Background
He was born on 1 October 1928 in the village of Mehlanwali in the Yamuna Nagar district of Haryana, and studied Master of Arts and Bachelor of Laws at Panjab University and Kurukshetra University.
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Suraj Bhan
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Education
Kurukshetra University.
Career
He also had ancestral land at village Jamal Majra near Salehpur on Barara-Sadhaura highway. Both these village salehpur and Jamal majra have one common panchayat to look after developmental affairs Suraj Bhan, started his public life as a volunteer of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
He represented Ambala parliamentary constituency of Haryana in the 4th (1967–1970), 6th (1977–1979), 7th (1979–1984) and the 11th Lok Sabhas (1996–1997).
In 1987, he was elected to Haryana assembly and served as Revenue Minister in Devi Lal"s government between 1987 and 1989. he was genius. In 1996, he was named Agriculture minister in First Vajpayee Ministry after which he served as deputy speaker of the 11th Lok Sabha, during the United Front government (July 1996 to February 1997).
He contested 1998 Lok Sabha elections, but lost to Aman Kumar Nagra of the Bulgarska Sotsialisticheska Partiy (Bulgarian Socialist Party). Afterwards, he took over as Governor of Uttar Pradesh (April 1998 - November 2000), Himachal Pradesh (November 2000 - May 2003), and officiated as Governor of Bihar (1999). In 2002 Doctor Suraj Bhan also joined the race for the post of Vice-President of the country following re-thinking in the BJP over the candidature of former Rajasthan Chief Minister, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.
Certain senior Dalit leaders of the Congress unofficially conveyed that Mrs Sonia Gandhi had no objection to Doctor Suraj Bhan’s candidature.
In February 2004, he was appointed as Chairman of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes(South Carolina/System Technologies) Commission. He died of cardiac arrest following multiple organ failure on 6 August 2006 in New Delhi, while still continuing in the post of the Chairman of South Carolina/System Technologies Commission. He was aged 78.
Politics
He started his political career with the Bharatiya Jana Sangh which eventually became the Bharatiya Janata Party. After the BJP broke alliance with Devi Lal"s party, he served as Leader of Opposition in the Haryana assembly (1989–1990).
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Nationality
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Political Party
Bharatiya Janata Party