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Romesh Chander Dogra

politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ25927178 ↗
Source-derived summary

Romesh Chander Dogra was an Indian politician from the state of Punjab. He was a minister in the Punjab government and the deputy speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly.

Constituency

Dogra represented the Dasuya assembly constituency and was a four-term member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly from 1985 to 2007.

Political Party

Dogra was a member of Indian National Congress.

Death

Dogra died on 23 April 2013.

Editorial summary

“Romesh Chander Dogra” enters the record as politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Romesh, Chander and Dogra can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 2007, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Romesh, Chander and Dogra.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Romesh Chander Dogra” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Romesh, Chander and Dogra provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25927178. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1985, 2007 and 2013.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Romesh Chander Dogra” 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.