace lawyer specializing in criminal law and jurisprudence but amiably graduated to grassroots politics. He was first elected as managing director of Central Co-operative Bank, Sangur, in 1959–1960 and then as chairman of Panchayat Samiti, Kalayat (now in District Kaithal) in 1961 and again in 1964.

Randeep’s father is also a veteran parliamentarian, having been elected to Haryana Legislative Assembly in 1967, 1977, 1982, 1991 and 2005 and to Indian Parliament in 1993.

Surjewala married Gayatri in December 1991 and has two sons Arjun and Aditya.^{[citation needed]}