Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer

Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer is a member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly from Barnala constituency. He is a cabinet minister in Punjab. He won the 2017 legislative election on Aam Aadmi Party by defeating Congress candidate Kewal Singh Dhillon.[1] He is a cabinet minister in the Mann ministry, in charge of the Department of School Education, Department of Sports and Youth Services and Department of Higher Education and Languages.[2][3]

Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer
Education Minister, Government of Punjab
Assumed office
19 March 2022
GovernorBanwarilal Purohit
Chief MinisterBhagwant Mann
Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
11 March 2017
Preceded byKewal Singh Dhillon
ConstituencyBarnala
Personal details
Born (1989-04-21) 21 April 1989
Barnala, Punjab, India
NationalityIndian
Political partyAam Aadmi Party
OccupationPolitician

He is currently serving as youth wing incharge of Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab.[4]

Member of Legislative Assembly

Hayer was elected as the MLA in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. He represented the Barnala Assembly Constituency in the Punjab Legislative Assembly. He took oath as a cabinet minister along with nine other MLAs on 19 March at Guru Nanak Dev auditorium of Punjab Raj Bhavan in Chandigarh.[5][6]

As a cabinet minister in the Mann ministry, Hayer was given the charge of three departments of the Punjab Government:[7]

  1. Department of School Education
  2. Department of Sports and Youth Services
  3. Department of Higher Education and Languages

Electoral Performance
Assembly election, 2017: Barnala[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AAP Meet Hayer 47,606 35.49
INC Kewal Singh Dhillon 45,174 33.67
SAD Surinder Pal Singh Sibia 31,111 23.19
SAD(M) Simranjit Singh Mann 5,061 3.77
BSP Paramjit Kaur 2,369 1.77
None of the Above NOTA 889 0.66
Registered electors 171,962 [9]
AAP gain from INC
Assembly election, 2022: Barnala
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AAP Meet Hayer 64,800 49.27
SAD Kulwant Singh Keetu 27,178 20.66
INC Manish Bansal[10] 16,853 12.81
NOTA None of the Above 855 0.65
Majority 37,622
Turnout 131,532
Registered electors 182,502 [11]
AAP hold

References
  1. "Kewal Dhillon defeated - AAP candidate Meet Hayer wins Barnala Assembly Poll". Retrieved 31 May 2018.
  2. "The playing 11: CM Bhagwant Mann's cabinet ministers". The Indian Express. 20 March 2022. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  3. "Mann keeps Home, 26 others, gives Finance to Cheema; Mines to Bains". 22 March 2022. Archived from the original on 23 March 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  4. "Akalis defaming farmers: AAP". Tribuneindia News Service. 22 September 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  5. "Ten Punjab ministers to take oath on Saturday". Tribuneindia News Service. 18 March 2022. Archived from the original on 18 March 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  6. "25,000 Government Jobs For Punjab: New Chief Minister's 1st Decision". NDTV.com. Press Trust of India. 19 March 2022. Archived from the original on 19 March 2022. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  7. "Punjab portfolios announced; CM Mann keeps Home and Vigilance, Cheema gets Finance, Singla Health, Harbhajan Power". Tribuneindia News Service. 21 March 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  8. Election Commission of India. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2017". Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  9. Chief Electoral Officer - Punjab. "Electors and Polling Stations - VS 2017" (PDF). Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  10. "Punjab Elections 2022: Full list of Congress Candidates and their Constituencies". FE Online. No. The Financial Express (India). The Indian Express Group. 18 February 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  11. "Vidhan Sabha 2022 Electoral Detail". Official Website of the Chief Electoral Officer, Punjab. Chief Electoral Officer, Punjab. Retrieved 27 March 2022.


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