Rajeev Bindal

Rajeev Bindal is fifth consecutive term member of the HP legislative assembly. He was President of Himachal Pradesh BJP and speaker of Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. He is member of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]. Bindal was a minister of health and family welfare in Government of Himachal Pradesh, India.[1]

Bindal is the son of the late Vaid Balmukund Bindal; born on 12 January 1955 at Solan. He is a fifth term MLA, presently from Nahan. He represented Solan constituency in Vidhan Sabha three times consecutively from 2000 - 2012. He was cabinet minister for health and family welfare in Himachal Pradesh Government from 2007–2012. He was unanimously elected as speaker of HP legislative assembly on January 10, 2018 at the inaugural session of 13th vidhan Sabha in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh.

He is a doctor by profession. Bindal started social service right from his college days. After graduation, he went to tribal areas of Bihar to serve as a doctor for three years. He established Himgiri Kalyan Ashram at Solan, a charitable institution where poor children are provided boarding and education free of cost.

Bindal has held the office of Chairperson of Municipal Committee of Solan from 1995–2000. He was elected MLA in 2000 and became the Chairman of HP State Pollution Control Board. He was re-elected as MLA in 2003 and 2007 from Solan. He joined the state cabinet as Minister for Health & Family Welfare from 2007 - 2012. After the Solan constituency got reserved, he contested elections from Nahan in Sirmaur district and got elected consecutively for two times. He became the Speaker of Himachal Pradesh legislative assembly, and occupied the constitutional post on January 10, 2018.

He spent two years as Speaker, and then moved to organisation by becoming the state president of BJP in January 2020. He was made the state BJP president by BJP national president Shree JP Nadda and he had to resign from HP Vidhan Sabha Speaker. He had to resign from this post too after he got involved in Pharmaceutical corruption case during COVID 19 pandemic.

References
  1. May 2014|work=Business Standard|accessdate=13 July 2012


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