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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Charanjit Singh Atwal
| image =File:The Deputy Speaker, Lok Sabha, Shri Charanjit Singh Atwal delivering the inaugural address at the 24th Parliamentary Internship Programme for foreign parliamentary officials, in New Delhi on November 03, 2008 (cropped).png
| caption =
| birth_date ={{Birth date and age|1937|3|15|df=y}}
| birth_place =[[Sahiwal|Montgomery]], [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]], [[British India]]
| residence =[[Ludhiana]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| office = 13th [[Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha]]
| term_start = 9 June 2004
| term_end = 18 May 2009
| predecessor = [[P.M. Sayeed]]
| successor = [[Karia Munda]]
| office1 = [[List of Speakers of the Punjab Legislative Assembly|Speaker of Punjab assembly]]
| term_start1 = 4 March 1997
| term_end1 = 20 March 2002
| successor1 =[[Kewal Krishan]]
| predecessor1 =Dilbagh Singh Daleke
| term_start2 =20 March 2012
| term_end2 = 27 March 2017
| predecessor2 =[[Nirmal Singh Kahlon]]
| successor2 = [[Rana K. P. Singh]]
| party =[[Shiromani Akali Dal|SAD]]
| children = [[Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal]]
| website = {{url|charanjitsinghatwal.in}}
| footnotes =
| date = 22 September |
| year = 2006 |
| source = https://web.archive.org/web/20060615054707/http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=4127
}}

'''Charanjit Singh Atwal''' (born 15 March 1937) is an Indian politician who was Deputy Speaker of the [[14th Lok Sabha]] of [[India]] from 2004 to 2009. He represented the [[Phillaur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Phillaur constituency]] of [[Punjab (India)|Punjab]] in the 14th Lok Sabha and is a member of the [[Shiromani Akali Dal]] (SAD) political party.

He was Speaker of the [[Punjab Legislative Assembly]] from 1997 to 2002 and again from 2012 to 2017.

==Early life==
Charanjit Singh Atwal was born to a [[Sikh]] family<ref>{{Cite web|title=Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 8 - RECOGNIZING THE SPEAKER OF THE PUNJAB STATE ASSEMBLY HONORABLE SARDAR CHARANJIT SINGH ATWAL|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRECB-2001-pt8/html/CRECB-2001-pt8-Pg11493-2.htm|access-date=2020-10-14|website=www.govinfo.gov}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">''Congressional Record, V. 147, Pt. 8, 12 June 2001 to 25 June 2001 p11493''</ref> in [[Sahiwal|Montgomery]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab Province]], [[British India]] (Punjab in [[Pakistan]] after partition in 1947). Sardar Atwal's family, like many Punjabis migrated to Indian Punjab as refugees<ref name="ReferenceA"/> when they found themselves living on the wrong side of the border. He graduated from GGN Khalsa College, [[Ludhiana]] and then obtained his LLB degree from Panjab University, [[Chandigarh]].

==Political life==
Sardar Charanjit Singh Atwal was a member of the [[Lok Sabha]] from 1985 to 1989. He was then Speaker of the Punjab Assembly from 1997 to 2002. He is a respected member of the Indian Parliament for 20 years<ref name="ReferenceA"/> and has over 40 years of service in politics. He has been in the field of politics since 1957 and was elected to the [[Punjab Legislative Assembly|Punjab State Assembly]] in 1977.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> He is considered among the top hierarchy of the [[Shiromani Akali Dal]].<ref name="ReferenceA"/> In the 2001 election Sardar Atwal stood in the [[Phillaur (Lok Sabha constituency)|Phillaur constituency]] and crushed his political rival Santosh Chowdhury of the [[Indian National Congress]] by a huge margin of 98,884 votes.<ref>Mahendra Singh Rana. (2006) India Votes: Lok Sabha & Vidhan Sabha Elections 2001-2005. Sarup & Sons publishing. p372</ref> Santosh Chowdhury was the previous 1999 election winner, winning by what was then a large margin of 26,573 votes.<ref>Mahendra Singh Rana. (2006) India Votes: Lok Sabha & Vidhan Sabha Elections 2001-2005. Sarup & Sons publishing</ref>

From 1997 to 2000 he was Chairman of the Committee on Welfare of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes. He was jailed during the [[The Emergency (India)|1975-77 emergency]].

He has served as Speaker of Punjab Legislative Assembly for a second time since 2012.

==Personal life==

Sardar Charanjit.S.Atwal is married to Inderjit Kaur, with whom he has two sons, [[Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal]] (also a politician & businessman) and Jasjeet Singh Atwal and three daughters, Dr. Kulminderjit Kaur, Parminderjit Kaur and Tripat Kaur Atwal.Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal has one son who is the eldest Azeez Atwal. Jasjeet Atwal has a pair of twins.

== References ==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060615054707/http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=4127 Members of Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Parliament of India website]

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