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Manwinder Singh

Politician from Punjab, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ111204515 ↗
Source-derived summary

Manwinder Singh Giaspura is an Indian politician and the MLA representing the Payal Assembly constituency in the Punjab Legislative Assembly. He is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party. He was elected as the MLA in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election.

Career

Giaspura has been whistle blower in unearthing 1984 Hondh-Chillar massacre in Haryana.

Member of Legislative Assembly

He represents the Payal Assembly constituency as MLA in Punjab Assembly. The Aam Aadmi Party gained a strong 79% majority in the sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly by winning 92 out of 117 seats in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. MP Bhagwant Mann was sworn in as Chief Minister on 16 March 2022.

Committee assignments of Punjab Legislative Assembly

Member (2022–23) Committee on Public Undertakings

Member (2022–23) Committee on Panchayati Raj Institutions

Electoral performance

References

External links

"Election Commission of India". affidavit.eci.gov.in. Retrieved 12 March 2022.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Manwinder Singh” is politician from Punjab, India. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Manwinder, Singh and Politician, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Manwinder, Singh and Politician is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “politician from Punjab, India” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q111204515. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Manwinder Singh” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.