Education
Panjab University; University of Lucknow.
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He is a Dalit leader of the Indian National Congress party. He is also Chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and as such sits ex officio on the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). In July 2012, Punia appeared in the popular television show Satyamev Jayate, hosted by Bollywood star Aamir Khan, to raise awareness of discrimination against scheduled castes.
He was born on 23 January 1945 to Bharat Singh and Dakhan Devi in the Jhajjar district of the Punjab region (now Haryana), British India.
He took an Master of Arts from Panjab University, Chandigarh and a Doctor of Philosophy from Lucknow University, Uttar Pradesh. In 1970 he joined the Indian Administrative Service (Institute for Advanced Study ), becoming District Magistrate in Aligarh during 1982-1985.
Membership
He was member of the Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014 and represented Barabanki (Lok Sabha constituency).
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